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Political Science Economic Policy

Precarious Employment

Causes, Consequences and Remedies

by (author) Stephanie Procyk, Wayne Lewchuk & John Shields

Publisher
Fernwood Publishing
Initial publish date
Dec 2017
Category
Economic Policy, Labor & Industrial Relations
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781552669822
    Publish Date
    Dec 2017
    List Price
    $30.00

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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.

About the authors

 

Stephanie Procyk is the manager of research, public policy and evaluation at United Way Toronto and York.

 

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Wayne Lewchuk is a professor of labour studies and economics at McMaster University.Marlea Clarke is an assistant professor in political science at the University of Victoria and a research associate of the Labour and Enterprise Policy Research Group (LEP) at the University of Cape Town.Alice de Wolff is a research coordinator who has managed projects and organizations related to equity, employment, adult education, and international development. She was a member of York University's Alliance on Contingent Employment.

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Born in NY City, Shields holds a Masters Degree in theology from St. Paul’s College in Washington, DC, where he worked with Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement. He went on to teach popular theology in Canada and the US. He left the church and moved to British Columbia in 1969. An interest in social justice led him to the labour movement where he was a champion for women’s equality work. He was President of the BC Government and Service Employees Union (BCGEU) for fourteen years. A deep interest in spirituality led him to contemporary cosmology, which is illuminating a deeper understanding of the universe. For the past twenty years he has explored the connection between science and spirituality. He now lives in Victoria, B.C., and has been teaching Labour Relations and Negotiations at Vancouver Island University.

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