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Labour Geography and the 2010 Vancouver Olympics
Studies in Political Economy
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Labour Geography and the 2010 Vancouver Olympics
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Nelson, Mathew
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While there now exists a broad literature on the political economy of spectacles such as the Olympics and world fairs,1 very little of this research has dealt in depth with the role of organized labour in shaping and resisting such events. Using the 2010 Vancouver and Paralympic Winter Games as a case study, this paper focuses on the role played by labour unions in the bid for, and subsequent development and use of, Olympics facilities. Social justice activists in Vancouver had early on identified major problems with the Olympics, and began organizing before the city was granted the bid by the International Olympic Committee in 2003. The anti-Olympic movement put forth a number of wide-ranging criticisms, pointing to the misuse of public funds, the loss of civil liberties, the construction of Olympic venues on unceded Indigenous territories, the militarization of the police, and the installation of nearly 1,000 surveillance cameras. While there is some basis for the criticism that organized labour was largely absent from anti-2010 opposition,2 such an approach is far too simplistic.
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Studies in Political Economy
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2010-12-06
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application/pdf
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http://spe.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/spe/article/view/14604
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Studies in Political Economy; Vol 86 (2010): The New Inequality
1918-7033 0707-8552 |
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eng
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http://spe.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/spe/article/view/14604/11598
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