Getting By in Hard Times describes the experiences of daily life for predominantly white, working class women and men during the period of "economic restructuring" begun in the 1980s. Luxton and Corman show how the shift from a pattern where women were full-time housewives and men were income earners, to one where women are increasingly income earners as well, is altering the experience of everyday life
Based on a case study conducted from 1980 to 1996, of households where one person was employed at Stelco's manufacturing plant in Hamilton, Ontario, the book examines how working class families make a living by combining paid employment and unpaid domestic labour. During this period of government cutbacks the loss of secure employment for men (as the steel plant cut its labour force by about two-thirds), combined with women's increasing participation in the labour force, resulted in lower standards of living, reduced income, and the imposition of more unpaid work on family households.
Getting By in Hard Times examines how growing insecurities undermined class politics while increasing gender, racial, and ethnic tensions. By focusing on the daily coping strategies of white working class women and men, the book shows the human face of changing gender, race, and class politics in Canada.

Getting By in Hard Times: Gendered Labour at Home and on the Job

Politics & Social Sciences

Luxton, Meg

Corman, June

Social Sciences

University of Toronto Press

A study of sttelworkers emplyed at, or laid off from, Stelco's Hilton Works in Hamilton, Ontario. Situated in the context of the global restructuring of capitalism. The authors contend that more than ever before the dynamics of the whole world economy limit and shape the actions of its parts - a process ferred to as "globalizing the local." Restructuring is taking place in response to global demands. As the global net tightens, local regions and industry have less and less autonomy for independent development. Stelco is best conceived as a site of the worldwide process of capital accumulation. How has this restructuring impacted on local regions and local workers? This questions is the focus of this book, often answered in workers' and managements' own words.

Recasting Steel Labour: The Stelco Story

Business & Money

Livingstone, D.W.

Secombe, Wally

Economics

Fernwood Publishing

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