Work in tumultuous times [[electronic resource] ] : critical perspectives / / edited by Vivian Shalla and Wallace Clement
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Shalla Vivian
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| Titolo: |
Work in tumultuous times [[electronic resource] ] : critical perspectives / / edited by Vivian Shalla and Wallace Clement
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| 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 | |
| Altri autori: |
ClementWallace
ShallaVivian <1959->
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| 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. |
| 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.: | 9910789862303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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