To:        Research Directors and Researchers of CLC Affiliated Unions
From:   Andrew Jackson
Re:       Work and Labour in Canada: Critical Issues
CSPI have just published the second edition of my book, Work and Labour in 
Canada: Critical Issues.
While this is written mainly as a text for university level courses, 
others may find it useful as a resource on a wide range of labour market 
issues and trends, including the role of unions.
The book can be ordered from CSPI or online from Chapters (price: $36.26).
http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Work-Labour-Canada-Critical-Issues-Andrew-Jackson/9781551303666-item.html?pticket=lq0fx3ii1poiwwimf5uj3eyeXNe9XMHpYKga5q0l%2bmBNLVe1j1c%3d
From the Publisher:
Now in its second edition, and with a new foreword by Wallace Clement, 
this original and timely book focuses on critical issues surrounding work 
and labour in Canada. It examines changes in the labour market and in the 
workplace, with a strong empirical component based upon the most recent 
Statistics Canada data. An ideal text for Sociology of Work, and a wide 
range of courses in Labour Studies and Industrial Relations programs 
across Canada. New to this edition:
All chapters substantially revised and thoroughly updated.
A discussion on the causes of the current economic crisis and its roots in 
the labour market, including a special appendix.
More emphasis on the fortunes of racialized Canadian-born workers as 
opposed to recent immigrants.
Brand new chapter on young workers.
Up-to-the-minute newspaper articles on the current global economic crisis.
Added material on occupational health and safety, emphasizing the 
connection between work and health.
New material on workers? rights as well as non-standard and precarious 
work.
From the Foreword by Wallace Clement:
Work life is fundamental to how we experience life in general. Most of us 
work to live but many of us also live to work. We gain our quality of 
life, identities, and much of our sense of meaning from our work lives. 
And, the link between work life and family life and/or leisure and 
education is also shaped by the quality of our work lives?our hours of 
work, its rewards, self-esteem, and social interactions. It is important 
to have a holistic view of work?that it is embedded in a series of 
economic, political, social, and cultural forces. Equally important is 
what we call ?work??whether for pay or not (volunteer, domestic work, 
etc.)?and recognize that the essential reproduction of citizens through 
care work is to be valued. How we understand work in terms of how we frame 
it as a value for individuals and societies matters. Work does not just 
happen. It is created, conditioned, and destroyed by the political economy 
in which it is embedded.
For these reasons, it is important to acknowledge the contribution of 
Andrew Jackson?s Work and Labour in Canada. It is a book designed to 
inform and educate its readers. Clearly, he has done a great deal of 
thinking about the right questions to ask and how to frame our 
understanding. He offers fresh ways to think about changing times by 
locating his analysis of Canada in a comparative context. At the base of 
his analysis is his penetration of struggles over whose views and/or 
interests prevail in the construction of work, such as his detailed 
account of conflicts over the implications of the debate about social 
spending versus tax cuts.
In solidary.
AJ:jc:cope 225



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