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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... 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 particularly positive. In Chapter 6 we concentrate on the ...
... shift in the way the economy is structured.2 In Canada this shift is most evident after 1989, although elements of it had emerged earlier. This shift entails a substantial modification of what has come to be termed by political ...
... shift in the job structure towards 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 ...
... shifts in market income among Canadian families in the period 1973 to 1991. By 1991 the top richest Canadian families ... shift for some from full-time to part-time work, but especially fulltime workers having to work longer hours.9 In ...
... shifts are gendered in certain ways. Earlier research on restructuring suggested that while in some ways women's opportunities in the labour market would improve because of the kinds of structural shifts taking place which expand 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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