| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 292 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
The "new economy" and capitalism today / Gregory Albo -- Work, welfare, and the new economy : the commodification of everything / Dave Broad, Garson Hunter -- Restructuring work and labour markets in the new economy : four processes / Wallace Clement [and others] -- Global restructuring of value chains and class issues / Ursula Huws, Simone Dahlmann -- Labour casualization in the public sector / Jane Stinson -- Dialling for service : transforming the public-sector workplace in Canada / Norene Pupo, Andrea Noack -- Student workers and the "new economy" of mid-sized cities : the cases of Peterborough and Kingston, Ontario / Steven Tufts, John Holmes -- Labour migration and temporary work : Canada's foreign-worker programs in the "new economy" / Mark Thomas -- Scripting taste, marking distinction : wine tourism and post-Fordist restructuring in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia / Luis L.M. Aguiar, Tina Marten -- Regeneration among coal-mining communities in Canada and the UK : the role of culture / Larry Haiven -- Militancy and resistance in the new economy / Linda Briskin -- Labour fragmentation and new forms of organizing and bargaining in the service sector / Dale Clark, Rosemary Warskett |
| Summary |
""This collection challenges outdated notions of a universal worker, offering a glimpse of work organization, management, and worker militancy. It will be of value to academics and activists alike.""--Pam Sugiman, Ryerson University |
| Notes |
"A Garamond book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Labor -- Canada -- Textbooks
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Workplace Culture.
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Labor.
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Canada.
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| Genre/Form |
Textbooks.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pupo, Norene, 1952-
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Thomas, Mark P. (Mark Preston), 1969-
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| ISBN |
9781442600539 |
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1442600535 |
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