Manufacturing Meltdown: Reshaping Steel Work

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

ISBN 10: 1552664023 / ISBN 13: 9781552664025

Published by Fernwood Publishing Company, Limited, Peterborough, ON, Canada, 2011

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Clean sound copy with unmarked text. Securely packaged! 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. o2.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Manufacturing Meltdown: Reshaping Steel Work
• Publisher: Fernwood Publishing Company, Limited, Peterborough, ON, Canada
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1552664023
• ISBN 13: 9781552664025
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

In the 1980s, following decades of booming business, the global steel industry went into a precipitous decline, which necessitated significant restructuring. Management demanded workers’ increased participation in evermore temporary and insecure labour. Engaging the workers at the flagship Stelco plant in Hamilton, the authors document new management strategies and the responses of unionized workforces to them. These investigations provide valuable insights into the dramatic changes occurring within the Canadian steel industry.

About the Authors

D.W. Livingstone is Canada Research Chair in Lifelong Learning and Work and professor emeritus in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto.

Dorothy E. Smith is professor emerita in the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies at OISE/UT and adjunct professor, Department of Sociology, University of Victoria.

Warren Smith worked at Stelco (now U.S. Steel Canada) in Hamilton Ontario from 1967 until his recent retirement. He was president of USW local 1005 from 1997 to 2003.