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245 00 $aWorking in a global era :$bCanadian perspectives /$cedited by Vivian Shalla.
250 $a2nd ed.
260 $aToronto :$bCanadian Scholars' Press Inc.,$cc2011.
300 $a408 p. :$bill., map ;$c25 cm.
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aSection 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 and Labour 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 Municipal Government 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 and Home 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.
520 $a"Working in a Global Era is a unique reader that examines the world of work from a critical, Canadian perspective. Thoroughly updated and revamped to reflect current issues and debates, this second edition brings together 14 cutting-edge readings.
520 $aThe book is divided into seven sections that cover a wide range of topics: globalization and neo-liberalism; the reorganization of the manufacturing and service sectors; precariousness and flexibilization; racialization and migration; labour market restructuring; informal care work; and union renewal. Each section contains two chapters, giving students a diversity of voices on each issue.
520 $aThis is an ideal text for courses in the sociology of work and labour and will also be of interest to instructors and students in labour studies and industrial relations programs."--Pub. desc.
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