Changing Canada

by Clement, Wallace; Vosko, Leah F.

• ISBN13: 9780773525313
• ISBN10: 0773525319
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ

Summary

Changing Canada examines political transformations, welfare state restructuring, international boundaries and contexts, the new urban experience, and creative resistance. The authors question dominant ways of thinking and promote alternative ways of understanding and explaining Canadian society and politics that encourage progressive social change. They examine how the evolution of capitalism is producing new types of transformations and new forms of resistance, and show that aspects of the state and the wider society are being contested. They also discuss the often paradoxical or contradictory effects of various social forces, such as the liberating but also constraining features of new communications technologies, new employment norms, and new household forms. Contributors include Laurie E. Adkin (University of Alberta), Caroline Andrew (University of Ottawa), Pat Armstrong (York University), William Carroll (University of Victoria), Elaine Coburn (Stanford University), William D. Coleman (McMaster University), Mary Cornish (senior partner with Cavalluzzo, Hayes, Shilton, McIntyre & Cornish), Judy Fudge (York University), Christina Gabriel (Carleton University), Sam Gindin (York University), Joyce Green (University of Regina), Eric Helleiner (Trent University), Robert G. Hollands (University of Newcastle), Jane Jenson (Université de Montréal), Roger Keil (York University), Stefan Kipfer (York University), Fuyuki Kurasawa (York University), Laura Macdonald (Carleton University), Rianne Mahon (Carleton University), Wendy McKeen (Dalhousie University), Elizabeth Millar (consultant, Nelligan, O'Brien and Payne Law Firm and Labour Consulting Group), Vincent Mosco (Carleton University), Susan Phillips (Carleton University), Ann Porter (York University), Tony Porter (McMaster University), Daniel Salee (Concordia University), Vic Satzewich (McMaster University), Jim Stanford (Canadian Auto Workers' Union, Toronto), Mel Watkins (emeritus, University of Toronto), and Lloyd L. Wong (University of Calgary).

Author Biography

Laurie E. Adkin is Associate Professor of Comparative Politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta Caroline Andrew is Professor of Political Science at the University of Ottawa Pat Armstrong is Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at York University William Carroll is Professor of Sociology at the University of Victoria Wallace Clement is Chancellor's Professor at Carleton University Elaine Coburn is a Canadian PhD student in the Department of Sociology at Stanford University William D. Coleman holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Governance and Public Policy at McMaster University Mary Cornish is a senior partner with the firm of Cavalluzzo, Hayes, Shilton, McIntyre & Cornish Judy Fudge teaches employment and labour law at Osgoode Hall School, York University Christina Gabriel is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's Studies, Carleton University Sam Gindin holds the Packer Chair in Social Justice in the Department of Political Science at York University Joyce Green is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Regina Eric Helleiner is Canada Research Chair in International Political Economy at Trent University Robert Hollands lectures in youth studies and urban sociology in the Department of Social Policy, University of Newcastle, England Jane Jenson holds a Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Governance at the Universite de Montreal, where she is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Universite de Montreal/McGill University Institute of European Studies Roger Keil is Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director at the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University Stefan Kipfer is in the PhD program in Political Science at York University and teaches courses in urban politics and social policy in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York Fuyuki Kurasawa is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at York University Laura MacDonald is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University Wendy McKeen is Assistant Professor at the Maritime School of Social Work, Dalhousie University, Halifax, where she teaches social policy Rianne Mahon is Director of Carleton University's Institute of Political Economy Elizabeth Millar is a Pay Equity Consultant with Nelligan, O'Brien and Payne Law Firm and Labour Consulting Group Vincent Mosco is Professor of Communication at Carleton University Susan Phillips is Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University Ann Porter is Assistant Professor of Political Science at York University Tony Porter is Associate Professor of Political Science at McMaster University in Hamilton Daniel Salee is in the Department of Political Science and Principal of the School of Community and Public Affairs at Concordia University Vic Satzewich is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology, McMaster University Jim Stanford is an economist with the Canadian Auto Workers union in Toronto Leah F. Vosko is Canada Research Chair in Feminist Political Economy, School of Social Sciences (Political Science), Joseph E. Atkinson School of Liberal and Professional Studies, York University Mel Watkins is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Political Science, University College, University of Toronto Lloyd L. Wong is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Calgary and research affiliate with the Prairie Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xi
PART ONE POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS
Politics in the Time and Space of Globalization	3	(22)
Mel Watkins
Transformative Politics, the State, and the Politics of Social Change in Quebec	25	(26)
Daniel Salee
Decolonization and Recolonization in Canada	51	(28)
Joyce Green
Social Movements and Transformation	79	(30)
William K. Carroll
Elaine Coburn
PART TWO WELFARE STATE RESTRUCTURING: SHIFTING EMPLOYMENT FORMS AND NEW HOUSEHOLD FORMS
Politics and Transformation: Welfare State Restructuring in Canada	109	(26)
Wendy McKeen
Ann Porter
No Minor Matter: The Political Economy of Childcare in Canada	135	(26)
Jane Jenson
Rianne Mahon
Susan D. Phillips
Pay Equity: Complexity and Contradiction in Legal Rights and Social Processes	161	(22)
Pal Armstrong
Mary Cornish
Elizabeth Millar
Gender Paradoxes and the Rise of Contingent Work: Towards a Transformative Political Economy of the Labour Market	183	(30)
Judy Fudge
Leah F. Vosko
PART THREE INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARIES AND CONTEXTS
Beyond the Continentalist/Nationalist Divide: Politics in a North America ``without Borders''	213	(28)
Christina Gabriel
Laura Macdonald
``Playin' Along'': Canada and Global Finance	241	(24)
William Coleman
Tony Porter
Toward a North American Common Currency	265	(22)
Eric Helleiner
The Transformation of Communication in Canada	287	(24)
Vincent Mosco
PART FOUR THE NEW URBAN EXPERIENCE
Municipal Restructuring, Urban Services and the Potential for the Creation of Transformative Political Spaces	311	(24)
Caroline Andrew
The Urban Experience and Globalization	335	(28)
Roger Keil
Stefan Kipfer
Immigration, Ethnicity, and Race: The Transformation of Transnationalism, Localism, and Identities	363	(30)
Vic Satzewich
Lloyd Wong
PART FIVE CREATIVE SITES OF RESISTANCE: ECOLOGY, LABOUR, YOUTH, AND POPULAR CULTURE
Ecology, Political Economy, and Social Transformation	393	(29)
Laurie Adkin
Canadian Labour and the Political Economy of Transformation	422	(21)
Sam Gindin
Jim Stanford
Towards a ``Cultural'' Political Economy of Canadian Youth	443	(24)
Robert Hollands
Finding Godot? Bringing Popular Culture into Canadian Political Economy	467	(26)
Fuyuki Kurasawa
Contributors	493