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A 7 page research paper that examines the relationship between labor and rapid technological change within Canadian industry. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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industrialized countries of the West. In Canada, according to Lowe (1998), the shape of tomorrows work place, in regards to technological change, is available today. In this future perspective, the
role of Canadian labor union will continue to be an active one "by adapting their organizing and collective bargaining strategies" to the frequently contradictory demands of the economy, labor market,
and the requirements of human resource management (Lowe, 1998). The national debates concerning the changing nature of work due technological change have tended to pivot around threats to the survival
of unions, as well as the demands of having to formulate new organizing and collective bargaining strategies that address the needs of the growing number of service sector workers in
Canada (Lowe, 1998). Over the last several decades, the Canadian labor movement has adjusted to the new reality of an increasingly "white-collar, service-based, feminized workforce" (Lowe, 1998). As this suggests,
Canadian unions have become adept at "reinventing" themselves and will undoubtedly continue to do so to meet new demands, such as the intense pressures for change that can be found
in todays workplaces. While Lowe (1998) believes that these forces are not as cataclysmic as futurists would have us believe, these pressures for change do present major dilemmas for the
future of Canadian unions. The economic environment present during the 1980s and 90s served to promote human dislocation and organizational turmoil. . Along with other forces, relentless technological change
was one of the factors redefining the work environment (Lowe, 1998). This change spawned a huge volume of literature on the future of work that presented workers with a "barrage
of speculations and contradictory images of the future" (Lowe, 1998). Subsequently, workers felt intensely insecure concerning their economic futures and unemployment became a top national concern (Lowe, 1998). In summarizing
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