Work in Tumultuous Times

by Shalla, Vivian; Clement, Wallace

• ISBN13: 9780773531406
• ISBN10: 0773531408
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-30
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ Pr

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 the uncertainty, insecurity, and instability that increasingly characterize both paid and unpaid work.Using a progressive approach to political economy, contributors propose alternative policies and practices that might secure more decent livelihoods for workers and their families.

Table of Contents

Theoretical reflections on work : a quarter-century of critical thinking	p. 3
Methodological considerations : thinking about researching work	p. 30
Gendered labour market insecurities : manifestations of precarious employment in different locations	p. 52
Employment strain, precarious employment, and temporary employment agencies	p. 98
Contradictions of labour processes and workers' use of skills in advanced capitalist economies	p. 131
Industrial work in a post-industrial age	p. 163
Racializing work/reproducing white privilege	p. 192
Shifting temporalities : economic restructuring and the politics of working time	p. 227
Social reproduction and the changing dynamics of unpaid household and caregiving work	p. 262
Blurring the distinction between public and private spheres : the commodification of household work - gender, class, community, and global dimensions	p. 289
Doubtful data : why paradigms matter in counting the health-care labour force	p. 326
Social citizenship and the transformation of paid work : reflections on possibilities for progressive change	p. 349
Remaking the Canadian labour movement : transformed work and transformed labour strategies	p. 380
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