Negotiating Risk, Seeking Security, Eroding Solidarity: Life and Work on the Border - Brossura

Gibbs, Holly; Leach, Belinda; Yates, Charlotte A. B.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1552665275 ISBN 13: 9781552665275

Casa editrice: Fernwood Pub Co Ltd, 2012

Riassunto

Through a series of interviews with workers in the automotive parts industry, this study argues that the restructuring of labor markets and welfare states, paired with firm-level work and management reorganization, has exposed working-class families to greater levels of job risk and insecurity. Focusing on workers in Canada and Mexico and using a gender and race analysis, this book paints a bleak portrait of the lives of working people, where workers and their families continually renegotiate the effects of neo-liberal economic and social change. These changes see individuals working harder, longer and travelling further from home to keep their jobs, while straining familial and community relations and eroding the basis for worker solidarity and collective action.

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Holly Gibbs is a doctoral candidate at McMaster University. She lives in Toronto. Belinda Leach is associate dean of research in the college of social and applied human sciences and a professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of Guelph. She lives in Guelph, Ontario. Charlotte A. B. Yates is dean of the faculty of social sciences and a professor in the school of labour studies and department of political science at McMaster University. She is the author of From Plant to Politics: The Autoworkers Union in Postwar Canada. She lives in Toronto.

Holly Gibbs is a doctoral candidate at McMaster University. She lives in Toronto. Belinda
Leach is associate dean of research in the college of social and applied human sciences and a
professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of Guelph. She lives in Guelph, Ontario.
Charlotte A. B. Yates is dean of the faculty of social sciences and a professor in the school of
labour studies and department of political science at McMaster University. She is the author of
"From Plant to Politics: The Autoworkers Union in Postwar Canada."""She lives in Toronto.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Fernwood Pub Co Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1552665275
• ISBN 13: 9781552665275
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 147
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile