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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 22
... statistics. For example, over the past fifteen years the public has been bombarded by the media with figures telling ... Canada Packers in Elora and Harriston, and Weavexx in Arnprior. On the other hand, corporate strategies are also to ...
... Canada, Statistics Canada data for 1998 show a widening gap between rich and poor (Statistics Canada 2000). In one of the most comprehensive and in-depth treatise on the phenomenon of globalization to date, Petras and Veltmeyer (2001) ...
... Statistics Canada data for the period 1967 to 1986 found that there has been in fact a definite decline in the middle stratum of income earners, and of this 'declining middle' nearly threefifths were redistributed into the lower group ...
... Canada's major newspapers reported that the national economy was picking up and on the road to recovery by late 1993 ... Statistics Canada reports 15.4 per cent of the population as working in manufacturing, while almost 70 per cent were ...
... (Statistics Canada 1991). This may indicate that former employees of manufacturing firms once based in the community have opted to remain in Elora and commute elsewhere to industrial jobs. It also suggests that there may be more ...
Contenido
3 | |
13 | |
45 | |
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 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Contingent Work, Disrupted Lives: Labour and Community in the New Rural Economy Anthony Winson,Belinda Leach Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
Contingent Work, Disrupted Lives: Labour and Community in the New Rural Economy Anthony Winson,Belinda Leach Sin vista previa disponible - 2002 |