IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/woemps/v3y1989i2p157-178.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Peripheralizing Core Labour Markets?: The Case of the Canadian Meat Packing Industry

Author

Listed:
  • Joel Novek

    (Department of Sociology University of Winnipeg Winnipeg Manitoba Canada R3B 2E9)

Abstract

Recent debates in the sociology of work and employment have drawn a pessimistic picture of the leading mass production industries in the advanced nations and the core labour markets they sustain. It has been claimed that such industries are in decline and that their workers face an assault on their jobs, wage levels and working conditions. The Canadian meat packing industry has been selected as a case study of a mass production industry and a core labour market under the stress of recessionary restructuring. In that industry, changes in production technology, markets and industrial organization are contributing to a reduction in employment, relative wage levels and working conditions. The costs of a more uncertain economic environment have been transferred to the labour force. However, meat packing remains in essence a mass production industry whose problems are as much industry-specific as they are an instance of wider global trends.

Suggested Citation

  • Joel Novek, 1989. "Peripheralizing Core Labour Markets?: The Case of the Canadian Meat Packing Industry," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 3(2), pages 157-178, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:woemps:v:3:y:1989:i:2:p:157-178
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://wes.sagepub.com/content/3/2/157.abstract
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:woemps:v:3:y:1989:i:2:p:157-178. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.britsoc.co.uk/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.