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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816585203321

Autore

Shalla Vivian

Titolo

Work in tumultuous times [[electronic resource] ] : critical perspectives / / edited by Vivian Shalla and Wallace Clement

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-86767-9

9786612867675

0-7735-7722-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (448 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ClementWallace

ShallaVivian <1959->

Disciplina

331.0971

Soggetti

Labor - Canada

Job security - Canada

Discrimination in employment - Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Using a progressive approach to political economy, contributors propose alternative policies and practices that might secure more decent livelihoods for workers and their families.