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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... factories (Elson and Pearson 1981; Lim 1985), and in industrial homework throughout the world (Boris and Prugl 1996). For monopolistic resource and heavy manufacturing industries as well as the highly competitive light industrial sector ...
... factory closure. In the chapters that follow we describe economic change and its effects in several manufacturing-dependent rural communities in Ontario. Global processes of economic restructuring are looked at in relation to the social ...
... factory. As historian Bryan Palmer (1994) documents the process, however, the welcome was largely constructed by the actions of the Goodyear company, which pursued a long process of courtship with the town before deciding to settle down ...
... of labour in industry and the invention of steam power allowed nascent capitalists to concentrate production in large modern factory establishments in the larger towns (see Mantoux Why Manufacturing-Dependent Rural Communities?
... factory establishments in the larger towns (see Mantoux 1961: Chapter 1 and Thirsk 1984: Chapter 13). Manufacturing ... factories in the countryside were supplemented with agricultural implement manufacturers, furniture factories ...
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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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