Work in tumultuous times : critical perspectives

Shalla, Vivian, 1959- (Added Author). Clement, Wallace. (Added Author).

Summary: "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 th uncertainty, insecurity and instability that increasingly characterize both paid and unpaid work. Using a progressive approach to political economy, contributors propose alternative policies an dpractices that might secure more decent livelihoods for workers and their families."--back cover.

Record details

ISBN: 0773531416 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0773531408 (bound)
ISBN: 9780773531413 (pbk)
Physical Description: print
xix, 427 pages : illustrations (tables) ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	1. Theoretical reflections on work: a quarter-century of critical thinking/ Vivian shalla -- 2. Methodological considerations: thinking about researching work / Wallace Clement -- 3. Gendered labour market insecurities: manifestations of precarious employment in different locations / Leah F. Vosko -- 4. Employment strain, precarious employment, and temporary employment agencies -- 5. Contradictions of labour processes and workers' use of skills in advanced capitalist economies / David W. Livingstone and Antonie Scholtz -- 6. Industrial work in post-industrial age / Charlotte Yates and Belinda Leach -- 7. Racializing work/reproducing white priviledge / Gillian Creese -- 8. Shifting temporalities: economic restructuring and the politics of working time Vivian Shalla -- 9. Social reproduction and the changing dynamics of unpaid household and caregiving work / June Corman and Meg Luxton -- 10. Blurring the distinction between public and private spheres: the commodification of household work - gender, class, community, and global dimension / Norene Pupo and Ann Duffy -- 11. Doubtful data: why paradigms matter in counting the health-care labour force / Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong, and Kate Laxer -- 12. Social citizenship and the transformation of paid work: reflections on possibilities for progressive change / Janet Siltanen -- 13. Remaking the Canadian labour movement: transformed work and transformed labour strategies / Rosemary Warskett.
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