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Well-Being for First Nations

From: An Economy of Well-Being

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* Measuring What Matters to Community Well-Being * Why a Community Asset Assessment? * Natural Capital Assessment * The Well-Being Community Planning Process * Benefits of a Well-Being-Based … 15 $1.50 Add
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What is Wrong with Social Media?

An Anti-Capitalist Critique

From: The Socialist Register 2022

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Marcus Gilroy-Ware provides an authoritative and skeptical assessment of ‘what is wrong with social media’ and places the social pathologies they amplify within the capitalist … 20 $2.00 Add
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Afterword

From: Still Hopeful

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In the Afterword Barlow reflects on the process of making this book. The chapter discusses topics including reflections on the exploitation of natural resources for profit, violence and … 3 $0.30 Add
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Barrick Gold, the University of Toronto, and the Corporate Capture of the Canadian Government

Part Two: Dispossession Abroad

From: Capitalism and Dispossession

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In Chapter 7, author Sakura Saunders presents a historical account of how Canadian civil actors have attempted to compel the Canadian government to hold Canadian mining companies to account for … 28 $2.80 Add
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Globalization, Capital Accumulation, and Violence Against Women: An International and Historical Perspective

From: Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

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The readings in Part Two of this title explore the ways in witch the attitudes that spawned the witch-hunt have survived into the modern world. This chapter consists of a discussion of the forms … 14 $1.40 Add
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Chapter 6: The Billionaire

From: The Killer's Henchman

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The author focuses on Bill Gates, examining how Gates offers a concrete example of how members of the capitalist class use their wealth to shape political agendas to expand their own interests at … 29 $2.90 Add
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Class Consciousness in Advanced Capitalism: General Forms and Recent Trends

From: Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism

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This chapter offers profiles of general patterns and trends in all these levels and forms of class consciousness since the early 1980s. The chapter concludes by tracking association between the … 47 $4.70 Add
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Development as Freedom: The Politics of Socialist Humanism

From: Human Development

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Japan

From: Humanizing the Economy

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Product Labeling and Advocacy Workers’ Collective Movement Health and Happiness Elder Care 21 $2.10 Add
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Keeping on Track: Performance Indicators for a Better Society

From: Curing Affluenza

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Chapter 6 explores the indicators of a better society, discussing topics including gross domestic product (GDP), economic growth, child literacy and health, and protections. It includes an … 25 $2.50 Add
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Leading Concepts in the Work of Karl Polanyi and Their Contemporary Relevance

From: From the Great Transformation to the Great Financialization

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Loving the World

From: Intrinsic Hope

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When I think about what loving the world means to me, I feel a deep aspiration for the happiness, flourishing, and wellbeing of other people, other species, and the earth. This could be called … 20 $2.00 Add
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Marxist versus Radical Heterodox Economics:

In Defence of the Labour Theory of Value

From: Twilight Capitalism

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The purpose of this chapter is to show that: 1) Marx’s production-centred theory offers a much better theoretical basis for understanding the economic malaise of twenty-first-century … ; ; 25 $2.50 Add
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Mutual Aid in the Medieval City

From: Mutual Aid

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In Chapter V, Kropotkin explores the growth of authority in barbarian societies, and they became medieval cities. The chapter examines topics including the evolution of Serfdom, fortified towns, … 21 $2.10 Add
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Organizing for Socialism: The Communist Network of Italy

From: 21st Century Socialism

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Part Three: Section II

Women and Depression: Auto/biographies

From: The Point is To Change the World

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This reading consists of the following essays: Asylum: Diary of the Last Seven Days in a Women’s Psychiatric Ward [c.1973] – M: A Daughter’s Tale [c.1982] ; 10 $1.00 Add