Working in a Global Era: Canadian Perspectives

Contents: Preface to the Second Edition -- Introduction. Section I: Contextualizing the Transformation of Work: Globalization and Neoliberalism. Capitalism Rebooted? The New Economy Might Not Be All That New / Dave Broad and Wayne Antony -- The Neoliberal Rollback in Historical Perspective / Thom Workman. Section II: The Reorganization of Work in the Manufacturing and Service Sectors. Auto Workers’ Learning in Lean Production / David W. Livingstone and Olivia Wilson -- Dialling for Service: Transforming the Public Sector Workplace in Canada / Norene J. Pupo and Andrea Noack. Section III: The Increasing Precariousness of Work and the Flexibilization of Working Time. Precarious Work, Privatization, and the Health-Care Industry: The Case of Ancillary Workers / Pat Armstrong and Kate Laxer -- Shifting Temporalities: Economic Restructuring and the Politics of Working Time / Vivian Shalla. Section IV: Racialization, Labour Migration, and Transformed Labour Markets. Racializing Work/Reproducing White Privilege / Gillian Creese -- Labour Migration and Temporary Work: Canada’s Foreign-Worker Programs in the “New Economy” / Mark Thomas -- Section V: Experiencing and Responding to Workplace and Labour Market Restructuring. Flows, Eddies, Swamps, and Whirlpools: Inequality and the Experience of Work Change / Janet Siltanen, Alette Willis, and Willow Scobie -- “Doing Something Meaningful”: Gender and Public Service during Municipal Government Restructuring / Diana Worts, Bonnie Fox, and Peggy McDonough. Section VI: Informal Care Work and the Balancing of Paid Work and Family Responsibilities. Mr. Dithers Comes to Dinner: Telework and the Merging of Women’s Work and Home Domains in Canada / Laura C. Johnson, Jean Audrey, and Susan M. Shaw -- Friends, Neighbours, and Community: A Case Study of the Role of Informal Caregiving in Social Reproduction / Meg Luxton. Section VII: Union Renewal and Alternative Organizing Strategies. Cross-Constituency Organizing: A Vehicle for Union Renewal / Linda Briskin -- Renewal from Different Directions: The Case of UNITE-HERE Local 75 / Steven Tufts.