Abstract 1. argue the advantages of social network analysis for describing systematically the com... more Abstract 1. argue the advantages of social network analysis for describing systematically the composition, structure, and content of interpersonal ties in naturally occurring settings and for relating these network descriptions to the study of stress, social support, and other health care issues/social network analysts have developed a battery of concepts and methods for studying how structures of relationships in social systems allocate resources/the model [the network analytic model] provides powerful tools for getting beyond current surface ...
Drawing on the studies of citizenship practices and health and safety literature, this paper expl... more Drawing on the studies of citizenship practices and health and safety literature, this paper explores the reporting of workplace injuries and hazards among Latin American immigrants in Southwestern Ontario. The paper examines how (under-)reporting is shaped by three conditions: the knowledge of workers’ rights, job (in)security, and ethnic identities. Recognizing knowledge as a significant factor which enables or constrains the capacity to claim one’s citizenship rights, we demonstrate that even when Latin American immigrant workers develop a good understanding of their rights, many are still unable to assert them. We argue that this lack of rights access reflects the intersection of two relevant factors – workplace (in)security and ethnic and immigrant identities – which discourage their reporting. In particular, we demonstrate that since Latin American immigrants often find themselves in subordinate positions in the Canadian labour market, they choose not to report injuries and unsafe working environments for fear of discipline and reprisals. In addition, immigrant, regional, ethnic, and home country identities, all of which can limit or contradict a full sense of citizenship, appear to exert some influence on the way workers understand their workplace rights. The paper is based on 44 in-depth interviews conducted with Latin American immigrants in 2010.Cet article analyse les déclarations sur les dangers et les accidents dans le milieu du travail parmi les immigrants latino-américains du sud-ouest de l’Ontario, en s’appuyant sur les études des pratiques citoyennes et sur la bibliographie dans le domaine de la santé et la sécurité. L’article examine la manière dont ces déclarations sont influencées par trois facteurs : la connaissance des droits des travailleurs, la sécurité d’emploi et les identités ethniques. Bien que la connaissance soit un facteur significatif qui favorise ou empêche la capacité d’affirmer ses droits de citoyenneté, les auteurs démontrent que, même quand les travailleurs migrants d’origine latino-américaine développent une bonne compréhension de leurs droits, beaucoup d’entre eux ont de la difficulté à les exercer. Les auteurs expliquent que ce manque d’accès aux droits reflète l’intersection de deux facteurs importants – l’insécurité dans le lieu de travail et les identités ethniques et immigrantes – qui découragent leur exercice. En particulier, on démontre que, du fait que les immigrants latinoaméricains se trouvent souvent dans des positions subordonnée dans le marché du travail canadien, ils choisissent de ne pas déclarer les accidents et les conditions dangereuses des milieux professionnels en raison de la crainte des sanctions. Aussi, les identités immigrantes, régionales, ethniques ou du pays d’origine, toutes lesquelles peuvent limiter ou contredire un sens plein de la citoyenneté, semblent avoir une influence sur la façon dont les travailleurs comprennent leurs droits. L’article porte sur 44 entrevues en profondeur réalisées auprès d’immigrants latino-américains en 2010.
This article examines the health and safety perceptions and practices of conventional, no till an... more This article examines the health and safety perceptions and practices of conventional, no till and organic grain farmers in Ontario Canada. Based on 12 intensive case studies, the analysis examines whether different restructuring and environmental orientations are related to different approaches to occupational health and safety. The analysis suggests that although there is a substantial level of awareness and knowledge of health and safety hazards among all the farmers, significant differences in practices are linked in complex and somewhat unexpected ways to the production and environmental approaches of the farmers. In particular, while economic constraints and rationales provide an overriding basis for risk-taking across all the farmers, the level and form that this takes is shaped by farmer orientations to farm management and the environment. The article also links both the common patterns and variations in farmer practices to corporate and government discourses on the prevention of environmental and occupational injuries, suggesting that mixed messages undermine any effort to intensify farmer commitment to safety.
This paper seeks to explain variations in gender participation in farm production and decision-ma... more This paper seeks to explain variations in gender participation in farm production and decision-making through an analysis of organic farm types, sizes, and orientations. Based on both survey and case study data, the analysis shows that female farmers on vegetable farms and mixed livestock/ cash crop farms are more likely to be involved in farm production and management than women on field crop farms, where mechanization and capital intensive production is much higher. The links to ideological orientations and motivations are also examined, suggesting that farmers with more conventional orientations to organic farming are also less likely to support gender equality. * The authors acknowledge the financial support of the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
... 11 This is not to say that considerable enforcement discretion was not used in the past pri... more ... 11 This is not to say that considerable enforcement discretion was not used in the past prior to the introduction of this approach (Geary 1985; De Lint and Hall 2002). ... Consistent with communitypolicing, the main thrust of the current approach is to control behaviour ...
This article elaborates the concept of knowledge activism as a way of understanding effective hea... more This article elaborates the concept of knowledge activism as a way of understanding effective health and safety representation within the current Ontario legal regime of internal responsibility. Based on interviews with unionized health and safety representatives in the auto industry, we suggest that knowledge activism is a form of political activism by worker health and safety representatives that is organized around the strategic collection and tactical use of technical, scientific and legal knowledge. We argue that knowledge activism is more effective with reference to larger scale changes in work processes, workplace organization and technologies, and with reference to occupational health issues. Knowledge activism is conceptualized as an effective adaptation to a legislative regime which involves worker representatives in decisions without providing substantive power or proactive enforcement support.
The post-war model of agriculture has had a profound impact on the social and technical relations... more The post-war model of agriculture has had a profound impact on the social and technical relations of production and their spatial expression. One often-noted consequence is the widespread destruction of direct and localized links between agricultural producers and consumers. Within the conventional industrial paradigm, and enhanced by globalization, producers have become providers of agricultural inputs which are processed, transformed, and shipped great distances to urban consumers who rarely have any direct contact with farmers or food in its original form. By distancing food production from consumption, producers forced consumers to rely on huge supermarket chains to provide them with their daily bread with little understanding of how and why food is produced and processed in certain ways, or what the consequences are of operating in this fashion. While the lack of consumer knowledge and control over the food we eat has become somewhat more visible in recent years with the genetic engineering and other food-related controversies, consumers are largely unaware of the enormous financial costs associated with subsidization, transportation, and processing, the harmful impact on food quality and diet, the environmental pollution and soil degradation, and the continued loss of family farms to bankruptcy .2
Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, 2008
... WILLEM DE LINT Victoria University of Wellington ALAN HALL University of Windsor ... Des chan... more ... WILLEM DE LINT Victoria University of Wellington ALAN HALL University of Windsor ... Des changements B l'interieur des forces policieres tels que la mise sur pied de la police communautaire sont nussi consideres comme des explications importantes. ...
Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, 2008
As used here, the term "agricultural community" refers to the federal and provincial departments ... more As used here, the term "agricultural community" refers to the federal and provincial departments of agriculture, the major agribusiness firms including the major chemical, processor and retailer corporations, the agricultural research community including universities and agricultural colleges, and the major farmer organizations including the Ontario Federation of Agriculture and the various marketing boards.
Résumé Dans cet article, nous étudions l'interdépendance institutionnelle entre les cours et ... more Résumé Dans cet article, nous étudions l'interdépendance institutionnelle entre les cours et la police lors de la gouvernance du piquetage. L'analyse apporte des éclaircissements sur la manière dont des droits économiques et sécuritaires sont mis en équilibre avec des droits politiques et civiles dans l'affirmation oblique du fondement d'autorité qui est sans doute plus puissante dans une situation de construction indirecte au jour le jour. Nous situons d'abord le concept de «jugement par temporisation» dans la littérature contemporaine sur la gouvernance, pour l'appliquer ensuite à une enquête sur l'évaluation par les cours de demandes d'injonction dans des cas de piquetage et la compréhension des responsabilités policières dans ces cas. Nous analysons la perception qu'a la police de son rôle dans la gouvernance du piquetage et montrons comment tant la cour que la police emploient des pratiques de temporisation pour éviter des décisions difficile...
The personal networks of East Yorkers provide many resources which enable them to cope with routi... more The personal networks of East Yorkers provide many resources which enable them to cope with routine and extraordinary opportunities, pressures and contingencies, give them ladders to change their personal situations, and give them levers to change their social situations. We use both quantitative and qualitative information from our in—depth study of thirty-three East Yorkers to describe such social networks and to show how they function in the contemporary Canadian division of labour. We show that while most" ...
Abstract 1. argue the advantages of social network analysis for describing systematically the com... more Abstract 1. argue the advantages of social network analysis for describing systematically the composition, structure, and content of interpersonal ties in naturally occurring settings and for relating these network descriptions to the study of stress, social support, and other health care issues/social network analysts have developed a battery of concepts and methods for studying how structures of relationships in social systems allocate resources/the model [the network analytic model] provides powerful tools for getting beyond current surface ...
Drawing on the studies of citizenship practices and health and safety literature, this paper expl... more Drawing on the studies of citizenship practices and health and safety literature, this paper explores the reporting of workplace injuries and hazards among Latin American immigrants in Southwestern Ontario. The paper examines how (under-)reporting is shaped by three conditions: the knowledge of workers’ rights, job (in)security, and ethnic identities. Recognizing knowledge as a significant factor which enables or constrains the capacity to claim one’s citizenship rights, we demonstrate that even when Latin American immigrant workers develop a good understanding of their rights, many are still unable to assert them. We argue that this lack of rights access reflects the intersection of two relevant factors – workplace (in)security and ethnic and immigrant identities – which discourage their reporting. In particular, we demonstrate that since Latin American immigrants often find themselves in subordinate positions in the Canadian labour market, they choose not to report injuries and unsafe working environments for fear of discipline and reprisals. In addition, immigrant, regional, ethnic, and home country identities, all of which can limit or contradict a full sense of citizenship, appear to exert some influence on the way workers understand their workplace rights. The paper is based on 44 in-depth interviews conducted with Latin American immigrants in 2010.Cet article analyse les déclarations sur les dangers et les accidents dans le milieu du travail parmi les immigrants latino-américains du sud-ouest de l’Ontario, en s’appuyant sur les études des pratiques citoyennes et sur la bibliographie dans le domaine de la santé et la sécurité. L’article examine la manière dont ces déclarations sont influencées par trois facteurs : la connaissance des droits des travailleurs, la sécurité d’emploi et les identités ethniques. Bien que la connaissance soit un facteur significatif qui favorise ou empêche la capacité d’affirmer ses droits de citoyenneté, les auteurs démontrent que, même quand les travailleurs migrants d’origine latino-américaine développent une bonne compréhension de leurs droits, beaucoup d’entre eux ont de la difficulté à les exercer. Les auteurs expliquent que ce manque d’accès aux droits reflète l’intersection de deux facteurs importants – l’insécurité dans le lieu de travail et les identités ethniques et immigrantes – qui découragent leur exercice. En particulier, on démontre que, du fait que les immigrants latinoaméricains se trouvent souvent dans des positions subordonnée dans le marché du travail canadien, ils choisissent de ne pas déclarer les accidents et les conditions dangereuses des milieux professionnels en raison de la crainte des sanctions. Aussi, les identités immigrantes, régionales, ethniques ou du pays d’origine, toutes lesquelles peuvent limiter ou contredire un sens plein de la citoyenneté, semblent avoir une influence sur la façon dont les travailleurs comprennent leurs droits. L’article porte sur 44 entrevues en profondeur réalisées auprès d’immigrants latino-américains en 2010.
This article examines the health and safety perceptions and practices of conventional, no till an... more This article examines the health and safety perceptions and practices of conventional, no till and organic grain farmers in Ontario Canada. Based on 12 intensive case studies, the analysis examines whether different restructuring and environmental orientations are related to different approaches to occupational health and safety. The analysis suggests that although there is a substantial level of awareness and knowledge of health and safety hazards among all the farmers, significant differences in practices are linked in complex and somewhat unexpected ways to the production and environmental approaches of the farmers. In particular, while economic constraints and rationales provide an overriding basis for risk-taking across all the farmers, the level and form that this takes is shaped by farmer orientations to farm management and the environment. The article also links both the common patterns and variations in farmer practices to corporate and government discourses on the prevention of environmental and occupational injuries, suggesting that mixed messages undermine any effort to intensify farmer commitment to safety.
