"A Garamond book".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: changing structures and processes in the new economy -- The "new economy" and capitalism today / Gregory Albo -- Work, welfare, and the new economy : the commodification of everything / Dave Broad and Garson Hunter -- Restructuring work and labour markets in the new economy : four processes / Wallace Clement ... [et al.] -- Global restructuring of value chains and class issues / Ursula Huws and Simone Dahlmann -- Part II: Transformations in work and labour processes -- Labour casualization in the public sector / Jane Stinson -- Dialling for service : transforming the public-sector workplace in Canada / Norene Pupo and Andrea Noack -- Student workers and the "new economy" of mid-sized cities : the cases of Peterborough and Kingston, Ontario / Steven Tufts and John Holmes -- Labour migration and temporary work : Canada's foreign-worker programs in the "new economy" / Mark Thomas -- Scripting taste, marking distinction : wine tourism and post-fordist restructuring in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia / Luis L.M. Aguiar and Tina Marten -- Regeneration among coal-mining communities in Canada and the UK : the role of culture / Larry Haiven -- Part III: unions and forms of resistance -- Militancy and resistance in the new economy / Linda Briskin -- Labour fragmentation and new forms of organizing and bargaining in the service sector / Dale Clark and Rosemary Warskett.