INEQUALITY MATTERS

The New Economy:Work, Working, Workers, Workplaces

NB Announcement

• No class on Thursday (June 6)• Submit critical reflection on ch 9 (Education) by

Friday Noon• Submit CR on ch 10 (Media) by noon Tu June 11• Combined class (Educ + Media) on Tu June 11

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SECTION 3 - Institutional Inequality

• Importance of Inst.• Institutions once oasis of stability• Institutions under pressure to

change/accommodate• Yet resist because of logic - conventions vs rules• Confusion: Identity crisis of confidence• Create new inequalities/reinforce old inequali.

INSTITUTIONS

• Sites of inequality - stress/self esteem issues - ageism - workplace accidents/fatalities - violence in the workplace

• Reproduce patterns of inequality in society (jobless economy, workers as liability, economy #1)

The New Economy

• From mfg/resource based economy + Fordist model of work, working, workplace

(a) Knowledge based, specialized service based - post Fordist/flexibility/flattened/creativity - networked / digital technology -globalization - productive loop of cost effective sites

- ideological shifts (neo-liberalism; shareholder value; just in time) (b) Precarious jobs/Prosaic - fordist models + resource based© pyramid work/ing/place or Hour glass workplace

Take home question (last term)

• Describe the new economy, indicate how it is creating new patterns of work, working, and workplace • Generates new patterns of social inequalities

Chapter Overview

Work

Working

Workers

Workplace

Three tiered work

PRIVILEGED ROUTINE/MUNDANE/PROSAIC

PRECARIOUS

Contract University Work

Three tiered Working

24/7 35 hour week Life without sustained working

I BM + Apple Model

Creative, innovative, relative autonomy

Walmart model

From social services to fast food serving

Precarious

Time to kill

The New Workers: Diversifying workers

• Temporary Foreign Workers (338 000 in 2012)• 2011 = 20% fb + racialized• 2031 = 26% fb, 31% racialized * Challenges - differences - Highly Educated Canadian-born Workers

The New Workplace:Workplace Accommodation

MONOCULTURAL MULTICULTURAL MULTIVERSAL

Workplace Accommodation:Integration vs Inclusivity

INTEGRATION INCLUSIVITY

Policing: the New Workplace

REACTIVE-INCIDENT DRIVEN ‘policing the monoculture’

COMMUNITY BASED/multicultural ‘policing the mosaic’

COMMUNITIES-DRIVEN/multiversal ‘Policing the kaleidoscope’