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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... income levels among workers. Following Burke and Shields (1999), we argue against reliance on official ways of measuring employment and unemployment, and argue that there are good reasons for the distinction between what the Economic ...
... income among Canadian families in the period 1973 to 1991. By 1991 the top richest Canadian families with children had increased their share of market income about 14 per cent, while the income share of the poorest 10 per cent of ...
... income. We explicitly asked about pay before and after lay-off, and details of employmentrelated benefits. Most people were willing to supply that information. We also asked how workers had been treated by unions and company management ...
... incomes here, compared with small agriculturalists in other countries, particularly in Europe. Relatively high farm cash incomes also made it possible for farm families to purchase all manner of consumer goods, and agricultural ...
... incomes that such work provides. It was a real loss to the community, then, when the parent firm in the United States decided to close the plant as part of wider efforts to pay for disastrous management decisions made in the late 1980s ...
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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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