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Work in tumultuous times : critical perspectives / edited by Vivian Shalla and Wallace Clement.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Labor--Canada.
- Labor.
- Job security--Canada.
- Job security.
- Discrimination in employment--Canada.
- Discrimination in employment.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (448 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Using a progressive approach to political economy, contributors propose alternative policies and practices that might secure more decent livelihoods for workers and their families.
- Contents:
- Theoretical reflections on work : a quarter-century of critical thinking / Vivian Shalla
- Methodological considerations : thinking about researching work / Wallace Clement
- Gendered labour market insecurities : manifestations of precarious employment in different locations / Leah F. Vosko
- Employment strain, precarious employment, and temporary employment agencies / Wayne Lewchuk, Alice De Wolff, and Andy King
- Contradictions of labour processes and workers' use of skills in advanced capitalist economies / David W. Livingstone and Antonie Scholtz
- Industrial work in a post-industrial age / Charlotte Yates and Belinda Leach
- Racializing work/reproducing white privilege / Gillian Creese
- Shifting temporalities : economic restructuring and the politics of working time / Vivian Shalla
- Social reproduction and the changing dynamics of unpaid household and caregiving work / June Corman and Meg Luxton
- Blurring the distinction between public and private spheres : the commodification of household work
- gender, class, community, and global dimensions / Norene Pupo and Ann Duffy
- Doubtful data : why paradigms matter in counting the health-care labour force / Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong, and Kate Laxer
- Social citizenship and the transformation of paid work : reflections on possibilities for progressive change / Janet Siltanen
- Remaking the Canadian labour movement : transformed work and transformed labour strategies / Rosemary Warskett.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-86767-9
- 9786612867675
- 0-7735-7722-X
- OCLC:
- 923233816
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