Charlotte Yates
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673701 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charlotte Yates |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charlotte |
| FAMILY NAME | Yates |
| SIGNATURE | YATES C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Provost and Vice-President (Academic), University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6431-4506 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Introduction: Public Policy and Canada's Automotive Industry
What Shapes Automotive Investment Decisions in a Contemporary Global Economy
Amid considerable public debate, governments across North America have offered rich incentive packages to entice investment from multinational automotive corporations. This article explores the relative importance of government incentives in influencing automotive corporations' decisions to invest in Canada on the basis of a data analysis of investment incentives in Canada and the United States, a case study of Toyota's decision to invest in the …
Dirty Work?’ Gender, Race and the Union in Industrial Cleaning
The study uses an eclectic framework and through an intersectional analysis and use of narratives explores the meaning of janitorial work, the gender division of labour ( GDL ), the unions and organizing for janitors engaged in industrial cleaning for a big cleaning company, P luto, in T oronto. Pluto was organized by the S ervice E mployees I nternational U nion ( SEIU ) in 2006. The study is based on the organizing drive for P luto and uses par…
Challenging Misconceptions about Organizing Women into Unions
In many countries, women are the fastest growing group of unionized workers. As unions scramble to restore their flagging membership, women become central to the process of union membership renewal. Yet survey data collected from union organizers in Canada show that unions are only partially meeting women’s demand for union representation, in large part because of gender bias in union organizing practices. To develop this argument, this article o…
Les ouvriers de Vauxhall face à la lean production
Cet article interroge les réactions ouvrières et syndicales face à la mise en œuvre de la production au plus juste dans l’usine d’Ellesmere Port, près de Liverpool. Le cas britannique est plein d’enseignements à plus d’un titre : d’une part, les directions nationales des syndicats ont en général accepté les réformes managériales parce qu’elles n’avaient pas le choix eu égard à la situation difficile de l’industrie automobile nationale et d’autre …
Forum: Reorganizing Unions Rebuilding the Labour Movement by Organizing the Unorganized: Strategic Considerations
(2004). Forum: Reorganizing Unions Rebuilding the Labour Movement by Organizing the Unorganized: Strategic Considerations. Studies in Political Economy: Vol. 74, No. 1, pp. 171-179
In Defence of Unions: A Critique of the Third Way
The prospects for the renewal of the Left constitute the focus of the final three essays which take on the so-called Third Way most closely associated with the Blair government and its intellectual advisors. Charlotte Yates takes direct aim at one of the main Third Way theorists, Anthony Giddens. Yates argues that Giddens and other Third Way theorists have been too quick to dismiss class in favour of a new individualism. If anything, trade unions…
Quality of working life in the automobile industry: A Canada‐UK comparative study
The paper examines the impact of lean production on indicators of the quality of life at work in the automotive industry and finds that it varies across companies and to a lesser extent between countries. The paper explains this by arguing that lean production seeks to impose new employment standards. This is a contested process where management's capacity to shift to new standards and labour's ability to protect its interests vary across workpla…
Unity and Diversity: Challenges to an Expanding Canadian Autoworkers' Union
Afin d'enrayer la chute du nombre de leurs adhérents, les syndicats élargissent leur base en procédant à des réorganisations et en fusionnant avec d'autres syndicats. Prenant comme exemple le syndicat des Travailleurs canadiens de l'automobile (TCA), cet article montre que, pour tirer parti de leur base élargie, les syndicats doivent soutenir les demandes diverses et opposées de leurs membres tout en créant une unité interne. Au fur et à mesure q…
Defining the Fault Lines: New Divisions in the Working Class
In case we needed further reminder, increased workers insecurity brings with it no automatic collective response. Using the case of Australian and Canadian autoworkers, the author traces how the tendencies towards social division amongst workers are re-articulated through the introduction of new managerial strategies, particularly lean production and Human Resource Management. But it also emphasises that these tendencies can be countered by a tra…
From Plant to Politics: The Auto Workers Union in Postwar Canada
Sisters of Solidarity
From Plant to Politics: The Autoworkers Union in Postwar Canada
