Contingent Work, Disrupted Lives: Labour and Community in the New Rural EconomyUniversity of Toronto Press, 2002 M11 23 - 192 páginas Contingent Work, Disrupted Lives examines the repercussions of economic globalization on several manufacturing-dependent rural communities in Canada. Foregrounding a distinct interest in the 'grassroots' effects of such contemporary corporate strategies as plant closures and downsizing, authors Anthony Winson and Belinda Leach consider the impact of this restructuring on the residents of various communities. The authors argue that the new rural economy involves a fundamental shift in the stability and security of people's lives and, ultimately, it causes wrenching change and an arduous struggle as rural dwellers struggle to rebuild their lives in the new economic terrain. Beginning with broader theoretical and empirical literature on global changes in the economy and the effects of these changes on labour, the text then focuses exploration on manufacturing in Ontario with an analysis of five community case studies. Winson and Leach give considerable attention to the testimony of numerous residents; they report on in-depth interviews with key respondents and blue-collar workers in five separate communities, ranging from diverse manufacturing towns to single-industry settlements. The result is an intimate contextual knowledge of the workers' lives and their attempts to adapt to the tumultuous economic terrain of 1990s rural Canada. Winner of the John Porter Prize for 2003, awarded by the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association. |
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... communities in Canada. In looking at such contemporary corporate strategies ... Ontario with an analysis of five community case studies. Winson and Leach ... communities, ranging from diverse manufacturing towns to single-industry ...
... Ontario. 2. Displaced workers – Ontario. 3. Rural industries – Ontario. 4. Working class – Ontario. 5. Deindustrialization – Ontario. 6 ... Canada Cataloguing in Publication Map 1. Location of communities discussed in the study.
... communities are among the most ordinary and unremarkable people we could choose as our focus. In many ways there is ... Ontario. While official unemployment rates for some parts of Canada are still high, by the late 1990s southern Ontario ...
... communities in Wellington County, Ontario, and has been reported in a number of publications (Winson 1993; Leach and Winson 1995; Winson 1997; Leach and Winson 1999; Leach 1999). In 1997 we expanded the study to include two additional ...
... communities, and for our purposes, rural ones in particular. Consequently, we report in Chapter 4 on an intensive study of changes in the manufacturing job picture for thirty-nine rural communities in Ontario whose population is between ...
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The New Rural Economy and the Shape of Restructuring | 73 |
Skidding into the Contingent Work World | 113 |
Economic Diversity Sustainability | 155 |
Some Concluding Thoughts | 174 |
Notes | 187 |
Glossary | 201 |
Index | 221 |
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