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Precarious employment : causes, consequences and remedies / edited by Stephanie Procyk, Wayne Lewchuk and John Shields.

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Fernwood, c2017.

Precarious employment -- Canada.

Precarious employment.

Labour in Canada (Halifax, N.S.) ; 5.

9781552669822 (pbk.)

1552669823 (pbk.)

ix, 189 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Issued also in electronic format.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-183).

Part I. Precarity in Canada - 1. Origins of precarity: families and communities in crisis / Wayne Lewchuk, Stephanie Procyk, John Shields -- Part II. Creating precarity and its social impact -- 2. "No one cares about us": precarious employment among racialized immigrant women / Yogendra Shakya, Stephanie Premji -- 3. Precarious undertakings: serving vulnerable communities through non-profit work / John Shields, Donna Baines, Ian Cunningham -- 4. Sacrificing the family for the family: impacts of repeated separations in temporary foreign workers / Aara©đn D©Ưaz Mendiburo, Andr©♭ Lyn, Janet McLauglin, Biljiana Vasilevska, Don Wells -- 5. Precarious students and families in Halton, Ontario: linking citizenship, employment and Filipino student success / Jennilee Austria, Philip Kelly, Don Wells -- 6. $14 now!: voices of the minimum wage campaign / Serene K. Tan -- 7. Re-scripting care work: collaborative cultural production and caregiver advocacy / Philip Kelly and Conely de Leon -- 8. Cleaners against precarity: lessons from a vulnerable workforce / Sean Patterson, Jenny Carson, Myer Siemiatycki -- 9. Austerity, precarity and workers' voice: representation for precarious workers in non-union social services / Ian Cunningham, Donna Baines and John Shields -- 10. The immigrant discount: working on the edges of the labour market / Diane Dyson, Nasima Akter -- Workers' precarity: what to do about it? / Wayne Lewchuk, Stephanie Procyk -- Resources: Calculating your employment precarity score -- Interested in learning where your organization's employment policies are on the issue of workforce security?

"This edited collection introduces and explores the causes and consequences of precarious employment in Canada and across the world. After contextualizing employment precarity and its root causes, the authors illustrate how precarious employment is created amongst different populations and describe the accompanying social impacts on racialized immigrant women, those in the non-profit sector, temporary foreign workers and the children of Filipino immigrants."--From publisher.

Shields, John, 1954-,

Procyk, Stephanie, 1982-,

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