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Work in tumultuous times : Canadian perspectives / edited by Vivian Shalla and Wallace Clement

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Montreal [Quebec] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2007]
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1 online resource (xix, 427 pages : illustrations
Additional Creators
Clement, Wallace and Shalla, Vivian
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Contents
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.
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9780773577220 (electronic book)
077357722X (electronic book)
0773531408 (paperback)
9780773531406 (bound)
9780773531413 (paperback)
0773531416
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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