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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... Contingent Work World 6 'Forget All Your Dreams and Good Luck with Your Life': Lay-Off and the New Reality of Contingent Labour 7 Economic Diversity, Sustainability, and Manufacturing Communities 8 Some Concluding Thoughts Notes ...
... workers in extraction industries such as mining and large-scale manufacturing such as steelmaking (Corman et al. 1993), of women's labour in third world factories (Elson and Pearson 1981; Lim 1985), and in industrial homework throughout the ...
... work world' to a 'contingent work world.' The notion of contingent work has been used quite extensively in the literature over the past decade or so. Usually it is one of a number of terms, along with, for example, non-standard work or ...
... work arrangements and conditions, as government involvement in these issues is reduced (1989: 95). Our use of the term 'contingent work world' tries to emphasize both the dependent nature of jobs in the new economy and the way in which ...
Labour and Community in the New Rural Economy Belinda Leach, Anthony Winson. contingent work we see people's lives become ever-more contingent ... world. Looking at unemployed steelworkers' attempts (and ultimate failure) to intervene into ...
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CHAPTER THREECommunity Sketches History and Method | |
CHAPTER FOURThe New Rural Economy and the Shape of Restructuring | |
CHAPTER FIVESkidding into the Contingent Work World | |
LayOff and the New Reality of Contingent Labour | |
CHAPTER SEVENEconomic Diversity Sustainability and Manufacturing Communities | |
CHAPTER EIGHTSome Concluding Thoughts | |
Notes | |
Glossary | |
References | |
Index | |
Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy | |
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