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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. --Publisher's description. 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.

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