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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... trends affecting work in real communities and people as workers struggling to survive the globalization they confront every day. This book emerges, as we believe the best of scholarly and creative work always does, from deeply held ...
... trend for firms to out-source more and more of the work previously done by its core labour force has exacerbated the growth of the two-tiered labour market within industries and firms. The automobile industry is a prime example of this ...
... trends indicates that these types of jobs are particularly concentrated in what has been termed the 'traditional ... trend has even accelerated in more recent years. They also present data that indicates dramatic shifts in market ...
... trends noted above were not of a cyclical economic nature and could possibly be reversed in the near future. We did lean towards the view of the well known study by the Economic Council of Canada that took the position, even before the ...
... Trends in unemployment are all the more disconcerting when we appreciate, as James Rinehart reminds us, that the significance of work today goes far beyond mere survival and the size of one's pay-cheque. 'Unemployment erodes personal ...
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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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