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Holly Gibbs

Negotiating Risk, Seeking Solidarity, Eroding Security

Life and Work on the Border

Buch

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 the… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Leach, Belinda / Yates, Charlotte A. B.
  • ISBN: 978-1-55266-527-5
  • EAN: 9781552665275
  • Produktnummer: 15995544
  • Verlag: Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
  • Seitenangabe: 144 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.5 cm x D0.8 cm 230 g
  • Gewicht: 230
  • Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor


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.

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