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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... shutting down unionized plants. Bluestone and Harrison argued in 1988 that as a result of the success in implementing these strategies, of the one in three American workers that was represented by a trade union after the Second World ...
... shutting down operations altogether and moving south to the United States or Mexico. 13 Our concern with the micro level of analysis will be focused on the 'working through' of these trends at the level of manufacturing rural ...
... shutdown of numerous manufacturing operations in the industrial heartland of Canada.17 In this process rural communities were often hard hit (see Winson 1993: Chapter 8, and Leach and Winson 1995). Fitchen's study (1991) of upstate New ...
... , have been able to batter down workers' wages some 40 per cent in acrimonious labour struggles, effectively using the threat of plant shutdown to their advantage. The experience and consequences of this form of industrialization in.
... shutdowns and job loss worse. Accounts in Canada's major newspapers reported that the national economy was picking up and on the road to recovery by late 1993 to 1994. Interviews conducted in 1996 and later in the 1990s show that this ...
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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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