{"product_id":"interrogating-the-new-economy-9781442600553","title":"Interrogating the New Economy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection challenges outdated notions of a universal worker, offering a glimpse of work organization, management, and worker militancy.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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements     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","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408345899351,"sku":"9781442600553","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442600553.jpg?v=1730502529","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/interrogating-the-new-economy-9781442600553","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}