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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... Social aspects – Ontario. I. Leach, Belinda, 1954–. II. Title. III. Series. HD8106.5.W572002 331.1'09713'091734 C2002-901381-X This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of ...
... Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, including one through the Eco-Research Program of the Canadian Tri Council via the Agro-EcoSystem Health project at the University of Guelph. The University of Guelph also ...
... social justice and the potential for scholarly research to contribute to bringing it about. As in the previous writing of each of us, we make social class a central theme of the book. For us the most critical aspect of the present round ...
... social science analysis and in politics. Readers may feel that workers in small Ontario communities are among the most ordinary and unremarkable people we could choose as our focus. In many ways there is little romantic about their ...
... social assistance programs (Orr 1996). Christensen (1987) identifies conceptual problems with the use of the term 'contingent work' because it covers a wide range of work arrangements, lumping together such different dimensions of work ...
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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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