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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... manufacturing jobs have been lost or gained during a specific period. Much more difficult to determine, however, is how changes in job opportunities affect different kinds of communities, and for our purposes, rural ones in particular ...
... manufacturing jobs will be quickly picked up by expanding 'new' industries. Thus, we decided to find out what happened, through interviews with workers laid off from Weavexx in Arnprior. For Iroquois Falls, industrial restructuring was ...
... production in the late twentieth century. The theoretical debate this book ... jobs (although this will likely return as an issue in the next recession) ... manufacturing in small rural communities and affecting the lives of the ...
... jobs with the loss of manufacturing work in rural Vermont. Canadian studies of the local effects of capital restructuring follow the tradition of Canadian political economy observing the very different effects and outcomes for disparate ...
... employment. These include gendered impacts, different outcomes for various age groups seeking employment, for the quality ... manufacturing jobs found themselves skidding into unemployment, skidding completely out of the labour force, or ...
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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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