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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... particularly positive. In Chapter 6 we concentrate on the narratives of the people we talked to, looking at what happens in people's day-to-day lives as a result of restructuring, and how daily routines are affected as people struggle ...
... particularly examining Atlantic Canada, but also looking at the Prairies and the North, has emerged in an attempt to better understand the crisis in underdeveloped areas, and to address policy and economic options (see Drache and ...
... particularly useful for understanding the apparent political acquiescence that often accompanies a plant closure. Gaventa (1990) also addresses the issue of acquiescence, in terms of Appalachian peoples' perceptions of powerlessness in ...
... particularly germane to the processes and outcomes at the community level that form our principal concern in this book. Underlying these changes to the structure of employment has been the incessant drive by corporations to increase ...
... particularly rich for the United States (see Bluestone and Harrison 1982, 1988; Noyelle 1987; Rodwin 1989; Ross and Trachte 1990). Evidence is less abundant for Canada, but a few important studies suggest the emerging pattern. Like ...
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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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