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Negotiating Risk, Seeking Solidarity, Eroding Security: Life and Work on the Border
Holly Gibbs
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Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: JHBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 8. Weight in Grams: 230. Life and Work on the Border. 144 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: JHBL. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 8. Weight: 230.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
229g
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Black Point, Nova Scotia, Canada
ISBN
9781552665275
SKU
V9781552665275
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About Holly Gibbs
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 ... Read more
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