Changing Canada
Political Economy as Transformation
1st Edition
Published on 3. March 2003
536 pages
978-0-7735-7099-3 (ISBN)
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Changing Canada examines political transformations, welfare state restructuring, international boundaries and contexts, the new urban experience, and creative resistance.
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Wallace Clement is Chancellor's Professor at Carleton University. Leah F. Vosko is Canada Research Chair in Feminist Political Economy, York University.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART ONE: POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS
- 1 Politics in the Time and Space of Globalization
- 2 Transformative Politics, the State, and the Politics of Social Change in Quebec
- 3 Decolonization and Recolonization in Canada
- 4 Social Movements and Transformation
- PART TWO: WELFARE STATE RESTRUCTURING: SHIFTING EMPLOYMENT FORMS AND NEW HOUSEHOLD FORMS
- 5 Politics and Transformation: Welfare State Restructuring in Canada
- 6 No Minor Matter: The Political Economy of Childcare in Canada
- 7 Pay Equity: Complexity and Contradiction in Legal Rights and Social Processes
- 8 Gender Paradoxes and the Rise of Contingent Work: Towards a Transformative Political Economy of the Labour Market
- PART THREE: INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARIES AND CONTEXTS
- 9 Beyond the Continentalist/Nationalist Divide: Politics in a North America "without Borders
- 10 "Playin' Along": Canada and Global Finance
- 11 Toward a North American Common Currency
- 12 The Transformation of Communication in Canada
- PART FOUR: THE NEW URBAN EXPERIENCE
- 13 Municipal Restructuring, Urban Services and the Potential for the Creation of Transformative Political Spaces
- 14 The Urban Experience and Globalization
- 15 Immigration, Ethnicity, and Race: The Transformation of Transnationalism, Localism, and Identities
- PART FIVE: CREATIVE SITES OF RESISTANCE: ECOLOGY, LABOUR, YOUTH, AND POPULAR CULTURE
- 16 Ecology, Political Economy, and Social Transformation
- 17 Canadian Labour and the Political Economy of Transformation
- 18 Towards a "Cultural" Political Economy of Canadian Youth
- 19 Finding Godot? Bringing Popular Culture into Canadian Political Economy
- Contributors
