Negotiating Risk, Seeking Security, Eroding Solidarity : Life and Work on the Border

Canada through the Canada Book Fund and the Canada Council for the Arts, the Nova Scotia Department of. [...] At the same time, government and labour market restructuring, combined with global economic dynamics, undercut the very basis for solidarity and the building of. [...] If women’s propensity for economic security is increasingly tied to the labour market and paid work and the conditions under which that labour is done are being transformed in different and unequal ways, these imperatives change women’s everyday social relations and engagement in society, which in turn produce gendered experiences and possibilities for solidarity. [...] The third site is the market in which people buy and sell labour and buy and sometimes sell consumable goods. [...] Neoliberalism privileges the market as the primary means by which to allocate resources and determine priori- ties, and professes the virtues of.