Work and Labour in Canada: Critical Issues, Andrew Jackson

http://www.cspi.org/books/w/workandlabour.htm

This original and timely book focuses on critical issues surrounding work
and labour in Canada. It is an ideal core or additional text for Sociology
of Work courses, which often integrate labour, industry, and the global
economy from a Canadian perspective. This book will also be relevant to a
wide range of courses in Labour Studies and Industrial Relations programs
across Canada. As well, policy makers and labour activists will be keenly
interested in this new book.

The thesis is change. Work and Labour in Canada examines changes in the
labour market, and in workplaces, with a strong empirical component based
upon recent Statistics Canada data. The chapters are tailored to an
undergraduate audience. They are masterfully written from a labour
perspective - that is, concerned with the impacts of changes on workers -
but also written on the basis of empirical evidence with supporting
summaries of the academic research literature.

The material is up-to-the-minute and logically organized. The first
section, a well-rounded introduction to the Canadian workplace, discusses
why jobs are important; work, wages, and the living standards of Canadian
working people; taking life-long learning seriously; and the unhealthy
Canadian workplace.

The second main part is devoted to gender and race inequalities -
specifically, women in the workforce, minorities in the workforce, and
older workers in transition to retirement. ('Minorities' includes workers
of colour and recent immigrants, Aboriginal Canadians, and persons with
disabilities.)

Contemporary Canadian unions are also discussed at length, which helps to
set the stage for the final section: Canada in a global perspective. The
impacts of globalization and Free Trade are analysed. Key issues revisited
throughout the book include good jobs/bad jobs, family struggles,
unemployment, women and work, race/ethnicity and work, as well as Canada in
a comparative, global context.

April 2005, 1-55130-271-3, C$39.95 US$34.95, 256 pp, pb, 6 ¾ x 9 ¾
Canadian Scholars' Press Inc. (CSPI)

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Andrew Jackson is the National Director, Social and Economic Policy at the
Canadian Labour Congress and a Research Associate with the Canadian Centre
for Policy Alternatives. His areas of interest include the labour market
and the quality of jobs; income distribution and poverty; macro-economic
policy; and the impacts of globalization on workers. He has written
numerous articles for popular and academic publications and has co-authored
three books.
In addition to his role at the CLC and the CCPA, Andrew Jackson was
recently appointed to Research Professor at Carleton's Institute of
Political Economy.

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