Work in Tumultuous Times : Critical Perspectives

Intro -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1 Theoretical Reflections on Work: A Quarter-Century of Critical Thinking -- 2 Methodological Considerations: Thinking about Researching Work -- 3 Gendered Labour Market Insecurities: Manifestations of Precarious Employment in Different Locations -- 4 Employment Strain, Precarious Employment, and Temporary Employment Agencies -- 5 Contradictions of Labour Processes and Workers' Use of Skills in Advanced Capitalist Economies -- 6 Industrial Work in a Post-Industrial Age -- 7 Racializing Work/Reproducing White Privilege -- 8 Shifting Temporalities: Economic Restructuring and the Politics of Working Time -- 9 Social Reproduction and the Changing Dynamics of Unpaid Household and Caregiving Work -- 10 Blurring the Distinction between Public and Private Spheres: The Commodification of Household Work - Gender, Class, Community, and Global Dimensions -- 11 Doubtful Data: Why Paradigms Matter in Counting the Health-Care Labour Force -- 12 Social Citizenship and the Transformation of Paid Work: Reflections on Possibilities for Progressive Change -- 13 Remaking the Canadian Labour Movement: Transformed Work and Transformed Labour Strategies -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.