Technology & Engineering Social Aspects
Wheel of Fortune
Work and Life in the Age of Falling Expectations
- Publisher
- Between the Lines
- Initial publish date
- May 1995
- Category
- Social Aspects, Labor, Training
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780921284895
- Publish Date
- May 1995
- List Price
- $19.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781926662602
- Publish Date
- May 1995
- List Price
- $13.95
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Description
Jamie Swift combines sharp-eyed journalism that brings out the nuances of daily life with a penetrating analysis of jobless recovery. He describes the emerging world of work through the eyes and experiences of people in Kingston and Windsor——two Ontario cities with roots in the pre-industrial past, places poised for the post-industrial information age.
About the author
Kingston writer Jamie Swift is the author of a dozen books, most recently The Vimy Trap, or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Great War (with Ian McKay), finalist for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and the Canadian Historical Association Prize for the Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History. He has held the Michener Foundation fellowship for public service journalism and was a longtime documentary producer for CBC-Radio’s “Ideas.” In addition to the writing life, he is a social justice advocate. He taught “Critical Perspectives on Business” at the Smith School of Business, Queen’s University for many years.