Interrogating the New Economy: Restructuring Work in the 21st Century

Interrogating the New Economy: Restructuring Work in the 21st Century
ISBN-10
1442600578
ISBN-13
9781442600577
Category
Social Science
Pages
316
Language
English
Published
2010-01-01
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Authors
Norene Pupo, Mark Preston Thomas

Description

Interrogating the New Economy is a collection of original essays investigating the New Economy and how changes ascribed to it have impacted labour relations, access to work, and, more generally, the social and cultural experiences of work in Canada. Based on years of participatory research, sector-specific studies, and quantitative and qualitative data collection, the work accounts for the ways in which the contemporary workplace has changed but also the extent to which older forms of work organization still remain. The collection begins with an overview of the key social and economic transformations that define the New Economy. It then illustrates these transformations through examples, including essays on wine tourism, the regeneration of mining communities, the place of student workers, and changes in the public service workplace. It also addresses unions and their responses to the restructuring of work, as well as other forms of resistance.

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