Interrogating the New Economy: Restructuring Work in the 21st Century

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Work in the New Economy: Critical Reflections, Norene Pupo and Mark Thomas

Part I. Changing Structures and Processes in the New Economy

1. The "New Economy" and Capitalism Today, Greg Albo
2. Work, Welfare, and the New Economy: The Commodification of Everything, Dave Broad and Garson Hunter
3. Restructuring Work and Labour Markets in the New Economy: Four Processes, Wallace Clement, Sophie Mathieu, Steven Prus, and Emre Uckardesler
4. Global Restructuring of Value Chains and Class Issues, Ursula Huws and Simone Dahlmann

Part II. Transformations in Work and Labour Processes

5. Labour Casualization in the Public Sector, Jane Stinson
6. Dialling for Service: Transforming the Public-Sector Workplace in Canada, Norene Pupo and Andrea Noack
7. Student Workers and the "New Economy" of Mid-Sized Cities: The Cases of Peterborough and Kingston, Ontario, Steven Tufts and John Holmes
8. Labour Migration and Temporary Work: Canada's Foreign Worker Programs in the "New Economy," Mark Thomas
9. Scripting Taste, Marking Distinction: Wine Tourism and Post-Fordist Restructuring in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Luis L.M. Aguiar and Tina Marten
10. Regeneration among Coal-Mining Communities in Canada and UK: The Role of Culture, Larry Haiven

Part III. Unions and Forms of Resistance

11. Militancy and Resistance in the New Economy, Linda Briskin
12. Labour Fragmentation and New Forms of Organizing and Bargaining in the Service Sector, Dale Clark and Rosemary Warskett

Glossary of Terms

Notes on Contributors

References