From Plant to Politics: The Autoworkers Union in Postwar Canada
The Internal Dynamics of Union Power: Explaining Canadian Auto workers’ Militancy in the 1980s
In 1980, Canada, like most other Western industrialized nations, entered a period of economic decline. The North American auto industry was particularly hard hit. Faced with growing international competition from Japan and Europe, and falling consumer demand due to the recession, it was caught in a compound crisis
Canadian Union Movement in the 1980s: Perspectives from Union Leaders
Dirty Work?’ Gender, Race and the Union in Industrial Cleaning
The study uses an eclectic framework and through an intersectional analysis and use of narratives explores the meaning of janitorial work, the gender division of labour ( GDL ), the unions and organizing for janitors engaged in industrial cleaning for a big cleaning company, P luto, in T oronto. Pluto was organized by the S ervice E mployees I nternational U nion ( SEIU ) in 2006. The study is based on the organizing drive for P luto and uses par…
The Internal Dynamics of Union Power: Explaining Canadian Auto workers’ Militancy in the 1980s
In 1980, Canada, like most other Western industrialized nations, entered a period of economic decline. The North American auto industry was particularly hard hit. Faced with growing international competition from Japan and Europe, and falling consumer demand due to the recession, it was caught in a compound crisis
Unity and Diversity: Challenges to an Expanding Canadian Autoworkers' Union
Afin d'enrayer la chute du nombre de leurs adhérents, les syndicats élargissent leur base en procédant à des réorganisations et en fusionnant avec d'autres syndicats. Prenant comme exemple le syndicat des Travailleurs canadiens de l'automobile (TCA), cet article montre que, pour tirer parti de leur base élargie, les syndicats doivent soutenir les demandes diverses et opposées de leurs membres tout en créant une unité interne. Au fur et à mesure q…
Forum: Reorganizing Unions Rebuilding the Labour Movement by Organizing the Unorganized: Strategic Considerations
(2004). Forum: Reorganizing Unions Rebuilding the Labour Movement by Organizing the Unorganized: Strategic Considerations. Studies in Political Economy: Vol. 74, No. 1, pp. 171-179
Challenging Misconceptions about Organizing Women into Unions
In many countries, women are the fastest growing group of unionized workers. As unions scramble to restore their flagging membership, women become central to the process of union membership renewal. Yet survey data collected from union organizers in Canada show that unions are only partially meeting women’s demand for union representation, in large part because of gender bias in union organizing practices. To develop this argument, this article o…
Quality of working life in the automobile industry: A Canada‐UK comparative study
The paper examines the impact of lean production on indicators of the quality of life at work in the automotive industry and finds that it varies across companies and to a lesser extent between countries. The paper explains this by arguing that lean production seeks to impose new employment standards. This is a contested process where management's capacity to shift to new standards and labour's ability to protect its interests vary across workpla…
Defining the Fault Lines: New Divisions in the Working Class
In case we needed further reminder, increased workers insecurity brings with it no automatic collective response. Using the case of Australian and Canadian autoworkers, the author traces how the tendencies towards social division amongst workers are re-articulated through the introduction of new managerial strategies, particularly lean production and Human Resource Management. But it also emphasises that these tendencies can be countered by a tra…
From Plant to Politics: The Autoworkers Union in Postwar Canada
Introduction: Public Policy and Canada's Automotive Industry
What Shapes Automotive Investment Decisions in a Contemporary Global Economy
Amid considerable public debate, governments across North America have offered rich incentive packages to entice investment from multinational automotive corporations. This article explores the relative importance of government incentives in influencing automotive corporations' decisions to invest in Canada on the basis of a data analysis of investment incentives in Canada and the United States, a case study of Toyota's decision to invest in the …
Les ouvriers de Vauxhall face à la lean production
Cet article interroge les réactions ouvrières et syndicales face à la mise en œuvre de la production au plus juste dans l’usine d’Ellesmere Port, près de Liverpool. Le cas britannique est plein d’enseignements à plus d’un titre : d’une part, les directions nationales des syndicats ont en général accepté les réformes managériales parce qu’elles n’avaient pas le choix eu égard à la situation difficile de l’industrie automobile nationale et d’autre …
Canadian Union Movement in the 1980s: Perspectives from Union Leaders
The Internal Dynamics of Union Power: Explaining Canadian Auto workers’ Militancy in the 1980s
