Work in Tumultuous Times
Canadian Perspectives
1st Edition
Published on 22. June 2014
448 pages
978-0-7735-7722-0 (ISBN)
Description
This interdisciplinary volume offers a powerful critique of how social structures and relations as well as ideologies shape workplaces, labour markets, and households in contemporary Canada. Contributors dissect recent transformations in work and expose the uncertainty, insecurity, and instability that increasingly characterize both paid and unpaid work.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Montreal, QC
United States
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
illustrations
File size
3,40 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7735-7722-0 (9780773577220)
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Persons
Vivian Shalla is associate professor, sociology, University of Guelph, and the editor of Working in a Global Era: Canadian Perspectives. Wallace Clement is Chancellor's Professor of Sociology and Political Economy, Carleton University, and the co-author
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- 1 Theoretical Reflections on Work: A Quarter-Century of Critical Thinking
- 2 Methodological Considerations: Thinking about Researching Work
- 3 Gendered Labour Market Insecurities: Manifestations of Precarious Employment in Different Locations
- 4 Employment Strain, Precarious Employment, and Temporary Employment Agencies
- 5 Contradictions of Labour Processes and Workers' Use of Skills in Advanced Capitalist Economies
- 6 Industrial Work in a Post-Industrial Age
- 7 Racializing Work/Reproducing White Privilege
- 8 Shifting Temporalities: Economic Restructuring and the Politics of Working Time
- 9 Social Reproduction and the Changing Dynamics of Unpaid Household and Caregiving Work
- 10 Blurring the Distinction between Public and Private Spheres: The Commodification of Household Work - Gender, Class, Community, and Global Dimensions
- 11 Doubtful Data: Why Paradigms Matter in Counting the Health-Care Labour Force
- 12 Social Citizenship and the Transformation of Paid Work: Reflections on Possibilities for Progressive Change
- 13 Remaking the Canadian Labour Movement: Transformed Work and Transformed Labour Strategies
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
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