This paper seeks to explain variations in gender participation in farm production and decision-ma... more This paper seeks to explain variations in gender participation in farm production and decision-making through an analysis of organic farm types, sizes, and orientations. Based on both survey and case study data, the analysis shows that female farmers on vegetable farms and mixed livestock/ cash crop farms are more likely to be involved in farm production and management than women on field crop farms, where mechanization and capital intensive production is much higher. The links to ideological orientations and motivations are also examined, suggesting that farmers with more conventional orientations to organic farming are also less likely to support gender equality. * The authors acknowledge the financial support of the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
... 11 This is not to say that considerable enforcement discretion was not used in the past pri... more ... 11 This is not to say that considerable enforcement discretion was not used in the past prior to the introduction of this approach (Geary 1985; De Lint and Hall 2002). ... Consistent with communitypolicing, the main thrust of the current approach is to control behaviour ...
This article elaborates the concept of knowledge activism as a way of understanding effective hea... more This article elaborates the concept of knowledge activism as a way of understanding effective health and safety representation within the current Ontario legal regime of internal responsibility. Based on interviews with unionized health and safety representatives in the auto industry, we suggest that knowledge activism is a form of political activism by worker health and safety representatives that is organized around the strategic collection and tactical use of technical, scientific and legal knowledge. We argue that knowledge activism is more effective with reference to larger scale changes in work processes, workplace organization and technologies, and with reference to occupational health issues. Knowledge activism is conceptualized as an effective adaptation to a legislative regime which involves worker representatives in decisions without providing substantive power or proactive enforcement support.
The post-war model of agriculture has had a profound impact on the social and technical relations... more The post-war model of agriculture has had a profound impact on the social and technical relations of production and their spatial expression. One often-noted consequence is the widespread destruction of direct and localized links between agricultural producers and consumers. Within the conventional industrial paradigm, and enhanced by globalization, producers have become providers of agricultural inputs which are processed, transformed, and shipped great distances to urban consumers who rarely have any direct contact with farmers or food in its original form. By distancing food production from consumption, producers forced consumers to rely on huge supermarket chains to provide them with their daily bread with little understanding of how and why food is produced and processed in certain ways, or what the consequences are of operating in this fashion. While the lack of consumer knowledge and control over the food we eat has become somewhat more visible in recent years with the genetic engineering and other food-related controversies, consumers are largely unaware of the enormous financial costs associated with subsidization, transportation, and processing, the harmful impact on food quality and diet, the environmental pollution and soil degradation, and the continued loss of family farms to bankruptcy .2
Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, 2008
... WILLEM DE LINT Victoria University of Wellington ALAN HALL University of Windsor ... Des chan... more ... WILLEM DE LINT Victoria University of Wellington ALAN HALL University of Windsor ... Des changements B l'interieur des forces policieres tels que la mise sur pied de la police communautaire sont nussi consideres comme des explications importantes. ...
Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, 2008
As used here, the term "agricultural community" refers to the federal and provincial departments ... more As used here, the term "agricultural community" refers to the federal and provincial departments of agriculture, the major agribusiness firms including the major chemical, processor and retailer corporations, the agricultural research community including universities and agricultural colleges, and the major farmer organizations including the Ontario Federation of Agriculture and the various marketing boards.
Résumé Dans cet article, nous étudions l'interdépendance institutionnelle entre les cours et ... more Résumé Dans cet article, nous étudions l'interdépendance institutionnelle entre les cours et la police lors de la gouvernance du piquetage. L'analyse apporte des éclaircissements sur la manière dont des droits économiques et sécuritaires sont mis en équilibre avec des droits politiques et civiles dans l'affirmation oblique du fondement d'autorité qui est sans doute plus puissante dans une situation de construction indirecte au jour le jour. Nous situons d'abord le concept de «jugement par temporisation» dans la littérature contemporaine sur la gouvernance, pour l'appliquer ensuite à une enquête sur l'évaluation par les cours de demandes d'injonction dans des cas de piquetage et la compréhension des responsabilités policières dans ces cas. Nous analysons la perception qu'a la police de son rôle dans la gouvernance du piquetage et montrons comment tant la cour que la police emploient des pratiques de temporisation pour éviter des décisions difficile...
The personal networks of East Yorkers provide many resources which enable them to cope with routi... more The personal networks of East Yorkers provide many resources which enable them to cope with routine and extraordinary opportunities, pressures and contingencies, give them ladders to change their personal situations, and give them levers to change their social situations. We use both quantitative and qualitative information from our in—depth study of thirty-three East Yorkers to describe such social networks and to show how they function in the contemporary Canadian division of labour. We show that while most" ...
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