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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... towns to single-industry settlements. The result is an intimate contextual portrait of the workers' lives and their attempts to adapt to the rocky economic terrain of rural Canada in the 1990s. ANTHONY WINSON and BELINDA LEACH are ...
... towns and villages as companies go global and introduce just-in-time production, and as states redefine their role.2 In this book we try to cut through the abstraction and breadth of much of the globalization literature, to look at ...
... town which recently welcomed a Goodyear tire factory. As historian Bryan Palmer (1994) documents the process, however, the welcome was largely constructed by the actions of the Goodyear company, which pursued a long process of courtship ...
... town or village on a regular basis. 15 The spatial or territorial dimension of the communities we study is a characteristic shared with the ecological perspective to community studies, and indeed we have some interest in the ...
... town.' Indeed, in Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, the Yukon, and the North West Territories, this group still comprises approximately 40 per cent or more of the population. In all provinces ...
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CHAPTER THREECommunity Sketches History and Method | |
CHAPTER FOURThe New Rural Economy and the Shape of Restructuring | |
CHAPTER FIVESkidding into the Contingent Work World | |
LayOff and the New Reality of Contingent Labour | |
CHAPTER SEVENEconomic Diversity Sustainability and Manufacturing Communities | |
CHAPTER EIGHTSome Concluding Thoughts | |
Notes | |
Glossary | |
References | |
Index | |
Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy | |
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