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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... union contracts, that earlier forms of work had. Whereas work in the old economy assumed that a level of employee involvement, often through unions, was desirable (even if this occurred only at the level of ideology in many cases), in ...
... union can make a difference to people's experience of restructuring. We caution, however, that in communities underpinned by a conservative political culture this union in itself will not ensure an ideal work world. Looking at ...
... unions, leading to a higher rate of union membership than in the United States or Japan, but considerably lower than in most of Europe, Australia, and New Zealand (Krahn and Lowe 1998: 334–5), as well as the creation of a welfare state ...
... union avoidance' whereby firms increasingly 'out-source' production to non-unionized firms and/or individuals at home or abroad, while downsizing or shutting down unionized plants. Bluestone and Harrison argued in 1988 that as a result ...
... unions have had difficulty making inroads into rural areas, meeting with opposition from workers and others when they have ... union sentiment, is a valuable asset to firms seeking new locations. This should not imply, however, that the ...
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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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