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

• Pubblicazione: Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (448 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.0971
• Soggetto topico: Labor - Canada; Job security - Canada; Discrimination in employment - Canada
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: ClementWallace ShallaVivian <1959->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Work in tumultuous times
• ISBN: 1-282-86767-9; 9786612867675; 0-7735-7722-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459942203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II