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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791427003321

Autore

Clement Wallace

Titolo

Changing Canada [[electronic resource] ] : political economy as transformation / / edited by Wallace Clement and Leah F. Vosko

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2003

ISBN

1-282-86109-3

9786612861093

0-7735-7099-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (531 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ClementWallace

VoskoLeah F

Disciplina

971.064/8

Soggetti

Social change - Canada

Canada Economic conditions 1991-

Canada Politics and government 1980-

Canada Social conditions 1991-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PART TWO: WELFARE STATE RESTRUCTURING: SHIFTING EMPLOYMENT FORMS AND NEW HOUSEHOLD FORMS; PART THREE: INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARIES AND CONTEXTS; PART FOUR: THE NEW URBAN EXPERIENCE; PART FIVE: CREATIVE SITES OF RESISTANCE: ECOLOGY, LABOUR, YOUTH, AND POPULAR CULTURE; Contributors; 1 Politics in the Time and Space of Globalization; 2 Transformative Politics, the State, and the Politics of Social Change in Quebec; 3 Decolonization and Recolonization in Canada; 4 Social Movements and Transformation

5 Politics and Transformation: Welfare State Restructuring in Canada6 No Minor Matter: The Political Economy of Childcare in Canada; 7 Pay Equity: Complexity and Contradiction in Legal Rights and Social Processes; 8 Gender Paradoxes and the Rise of Contingent Work: Towards a Transformative Political Economy of the Labour Market; 9 Beyond the Continentalist/Nationalist Divide: Politics in a North America ""without Borders""; 10 ""Playin' Along"": Canada and Global



Finance; 11 Toward a North American Common Currency; 12 The Transformation of Communication in Canada

13 Municipal Restructuring, Urban Services and the Potential for the Creation of Transformative Political Spaces14 The Urban Experience and Globalization; 15 Immigration, Ethnicity, and Race: The Transformation of Transnationalism, Localism, and Identities; 16 Ecology, Political Economy, and Social Transformation; 17 Canadian Labour and the Political Economy of Transformation; 18 Towards a ""Cultural"" Political Economy of Canadian Youth; 19 Finding Godot? Bringing Popular Culture into Canadian Political Economy

Sommario/riassunto

Changing Canada examines political transformations, welfare state restructuring, international boundaries and contexts, the new urban experience, and creative resistance.