Sudbury's Working World

HAS THE NATURE OF WORK changed as technology has increased mechanization and automation? Have relations between labour and management changed under the impact of new ideas in industrial relations? Clement seeks answer these questions by examining the case of Canadian mining primarily since 1945. His focus is upon the International Nickel Company (Inco), the giant multinational among Canadian mining companies. In addition answering what it is like work in mining and smelting, Clement also wants to work towards an analysis, explanation, and understanding of class transformations in Canada since the Second World War. (9) Since he thinks that work is viewed by management and employees from diametrically opposing positions, he operates from the viewpoint that there are in fact two realities and that each reality is shaped by the actions of the other, or that the actions of each side can only be understood through the relationship of one side the other. (10) The study explores that relationship

Geography · Labor Movements and Unions