Interrogating the new economy : restructuring work in the 21st century / edited by Norene J. Pupo and Mark P. Thomas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pupo, Norene, 1952- editor.

Thomas, Mark P. (Mark Preston), 1969- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor--Canada--Textbooks.

Labor.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 p.)

Place of Publication:

North York, Ontario ; Plymouth, England ; Tonawanda, New York : University of Toronto Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""This collection challenges outdated notions of a universal worker, offering a glimpse of work organization, management, and worker militancy. It will be of value to academics and activists alike.""--Pam Sugiman, Ryerson University

Contents:

The "new economy" and capitalism today / Gregory Albo

Work, welfare, and the new economy : the commodification of everything / Dave Broad, Garson Hunter

Restructuring work and labour markets in the new economy : four processes / Wallace Clement [and others]

Global restructuring of value chains and class issues / Ursula Huws, Simone Dahlmann

Labour casualization in the public sector / Jane Stinson

Dialling for service : transforming the public-sector workplace in Canada / Norene Pupo, Andrea Noack

Student workers and the "new economy" of mid-sized cities : the cases of Peterborough and Kingston, Ontario / Steven Tufts, John Holmes

Labour migration and temporary work : Canada's foreign-worker programs in the "new economy" / Mark Thomas

Scripting taste, marking distinction : wine tourism and post-Fordist restructuring in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia / Luis L.M. Aguiar, Tina Marten

Regeneration among coal-mining communities in Canada and the UK : the role of culture / Larry Haiven

Militancy and resistance in the new economy / Linda Briskin

Labour fragmentation and new forms of organizing and bargaining in the service sector / Dale Clark, Rosemary Warskett.

Notes:

"A Garamond book."

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781442600539

1442600535

OCLC:

893230436