Manufacturing Meltdown: Reshaping Steel Work - Softcover

Livingstone, D.W.; Smith, Dorothy E.; Smith, Warren

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1552664023 ISBN 13: 9781552664025

Publisher: Fernwood Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Using the global steel industry’s status in the 1980s as a context, this study follows its evolution from booming business to a precipitous decline, comparing it to the current changes unfolding within the Canadian steel industry. The chronicle demonstrates how management demanded workers’ augmented participation in increasingly temporary and insecure labor. Workers at the flagship Stelco plant in Hamilton, Ontario, are interviewed, and new management strategies as well as the unionized workforces’ responses to them are documented. Illustrating the effects of the industry’s decline on the workers’ communities as well, this series of investigations reveals how the insight of today’s steelworkers is being dismissed in favor of an undermining academic knowledge.

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About the Author

D.W. Livingstone is Canada Research Chair in Lifelong Learning and Work at the University of Toronto, Head of the Centre for the Study of Education and Work at OISE/UT, and Director of the SSHRC national research network on "The Changing Nature of Work and Lifelong Learning."

Warren J. Smith (Carlsbad, CA) is Chief Scientist at Kaiser Electro-Optics and an independent consultant. He is one of the most widely known writers and educators in optical design, the author of three editions of Modern Optical Engineering, as well as Modern Lens Design and Practical Optical System Layout.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1552664023
• ISBN 13: 9781552664025
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 224