Capitalism Rebooted?
Work, Welfare, and the New Economy
Published on 1. January 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
186 pages
978-1-55266-211-3 (ISBN)
Description
The so-called New Economy, based on huge advances in information and communication technologies, economic globalization and neoliberalism, promised to expand economic opportunities and growth, provide stimulating and well-paid jobs, reduce inequalities and develop the Third World. But the experiences of the past two decades have hardly been positive for workers and their families. While there have been significant economic and workplace changes, these changes have not been the boon to working people that was predicted. In fact, as the authors of this book show, there is significant unemployment and underemployment, including for knowledge workers. Management strategies continue to be authoritarian, and work presents new dangers to our health. Meanwhile, social services have been ripped apart. "New Economy" is simply the name being given to current attempts to reboot a very old and exploitative economic system. However, there are signs a truly new economy is possible, as trade unions, working people and progressive social movements continue the struggle for social justice.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Black Point, Nova Scotia
Canada
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 23 mm
Width: 15 mm
Thickness: 1 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-55266-211-3 (9781552662113)
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Wayne Antony (he/him) is a publisher at Fernwood Publishing. He is a founding member of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Manitoba (CCPA-MB) and a board member since its inception in 1997. He has worked with other Winnipeg political activist organizations, the Socialist Education Centre and Thin Ice. Wayne also taught sociology at the University of Winnipeg for eighteen years. He is co-author of three reports on the state of public services in Manitoba (for CCAP-MB) and is co-editor of six editions of Power and Resistance: Critical Thinking About Canadian Social Issues, co-editor of Citizens or Consumers? Social Policy in a Market Society and Capitalism Rebooted? Work and Welfare in the New Economy (both with Dave Broad), and co-editor (with Julie Guard) of Bankruptcies and Bailouts.
Dave Broad was a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Social Studies at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan. He studied work and the labour market, and problems of world development and underdevelopment, and published and presented widely on these subjects. His research included analysis of the links between global economic restructuring and the casualization of labour, and related issues of poverty and social welfare
Dave Broad was a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Social Studies at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan. He studied work and the labour market, and problems of world development and underdevelopment, and published and presented widely on these subjects. His research included analysis of the links between global economic restructuring and the casualization of labour, and related issues of poverty and social welfare
Content
: Introduction
: The New Economy: Are All Our Woes Virtually Solved? (Dave Broad and Wayne Antony)
: Capitalism Rebooted: Is the New Economy Really all that New? (Dave Broad and Wayne Antony)
: Where's The Work? Labour Market Trends and the New Economy (Dave Broad, Jane Cruikshank, and James P. Mulvale)
: Managing Change: Organizational and Management Responses to the New Economy (Janice Foley)
: Lifelong Learning and the New Economy: Education or Ideology? (Jane Cruikshank)
: Stresses and Strains: Workers' Health and the New Economy (Michael Polanyi)
: From Welfare to Workfare: Public Policy for the New Economy (Garson Hunter and Dionne Miazdyck-Shield)
: Solidarity Forever in Cyberspace? Responses of the Labour Movement to Information and Communication Technologies (James P. Mulvale)
: New Economy or New Society? A Change Is Gonna Come (Dave Broad)
: The New Economy: Are All Our Woes Virtually Solved? (Dave Broad and Wayne Antony)
: Capitalism Rebooted: Is the New Economy Really all that New? (Dave Broad and Wayne Antony)
: Where's The Work? Labour Market Trends and the New Economy (Dave Broad, Jane Cruikshank, and James P. Mulvale)
: Managing Change: Organizational and Management Responses to the New Economy (Janice Foley)
: Lifelong Learning and the New Economy: Education or Ideology? (Jane Cruikshank)
: Stresses and Strains: Workers' Health and the New Economy (Michael Polanyi)
: From Welfare to Workfare: Public Policy for the New Economy (Garson Hunter and Dionne Miazdyck-Shield)
: Solidarity Forever in Cyberspace? Responses of the Labour Movement to Information and Communication Technologies (James P. Mulvale)
: New Economy or New Society? A Change Is Gonna Come (Dave Broad)