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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... industries as well as the highly competitive light industrial sector, labour continues to be critical to profitmaking, but in many cases it is also interchangeable, or, to put it another way, disposable. As service industries become ...
... service economy employment has accelerated and is now quite advanced. While the 'goods producing' sector, primary industries (agriculture, fishing, forestry, and mining) and manufacturing accounted for about 40 per cent of employment in ...
... service industries as well (Economic Council of Canada 1990: chart 7). Of course, it is precisely in these areas where most of the job growth in Canada is taking place, and where many ex-employees of the restructured manufacturing sector ...
... service sector women were more likely to be employed in the lower tier service industries, where the opportunities for women have been growing, particularly for part-time work. Armstrong discusses the rise in the number of self-employed ...
... service sectors concentrating financial institutions and information technology have developed. The decline of manufacturing activities in the context of rural upstate New York posed special problems because service sector growth that ...
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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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