In 1980, Canada, like most other Western industrialized nations, entered a period of economic decline. The North American auto industry was particularly hard hit. Faced with growing international competition from Japan and Europe, and falling consumer demand due to the recession, it was caught in a compound crisis
Sisters of Solidarity
From Plant to Politics: The Autoworkers Union in Postwar Canada
From Plant to Politics: The Autoworkers Union in Postwar Canada
From Plant to Politics: The Auto Workers Union in Postwar Canada
Unity and Diversity: Challenges to an Expanding Canadian Autoworkers' Union
Afin d'enrayer la chute du nombre de leurs adhérents, les syndicats élargissent leur base en procédant à des réorganisations et en fusionnant avec d'autres syndicats. Prenant comme exemple le syndicat des Travailleurs canadiens de l'automobile (TCA), cet article montre que, pour tirer parti de leur base élargie, les syndicats doivent soutenir les demandes diverses et opposées de leurs membres tout en créant une unité interne. Au fur et à mesure q…
Defining the Fault Lines: New Divisions in the Working Class
In case we needed further reminder, increased workers insecurity brings with it no automatic collective response. Using the case of Australian and Canadian autoworkers, the author traces how the tendencies towards social division amongst workers are re-articulated through the introduction of new managerial strategies, particularly lean production and Human Resource Management. But it also emphasises that these tendencies can be countered by a tra…
Quality of working life in the automobile industry: A Canada‐UK comparative study
The paper examines the impact of lean production on indicators of the quality of life at work in the automotive industry and finds that it varies across companies and to a lesser extent between countries. The paper explains this by arguing that lean production seeks to impose new employment standards. This is a contested process where management's capacity to shift to new standards and labour's ability to protect its interests vary across workpla…
In Defence of Unions: A Critique of the Third Way
The prospects for the renewal of the Left constitute the focus of the final three essays which take on the so-called Third Way most closely associated with the Blair government and its intellectual advisors. Charlotte Yates takes direct aim at one of the main Third Way theorists, Anthony Giddens. Yates argues that Giddens and other Third Way theorists have been too quick to dismiss class in favour of a new individualism. If anything, trade unions…
Forum: Reorganizing Unions Rebuilding the Labour Movement by Organizing the Unorganized: Strategic Considerations
(2004). Forum: Reorganizing Unions Rebuilding the Labour Movement by Organizing the Unorganized: Strategic Considerations. Studies in Political Economy: Vol. 74, No. 1, pp. 171-179
Challenging Misconceptions about Organizing Women into Unions
In many countries, women are the fastest growing group of unionized workers. As unions scramble to restore their flagging membership, women become central to the process of union membership renewal. Yet survey data collected from union organizers in Canada show that unions are only partially meeting women’s demand for union representation, in large part because of gender bias in union organizing practices. To develop this argument, this article o…
Les ouvriers de Vauxhall face à la lean production
Cet article interroge les réactions ouvrières et syndicales face à la mise en œuvre de la production au plus juste dans l’usine d’Ellesmere Port, près de Liverpool. Le cas britannique est plein d’enseignements à plus d’un titre : d’une part, les directions nationales des syndicats ont en général accepté les réformes managériales parce qu’elles n’avaient pas le choix eu égard à la situation difficile de l’industrie automobile nationale et d’autre …
Dirty Work?’ Gender, Race and the Union in Industrial Cleaning
The study uses an eclectic framework and through an intersectional analysis and use of narratives explores the meaning of janitorial work, the gender division of labour ( GDL ), the unions and organizing for janitors engaged in industrial cleaning for a big cleaning company, P luto, in T oronto. Pluto was organized by the S ervice E mployees I nternational U nion ( SEIU ) in 2006. The study is based on the organizing drive for P luto and uses par…
What Shapes Automotive Investment Decisions in a Contemporary Global Economy
Amid considerable public debate, governments across North America have offered rich incentive packages to entice investment from multinational automotive corporations. This article explores the relative importance of government incentives in influencing automotive corporations' decisions to invest in Canada on the basis of a data analysis of investment incentives in Canada and the United States, a case study of Toyota's decision to invest in the …
Introduction: Public Policy and Canada's Automotive Industry
Political science (15 works) · Law (10 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Economic history (5 works)