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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... early stages of this long project. The study was funded by two research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, including one through the Eco-Research Program of the Canadian Tri Council via the Agro ...
... early 1990s, although much deeper in Canada than had been anticipated, and indeed than has often been recognized, was followed by a period of relative prosperity in southern and eastern Ontario. While official unemployment rates for ...
... early retirements. In this community it is young people who are displaced, as the opportunities for entry into the well-paid jobs in the paper mill have shrunk to almost nothing in the past decade. Thus, the data we use for this ...
... earliest analyses of contingent work, Belous (1989) contrasts the contingent model of human resource management to the 'new deal' model. As he sees it, in the new deal model unions had a central role in the way human resource systems ...
... early competitive capitalist period, written about by Marx, Adam Smith, Ricardo, and J.S. Mill, was characterized by small firms. When this phase reached a crisis of falling profits, instead of being replaced by socialism, as Marx had ...
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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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