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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... major imperatives: (1) to manufacture locally the inputs necessary for agriculture; (2) to process agricultural produce into commodities and market them efficiently to local communities; and (3) to utilize the rural labour force which ...
... major argument is that the new economy involves a fundamental shift in the stability and security of people's lives, which goes far beyond simply new work arrangements, ultimately changing lives in ways that neither we nor they see as ...
... major employer. Our findings are not consistent with the predictions in the literature. We consider the limitations to an economistic approach to looking at community diversity and argue for a more social approach. We look specifically ...
... major British locality study, writes that this research was intended to address the complexity of the geography of restructuring in the 1980s. As she put it 'something that might be called “restructuring” was clearly going on, but its ...
... major employers and its effects on gender relations, labour processes, political affiliations, and forms of consciousness are examined by Corman et al. (1993; see also Leach 1998) for Stelco in Hamilton steelworkers, and by Mawhiney and ...
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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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