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Canadian Workers and Social Cohesion
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Robert O'Brien
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$85.00 Hardcover
Release Date: 4/21/2008
ISBN: 9780774814393
$32.95 Paperback
Release Date: 1/1/2009
ISBN: 9780774814409
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About the Book
As working people’s lives become increasingly fragmented, competitive, and unequal, debates about social cohesion capture the unease of contemporary society over growing economic restructuring. Solidarity First examines the concept and practice of social cohesion in terms of its impact on, and significance for, workers in Canada.
Contributors examine how social cohesion functions on multiple levels. They challenge standard approaches by highlighting the experiences of women and non-Canadians. They investigate attempts by Toyota and Magna to construct corporate forms of cohesion and efforts by a local community to forge cohesion via the new cultural economy. And they explore the relationship between cohesion in Canada and the international environment.
Critically examining the issue from the ground up, Solidarity First concludes that reinvigorated worker solidarity is a prerequisite to a more worker-friendly form of social cohesion. It will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of public policy, political science, sociology, and labour studies.
About the Author(s)
Robert O’Brien is the LIUNA-Mancinelli Professor in Global Labour Issues and Chair of the Department of Political Science at McMaster University.
Contributors include Roy Adams, Holly Gibbs, Belinda Leach, Wayne Lewchuck, Mark Thomas, Larry Haiven, Leah Vosko, Don Wells, and Charlotte Yates.
Table of Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1. Introduction: Canadian Workers and Social Cohesion / Robert O’Brien
Part 1: Conceptualizing Social Cohesion
2. Gendering the Concept of Social Cohesion through an Understanding of Women and Work / Belinda Leach and Charlotte Yates
3. Social Cohesion, International Competitiveness, and the "Other": A Connected Comparison of Workers’ Relationships in Canada and Mexico / Holly Gibbs
Part 2: Constructing Social Cohesion
4. Workplace Cohesion and the Fragmentation of Solidarity: The Magna Model / Wayne Lewchuk and Don Wells
5. Working Time and Labour Control in the Toyota Production System / Mark Thomas
6. Cultural Production and Social Cohesion amid the Decline of Coal and Steel: The Case of Cape Breton Island / Larry Haiven
Part 3: Internationalizing Social Cohesion
7. Civil Society Targets the International / Robert O’Brien
8. International Labour Norms and Worker Disorganization in Canada / Roy Adams
9. ILO Action on "The Scope of the Employment Relationship": Lessons from Canada on the Gendered Limits of Fostering Social Cohesion / Leah F. Vosko
10. Conclusion: Beyond Social Cohesion / Robert O’Brien
Notes
References
List of Contributors
Index
Reviews
An important and timely book that engages a uniquely critical perspective on the liberal ideology of social cohesion from a labour perspective. It will be a useful for students in courses dealing with social conflict, cohesion, and labour issues from both a domestic and international standpoint. I can think of no other source with the depth of analysis and range of case studies represented, so it would also be an excellent resource for those in the labour movement itself.
– Colin Mooers, editor of The New Imperialists: Ideologies of Empire
Solidarity First is about working class experience in the era of globalization and neo-liberalism; the contributors show how this experience provides an invaluable lens through which to evaluate the discourse and set of practices that go under the label "social cohesion." Well-written and clear, it will be read by researchers in a variety of social science disciplines.
– Stephen McBride, co-editor of Global Turbulence: Social Activists' and State Responses to Globalization
Sample Chapter
Front Matter and Chapter One
Related Topics
Political Science
Political Science > Canada
Sociology
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