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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... effects of economic globalization on several manufacturing-dependent rural communities in Canada. In looking at such contemporary corporate strategies as plant closures and downsizing, authors Anthony Winson and Belinda Leach consider ...
... effects in several manufacturing-dependent rural communities in Ontario. Global processes of economic restructuring are looked at in relation to the social fabric of rural communities. We present a detailed analysis of power, interests ...
... effect of ensuring the contingent labour force that the new economy requires. In Chapter 7 we ask whether economic diversity actually matters when communities face the crisis of losing a major employer. Our findings are not consistent ...
... effect of international markets on people and communities' (Drache 1995: xiv). His staple theory argues that Canada's economic and cultural development was highly dependent on the export of staple goods (cod, lumber, and furs). As T ...
... effects on local communities. Wolf's work had the double effect of liberating anthropology from its preoccupation with bounded cultures and societies, while at the same time drawing attention outside the discipline to the importance of ...
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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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