Clothing, aging and me – Routes to research

This essay describes the influences, academic and personal, that led the author to her current research interest in clothing and older women.     

Mixed Repertoire of an Indian Labor Movement, 1990–2006*

This article analyzes the protest repertoire of an Indian labor movement between 1990 and 2006. Chhattisgarh Liberation Front led a seventeen year struggle against the industrialists and state in central India for the recognition of contract workers' entitlements. During this long contentious history, the movement deployed disruptive repertoire, ranging from relatively legitimate “wild‐cat strikes” (illegal stoppage of work) to extreme physical attacks, against the industrialists, and non‐disruptive repertoire, ranging from disciplined participation in court‐cases to mass martyr day celebrations, against the state. The mixed repertoire points at the two distinct capacities in which the movement was acting, as a radical trade union against the industrialists and a social movement in relation to the state. The finding suggests that the CMM participants perceived the state as holding genuine power, and their relation to it as citizens, and perceived the industrialists, despite their being indigenous capitalists, as adversaries.     

A multidimensional employment quality index for Brazil, 2002–11

In countries where informal, insecure jobs are widespread, traditional labour market indicators – such as the unemployment rate, labour force participation rate and wages – are not necessarily the most meaningful. The authors use a multidimensional employment quality index to analyse the Brazilian labour market over the period 2002–11, across three dimensions: earnings, formality (measured by the existence of an employment contract and social security contributions) and job tenure. The results show a significant increase in employment quality overall, especially in the years 2009–11, but with considerable differences between wage employees and self‐employed workers, and between industries.     

Alternative estimates of the volume of emigration from Canada, 1961–71*

L'apport de l'immigration à l'accroissement de la population au Canada a souvent fait l'objet d'une attention toute particulière. Cependant, on est beaucoup moins bien renseigné sur l'impact qu'a pu avoir l'émigration, puisqu'il n'existe aucune donnée sur le nombre réel de personnes quittant le Canada. Cet exposé présente d'abord trois évaluations du nombre d'émigrants du Canada au cours de la période intercensitaire 1961–71, obtenues à partir de trois méthodes différentes, et on tente de déterminer quelle évaluation est la plus fiable. On montre que le processus d'élaboration des politiques canadiennes d'immigration se doit de tenir compte de l'émigration. The contribution of immigration to Canada's population growth has received considerable analytical attention. However, much less is known about the impact which emigration has had on the nation's population growth, particularly since actual data are not available on the number of persons emigrating from Canada. This paper presents three different emigration estimates for Canada for the 1961–71 intercensal period derived from different estimation procedures, endeavours to determine which estimate is the most reliable one, and demonstrates the importance of considering emigration in the continuing reformulation of Canada's immigration policies.