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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... labour force which was unaccustomed to industrial work and for which agricultural work would provide a fall-back. In our discussion of the histories of the communities we focus specifically on the history of manufacturing. Local ...
Labour and Community in the New Rural Economy Belinda Leach, Anthony Winson ... force corporate change in an increasingly competitive climate. This may lead ... labour market conditions, such as the educational attainment of workers, the ...
... 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 with the predictions in the ...
Labour and Community in the New Rural Economy Belinda Leach, Anthony Winson ... force. Canada has also protected some of its agricultural producers through ... labour force in a country with a limited supply. A second purpose of work in ...
... labour force to include previously non-industrial regions (Teeple 1995: 56–68). Gordon Laxer notes that much of what globalization signifies lies at the heart of the capitalist Enlightenment project over the past two hundred years. He ...
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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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