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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... organizations. Chapter 4 focuses on what we might see as top-down strategies of restructuring. Chapters 5 and 6 then turn to the people caught up in these processes and look at what happens to them. We use the concept of 'displaced ...
... which are essential to understand societal change. It has implications, at the very least, for the organization of work and the deployment of CHAPTER TWOThe Global and the Local: Understanding Globalization through Community Research.
... organization of work and the deployment of workers, for the viability of communities and the persistence of uneven forms of development, for the emergence and demise of social movements, for the pace of technological innovation and, not ...
... organization and opportunities in Windsor, a small industrialized border city, heavily dependent on the automobile industry, and Kingston, a smaller city, with an economy more diversified around the public sector (including eight ...
... organizational, political, and ideological – that make up this process have produced a qualitative shift in the way ... organization.3 As Moody (1997: Chapter 5) argues, many of the changes to the organization of work entailed the ...
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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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