Janitors and Sweatshop Citizenship in Canada

The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism: Cleaners in the Global Economy

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 16-36

  Aguiar, Luis L M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

"brazilianization" of workplace conditions; Canada and "rediscovery" of sweatshops; Canada, janitors and sweatshop citizenship; Entrenched janitors in sweatshop conditions; Industrial citizenship to sweatshop citizenship; Neoliberal free market utopia, unleashed by globalization; Neoliberal restructuring, and deteriorating working conditions; Neoliberalis, and sweatshop citizenship status in Canada; Neoliberalism, a departure from the past; Welfare state dismantling, giving way to privatization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886867426     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444397406.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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