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Mining town crisis : globalization, labour and resistance in Sudbury

Title
Mining town crisis : globalization, labour and resistance in Sudbury / David Leadbetter, ed.
Publication
Halifax : Fernwood Pub., 2008.

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Additional Authors
Leadbeater, David (Lecturer in economics)
Description
296 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
Summary
"Sudbury is the largest hardrock mining centre in North America and among the largest in the world. Given the enormous mineral wealth that exists in the Sudbury Basin, one might think that prosperity would abound and that cultural, educational, health and social-welfare institutions would be of the highest order, existing within a well-maintained and attractive physical infrastructure. But this is not the Sudbury that people know. This book explores key aspects of Sudbury's economic, health and social conditions. It analyzes how globalization and corporate power in a hinterland mining town have impacted on working people, how and why resistance has emerged and why alternative directions are needed. While Sudbury is the focus of this book, the Sudbury experience offers important lessons for other mining and resource communities."--pub. website.
Subject
  • Public health > Ontario > Sudbury
  • Labor > Ontario > Sudbury
  • Globalization
  • Working class > Ontario > Sudbury
  • Corporate power > Ontario > Sudbury
  • Resource-based communities
  • Public health > Ontario > Greater Sudbury
  • Working class > Ontario > Greater Sudbury
  • Corporate power > Ontario > Greater Sudbury
  • Company towns
  • Santé publique > Ontario > Grand Sudbury
  • Travail > Ontario > Grand Sudbury
  • Mondialisation
  • Travailleurs > Ontario > Grand Sudbury
  • Pouvoir économique > Ontario > Grand Sudbury
  • Villes fermées
  • Communautés dépendantes des ressources
  • globalism
  • Company towns
  • Corporate power
  • Economic history
  • Globalization
  • Labor
  • Public health
  • Resource-based communities
  • Social conditions
  • Working class
  • Sudbury (Greater Sudbury, Ont.) > Economic conditions
  • Sudbury (Greater Sudbury, Ont.) > Social conditions
  • Grand Sudbury (Ont.) > Conditions économiques
  • Grand Sudbury (Ont.) > Conditions sociales
  • Ontario > Sudbury (Greater Sudbury)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references: p. 276-293.
Contents
Introduction : Sudbury's crisis of development and democracy / David Leadbeater -- Mine mill Local 598/CAW reaches a turning point / Rick Grylls -- Strikebreaking and the corporate agenda at The Sudbury star / Denis St. Pierre -- Public-sector unions in Sadbury / John Closs -- The state and civility in Sudbury / Don Kuyek -- Environmental impacts of nickel mining : four case studies, three continents, and two centuries / Evan Edinger -- Some aspects of health and health care in the Sudbury area / K.V. Nagarajan -- Sudbury sleep / Kate Leadbeater -- The failing health of children and youth in northern Ontario / Kate C. Tilleczek -- Hunger and food insecurity in Greater Sudbury / Carole Suschnigg -- "Sometimes I wonder ..." : language, racism, and the language of racism in Sudbury / Roger Spielmann -- Excerpt from an untitled poem / Patrice Desbiens -- French Ontario : two realities / Donald Dennie -- Traditional elites and the democratic deficit : some challenges for education in French-speaking Ontario / Francois Boudreau, translated by Kate Leadbeater -- Dispatches of longing : progressive art and culture in Sudbury / Laurie McGauley -- Lessons from the little blue schoolhouse / Ruth Reyno -- The rise and decline of Local 6500 United Steelworkers of America / Bruce McKeigan -- My view from the blackened rocks / Cathy Mulroy -- Sudbury Saturday night / Tom Connors.
ISBN
  • 9781552662731
  • 155266273X
LCCN
2008431781
OCLC
  • ocn234288462
  • 234288462
  • SCSB-1491618
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library