This proposed programme involves multiple academic and community partners (organizations) includi... more This proposed programme involves multiple academic and community partners (organizations) including the Volunteer Centre, the Guelph Community Health Centre, Immigrant Services, Community Resource Centre of North and Central Wellington, 10 Carden Shared Space Inc., Trellis Mental Health, and the area Funders Network (GW United Way, City of Guelph, Guelph Community Foundation, Trillium Foundation, Ministry of Immigration and Culture), Student Life, Cbase among others.
Confronting Capital: Critique and Engagement in Anthropology
1. Introduction: Confronting Anthropology: The Critical Enquiry of Capitalism Pauline Gardiner Ba... more 1. Introduction: Confronting Anthropology: The Critical Enquiry of Capitalism Pauline Gardiner Barber, Belinda Leach and Winnie Lem Part I: Politics 2. Making Connections: The Politics of Intellectual Labor in Colombia Leslie Gill 3. Security Anthropology and Northern Morazan, El Salvador: Confronting the Present There and Elsewhere Leigh Binford 4. Effective Politics: Band Elections and Decision Making in a Northern Onario Anishnaabek Community Krystyna Sieciechowicz 5. The Soviet Revenge: How the Unrecognized Soviet-Style Mechanisms of Contemporary Finance Capitalism Cause Social Crisis and Catastrophe in the West Don Kalb and Oane Visser Part II: Histories 6. To Die in the Silence of History: Tuberculosis Epidemics and Yup'ik Peoples of Southwestern Alaska Linda Green 7. Not the Same Old Stories: Labor Anthropology, Vulnerabilities and Solidarity Struggles Belinda Leach 8. Native Livelihoods and Capital Punishment in the Carolinas and Labrador Gerald Sider 9. "They Say W...
The most important conversation about health care in a generation is happening now. As proposals ... more The most important conversation about health care in a generation is happening now. As proposals for health care reform are offered and debated, it is critical that the needs of Minnesota's rural women and families are included and addressed. While health care disparities affect women in every community, barriers to care for rural women are exceptionally complex. In Greater Minnesota, a combination of poverty, uninsurance, provider shortages, and simple geography merge to create significant obstacles to basic health care services that impede the health outcomes of rural women. Rural women of color and American Indian women experience all of the above barriers in addition to cultural differences, racism and discrimination, language barriers, and migratory patterns that further fragment access to needed health care. 1 More than 94% of Planned Parenthood's 64,000 patients are women, and nearly 60% live in rural Minnesota. This report contextualizes the health status of rural women, summarizing important public health indicators, examining barriers to improving health outcomes, and exploring solutions for addressing health care access among this often overlooked population.
The New Right and the politics of work and family in Hamilton
ATLANTIS-HALIFAX CANADA-, 1997
This paper draws on a case study of Hamilton steelwork families to examine how the neo-conservati... more This paper draws on a case study of Hamilton steelwork families to examine how the neo-conservative agenda is incorporated and resisted in a specific, historically constituted locality. Here the local conditions of capital led to strong labour movement and relatively good pay permitting the emergence of the breadwinner family. It is argued that these factors affect the ways in which new right ideology and feminism are apprehended and incorporated into local culture.
Diverse workplaces, homogeneous towns: Some preliminary findings from rural Southern Ontario
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Ontario's rural communities create jobs in manufacturing, agriculture, and services, but fac... more Ontario's rural communities create jobs in manufacturing, agriculture, and services, but face two major labour market challenges. First, demand for labour is often met by transitory workers who live far from their jobs, such as those commuting from cities such as Toronto, London and ...
The most important conversation about health care in a generation is happening now. As proposals ... more The most important conversation about health care in a generation is happening now. As proposals for health care reform are offered and debated, it is critical that the needs of Minnesota's rural women and families are included and addressed. While health care disparities affect women in every community, barriers to care for rural women are exceptionally complex. In Greater Minnesota, a combination of poverty, uninsurance, provider shortages, and simple geography merge to create significant obstacles to basic health care services that impede the health outcomes of rural women. Rural women of color and American Indian women experience all of the above barriers in addition to cultural differences, racism and discrimination, language barriers, and migratory patterns that further fragment access to needed health care. 1 More than 94% of Planned Parenthood's 64,000 patients are women, and nearly 60% live in rural Minnesota. This report contextualizes the health status of rural women, summarizing important public health indicators, examining barriers to improving health outcomes, and exploring solutions for addressing health care access among this often overlooked population.
Women’s employment in traditionally male manufacturing jobs is hinderedby both formal and informa... more Women’s employment in traditionally male manufacturing jobs is hinderedby both formal and informal structures (Levine 2009). In light of recent recession-based changes in the Ontario economy, it is becoming more important forwomen to maintain well-paying manufacturing employment. Women facedifferent challenges in the home and workplace thanmen. This paperinvestigates the Canadian Auto Workers’ (CAW) Union’s unique women’sadvocacy program, as a promising mechanism to secure women’s safety at homeand at work, while protecting their employment status. Drawing onethnographic research with women auto workers and union women, ourfindings suggest that the CAW’s women’s advocacy program is innovative andbeneficial in maintaining women’s employment as they attend to personalproblems. This program can be extended throughout other locals and unions toassist women dealing with violence and other issuesrelated to work-lifeexperience.
Caring at a Distance: Rural-urban Migration, Working Women and the Compassionate Care Challenge
Migration from rural to urban communities is a life-long process for a family involving complex a... more Migration from rural to urban communities is a life-long process for a family involving complex and shifting decisions about migration, labour market activity, and care giving/receiving in which gender is a primary factor. Care provider and recipient are part of a cycle of rural in and out-migration that connect social policy, family members, elder caregivers and their workplaces in ways that are not yet fully understood. This preliminary study shifts the conceptualization of rural to urban migration away from one that views it as a single event, to that of a process that takes place and is managed at different stages in the family life of most Canadians, drawing in multiple actors with multiple roles. The study contains new discoveries about how working women who migrate from rural communities manage eldercare for those they leave behind, and how women young and old make associated decisions over a lifetime about if, when and where to move. Employed women caregivers who work in urb...
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