Working in a Global Era, 2nd Edition: Canadian Perspectives
Editat de Vivian Shallaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 oct 2011
New to this edition:
- All new content: 14 up-to-date chapters reflecting the current state of research on work in Canada
- New section on informal care work
- More workplace-based chapters that provide a view "from the shop floor"
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781551303963
ISBN-10: 1551303965
Pagini: 408
Dimensiuni: 171 x 247 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.67 kg
Ediția:2 Rev ed.
Editura: Canadian Scholars Press
Colecția Canadian Scholars Press (CA)
ISBN-10: 1551303965
Pagini: 408
Dimensiuni: 171 x 247 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.67 kg
Ediția:2 Rev ed.
Editura: Canadian Scholars Press
Colecția Canadian Scholars Press (CA)
Recenzii
"This book will make an important contribution, filling a gap in the scholarly publications on work in this country. This is an exciting collection of readings that will convey some of the most pressing issues that now confront us as students, workers, and citizens."-- Pamela Sugiman, McMaster University
Cuprins
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
Section I: Contextualizing the Transformation of Work: Globalization and Neoliberalism
Chapter 1: Capitalism Rebooted? The New Economy Might Not Be All That New
Dave Broad and Wayne Antony
Chapter 2: The Neoliberal Rollback in Historical Perspective
Thom Workman
Section II: The Reorganization of Work in the Manufacturing and Service Sectors
Chapter 3: Auto Workers' Learning in Lean Production
David W. Livingstone and Olivia Wilson
Chapter 4: Dialling for Service: Transforming the Public Sector Workplace in Canada
Norene J. Pupo and Andrea Noack
Section III: The Increasing Precariousness of Work and the Flexibilization of Working Time
Chapter 5: Precarious Work, Privatization, and the Health-Care Industry: The Case of Ancillary Workers
Pat Armstrong and Kate Laxer
Chapter 6: Shifting Temporalities: Economic Restructuring and the Politics of Working Time
Vivian Shalla
Section IV: Racialization, Labour Migration, and Transformed Labour Markets
Chapter 7: Racializing Work/Reproducing White Privilege
Gillian Creese
Chapter 8: Labour Migration and Temporary Work:Canada's Foreign-Worker Programs in the "New Economy"
Mark Thomas
Section V: Experiencing and Responding to Workplace andLabour Market Restructuring
Chapter 9: Flows, Eddies, Swamps, and Whirlpools: Inequality and the Experience of Work Change
Janet Siltanen, Alette Willis, and Willow Scobie
Chapter 10: "Doing Something Meaningful": Gender and Public Service during MunicipalGovernment Restructuring
Diana Worts, Bonnie Fox, and Peggy McDonough
Section VI: Informal Care Work and the Balancing of Paid Work and Family Responsibilities
Chapter 11: Mr. Dithers Comes to Dinner: Telework and the Merging of Women's Work andHome Domains in Canada
Laura C. Johnson, Jean Audrey, and Susan M. Shaw
Chapter 12: Friends, Neighbours, and Community: A Case Study of the Role of Informal Caregiving in Social Reproduction
Meg Luxton
Section VII: Union Renewal and Alternative Organizing Strategies
Chapter 13: Cross-Constituency Organizing: A Vehicle for Union Renewal
Linda Briskin
Chapter 14: Renewal from Different Directions: The Case of UNITE-HERE Local 75
Steven Tufts
Introduction
Section I: Contextualizing the Transformation of Work: Globalization and Neoliberalism
Chapter 1: Capitalism Rebooted? The New Economy Might Not Be All That New
Dave Broad and Wayne Antony
Chapter 2: The Neoliberal Rollback in Historical Perspective
Thom Workman
Section II: The Reorganization of Work in the Manufacturing and Service Sectors
Chapter 3: Auto Workers' Learning in Lean Production
David W. Livingstone and Olivia Wilson
Chapter 4: Dialling for Service: Transforming the Public Sector Workplace in Canada
Norene J. Pupo and Andrea Noack
Section III: The Increasing Precariousness of Work and the Flexibilization of Working Time
Chapter 5: Precarious Work, Privatization, and the Health-Care Industry: The Case of Ancillary Workers
Pat Armstrong and Kate Laxer
Chapter 6: Shifting Temporalities: Economic Restructuring and the Politics of Working Time
Vivian Shalla
Section IV: Racialization, Labour Migration, and Transformed Labour Markets
Chapter 7: Racializing Work/Reproducing White Privilege
Gillian Creese
Chapter 8: Labour Migration and Temporary Work:Canada's Foreign-Worker Programs in the "New Economy"
Mark Thomas
Section V: Experiencing and Responding to Workplace andLabour Market Restructuring
Chapter 9: Flows, Eddies, Swamps, and Whirlpools: Inequality and the Experience of Work Change
Janet Siltanen, Alette Willis, and Willow Scobie
Chapter 10: "Doing Something Meaningful": Gender and Public Service during MunicipalGovernment Restructuring
Diana Worts, Bonnie Fox, and Peggy McDonough
Section VI: Informal Care Work and the Balancing of Paid Work and Family Responsibilities
Chapter 11: Mr. Dithers Comes to Dinner: Telework and the Merging of Women's Work andHome Domains in Canada
Laura C. Johnson, Jean Audrey, and Susan M. Shaw
Chapter 12: Friends, Neighbours, and Community: A Case Study of the Role of Informal Caregiving in Social Reproduction
Meg Luxton
Section VII: Union Renewal and Alternative Organizing Strategies
Chapter 13: Cross-Constituency Organizing: A Vehicle for Union Renewal
Linda Briskin
Chapter 14: Renewal from Different Directions: The Case of UNITE-HERE Local 75
Steven Tufts