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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... the relationship between global economic processes and everyday life. Against this literature we have found ourselves worrying about what happens to people, like the woman quoted above, caught up in these CHAPTER ONEIntroduction.
... women's labour in third world factories (Elson and Pearson 1981; Lim 1985), and in industrial homework throughout the world (Boris and Prugl 1996). For monopolistic resource and heavy manufacturing industries as well as the highly ...
... women who had left high school in 1992. These people told us about their work and education histories and, in some cases, about their prospects for work in Iroquois Falls. In Chapter 5 we look at what might be considered objective data ...
... women, older and younger workers, the infirm, and those with few credentialed skills – and how attachment to rural localities, while potentially sustaining them, has the simultaneous effect of ensuring the contingent labour force that ...
... women. June Nash's work (1989) on Pittsfield, Massachusetts, addresses the implications for life and politics after the demise of a major employer in a context where corporate hegemony has been secure for most of the twentieth century.
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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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