Citation

Shalla V. Can. Rev. Sociol. Anthropol. 2004; 41(3): 345-368.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, University of Toronto Press)

DOI

10.1111/j.1755-618X.2004.tb00782.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Working time has been the subject of debates and struggles throughout the history of industrial capitalism, and the current context of rapid economic and social transformation is having profound repercussions on it. Through a case study of the new working-time realities of flight attendants at Air Canada, this article helps fill the gap in our understanding of the impact of changing temporalities on workers in the ever-expanding service economy. I demonstrate that the globalization/ deregulation-era airline-industry working-time regime has deepened the commodity status of flight attendant labour power.