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Toyotaism Meets the 60-Hour Work Week: Coercion, Consent, and the Regulation of Working Time
Studies in Political Economy
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Toyotaism Meets the 60-Hour Work Week: Coercion, Consent, and the Regulation of Working Time
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Thomas, Mark
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The articles by Mark Thomas and Wendy McKeen challenge the notion that the expanded role of markets characteristic of neoliberalism implies a less interventionist state. Thomas explores the implications of the 2001 revisions to the Employment Standards Act in Ontario, which increased the weekly maximum number of work hours to 60 while loosening the requirements for overtime pay. Based on a case study involving interviews with several workers from the Ontario Toyota plant, Thomas argues that the changes involve a re-regulation of the labour market that enhances employer-centred flexibility via the construction of a new form of time discipline. McKeen analyzes the 1999 National Children’s Agenda, a package of federal and provincial income support and social service programs, with particular attention given to “‘Healthy Beginnings’ in Nova Scotia.” She argues that these policies express a new paradigmatic approach to social policy that combines an augmented belief in individualism with unprecedented state intrusion into the daily lives of recipients.
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Studies in Political Economy
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2010-05-25
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application/pdf
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http://spe.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/spe/article/view/5191
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Studies in Political Economy; Vol 80 (2007): Bread and Water Politics
1918-7033 0707-8552 |
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eng
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http://spe.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/spe/article/view/5191/2050
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