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Book SynopsisThis collection challenges outdated notions of a universal worker, offering a glimpse of work organization, management, and worker militancy.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
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Work in the New Economy: Critical Reflections, Norene Pupo and Mark Thomas Part I. Changing Structures and Processes in the New Economy 1. The "New Economy" and Capitalism Today, Greg Albo 2. Work, Welfare, and the New Economy: The Commodification of Everything, Dave Broad and Garson Hunter 3. Restructuring Work and Labour Markets in the New Economy: Four Processes, Wallace Clement, Sophie Mathieu, Steven Prus, and Emre Uckardesler 4. Global Restructuring of Value Chains and Class Issues, Ursula Huws and Simone Dahlmann Part II. Transformations in Work and Labour Processes 5. Labour Casualization in the Public Sector, Jane Stinson 6. Dialling for Service: Transforming the Public-Sector Workplace in Canada, Norene Pupo and Andrea Noack 7. Student Workers and the "New Economy" of Mid-Sized Cities: The Cases of Peterborough and Kingston, Ontario, Steven Tufts and John Holmes 8. Labour Migration and Temporary Work: Canada's Foreign Worker Programs in the "New Economy," Mark Thomas 9. Scripting Taste, Marking Distinction: Wine Tourism and Post-Fordist Restructuring in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Luis L.M. Aguiar and Tina Marten 10. Regeneration among Coal-Mining Communities in Canada and UK: The Role of Culture, Larry Haiven Part III. Unions and Forms of Resistance 11. Militancy and Resistance in the New Economy, Linda Briskin 12. Labour Fragmentation and New Forms of Organizing and Bargaining in the Service Sector, Dale Clark and Rosemary Warskett Glossary of Terms Notes on Contributors References
