Contingent Work Disrupted Lives

Author : Anthony Winson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802084262
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contingent Work, Disrupted Lives written by Anthony Winson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new rural economy involves a fundamental shift in the stability and security of people's lives and ultimately causes wrenching change and an arduous struggle as rural dwellers struggle to rebuild their lives in the new economic terrain.

Author : Anthony Winson
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Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Author : Belinda Leach
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442690887
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contingent Work, Disrupted Lives written by Belinda Leach and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2002-11-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contingent Work, Disrupted Lives examines the repercussions of economic globalization on several manufacturing-dependent rural communities in Canada. Foregrounding a distinct interest in the 'grassroots' effects of such contemporary corporate strategies as plant closures and downsizing, authors Anthony Winson and Belinda Leach consider the impact of this restructuring on the residents of various communities. The authors argue that the new rural economy involves a fundamental shift in the stability and security of people's lives and, ultimately, it causes wrenching change and an arduous struggle as rural dwellers struggle to rebuild their lives in the new economic terrain. Beginning with broader theoretical and empirical literature on global changes in the economy and the effects of these changes on labour, the text then focuses exploration on manufacturing in Ontario with an analysis of five community case studies. Winson and Leach give considerable attention to the testimony of numerous residents; they report on in-depth interviews with key respondents and blue-collar workers in five separate communities, ranging from diverse manufacturing towns to single-industry settlements. The result is an intimate contextual knowledge of the workers' lives and their attempts to adapt to the tumultuous economic terrain of 1990s rural Canada. Winner of the John Porter Prize for 2003, awarded by the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association.

Author : Richenda Gambles
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470094621
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Work-Life Balance written by Richenda Gambles and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-02-22 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many regard the ways in which paid work can be combined or ‘balanced’ with other parts of life as an individual concern and a small, rather self-indulgent problem in today’s world. Some feel that worrying about a lack of time or energy for family relationships or friendships is a luxury or secondary issue when compared with economic growth or development. In the business world and among many Governments around the world, the importance of paid work and the primacy of economic competitiveness, whatever the personal costs, is almost accepted wisdom. Profits and short term efficiency gains are often placed before social issues of care or human dignity. But what about the impact this has on men and women’s well being, or the long-term sustainability of people, families, society or even the economy? Drawing from interviews and group meetings in seven diverse countries – India, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, the UK and USA – this book explores the multiple difficulties in combining paid work with other parts of life and the frustrations people experience in diverse settings. There is a myth that ‘work-life balance’ can be achieved through quick fixes rather than challenging the place of paid work in people’s lives and the way work actually gets done. As well as exploring contemporary problems, this book attempts to seed hope and new ways of thinking about one of the key challenges of our time.

Author : Lucy Adams
Publisher : Practical Inspiration Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788602102
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book HR Disrupted written by Lucy Adams and published by Practical Inspiration Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NEW AND UPDATED EDITION OF THE CLASSIC WORK ON DISRUPTIVE HR. THE WAY WE WORK IS CHANGING FAST, AND TRADITIONAL HR IS NO LONGER FIT FOR PURPOSE. Equipping our organizations to meet today’s demands requires something very different. This book provides HR professionals with: a compelling case for changing HR practical people solutions for a disrupted world strategies to make the changes they need ways to equip HR with the right capabilities and mindset Lucy Adams is a ‘recovering HR Director’. Having held Board-level HR roles in major organizations, she is now on a mission to change outdated HR practices for good.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Society written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 780 pages
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Download or read book Labour written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael John Corbett
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning to Leave written by Michael John Corbett and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been argued that if education is to be democratic and serve the purpose of social and cultural elevation, then it must be generic and transcend the specificity of the locale. This work shows that continuing rates of high school drop-out among youth in rural and coastal communities among young men, illustrates the failure of this approach.

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Total Pages : 396 pages
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Author : Donna J. Haraway
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822373785
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Staying with the Trouble written by Donna J. Haraway and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it more aptly and fully describes our epoch as one in which the human and nonhuman are inextricably linked in tentacular practices. The Chthulucene, Haraway explains, requires sym-poiesis, or making-with, rather than auto-poiesis, or self-making. Learning to stay with the trouble of living and dying together on a damaged earth will prove more conducive to the kind of thinking that would provide the means to building more livable futures. Theoretically and methodologically driven by the signifier SF—string figures, science fact, science fiction, speculative feminism, speculative fabulation, so far—Staying with the Trouble further cements Haraway's reputation as one of the most daring and original thinkers of our time.