Class, Inequality & Oppression
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() Academic Well-Being of Racialized Students |
Canadian universities have an ongoing history of colonialism and racism in this white-settler society. Racialized students (Indigenous, Black and students of colour), who would once have been … | Benita Bunjun | 250 | 2021 | View |
![]() NEW! Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada’s ChallengeWhat It Will Take to Deal with American Decline, Inequality and the Climate Crisis |
Neoliberalism arrived in Ottawa with the Mulroney government in 1984, and has continued as widely accepted common sense about government until today. Neoliberalism’s basic tenets – … | 184 | 2024 | View | |
![]() NEW! Capitalism and DispossessionCorporate Canada at Home and Abroad |
This edited collection brings together a broad range of case studies to highlight the role of Canadian corporations in producing, deepening and exacerbating conditions of dispossession both at … | David P. Thomas; Veldon Coburn | 289 | 2022 | View |
![]() NEW! Change for GoodAn Action-Oriented Approach for Businesses to Benefit from Solving the World’s Most Urgent Social Problems |
An action-oriented approach for businesses to solve the world’s most urgent social problems — and benefit from doing so. More than a year into a global pandemic, profit and … | Paul Klein | 274 | 2022 | View |
![]() Co-operatives in a Post-Growth EraCreating Co-operative Economics |
Featuring a remarkable roster of internationally renowned critical thinkers, this book presents a feasible alternative for a more environmentally sustainable and equitable economic system. The … | Sonja Novkovic; Tom Webb | 320 | 2014 | View |
![]() Experiencing Difference |
Difference is a fundamental aspect of our human existence. This anthology emerges from the editor’s attempts to navigate the complex, variable and unpredictable materiality of difference. … | Carl E. James | 333 | 2012 | View |
![]() Fixing FashionRemaking the Way We Make, Market, and Buy Our Clothes |
With sales of more than US $500 billion a year, the fashion industry is one of the most important sectors of the global economy, employing millions of men, women, and often children in the … | Michael Lavergne | 242 | 2015 | View |
![]() From Corporate Globalization to Global Co-operationWe Owe It to Our Grandchildren |
This book is about the need for an alternative to capitalism. But what does that alternative look like? And given the ever-increasing wealth and power of the 1 percent and the fact that … | J. Tom Webb | 196 | 2016 | View |
![]() From the Great Transformation to the Great FinancializationOn Karl Polanyi and Other Essays |
Four years into the unfolding of the most serious economic crisis since the 1930s, Karl Polanyi’s prediction of the fateful consequences of unleashing the destructive power of unregulated … | Kari Polanyi Levitt | 294 | 2013 | View |
![]() Health and WealthHow Social and Economic Factors Affect Our Well-Being |
This book looks at the well-known link between social equality and the health and well-being of a country’s population, with a Canadian perspective and using Canadian data. As of 1999, when … | Monica Townson | 136 | 1999 | View |
![]() Our Lives: Canada after 1945Second Edition |
This book offers a short, comprehensive history of post-war Canada. All the major events and developments in Canadian history are discussed: the evolution of the welfare state; the growth of … | Alvin Finkel | 488 | 2012 | View |
![]() Ruling CanadaCorporate Cohesion and Democracy |
Ruling Canada critically examines Canada’s “economic elite”–a collection of the country’s richest and most powerful individuals, many of whom preside over … | Jamie Brownlee | 168 | 2005 | View |
![]() Take Back the FightOrganizing Feminism for the Digital Age |
Two decades of neoliberalism have destroyed a structured, pan-regional feminist movement in Canada. As a result, new generations of feminists have come to age without ever seeing the force that … | Nora Loreto | 256 | 2020 | View |
![]() The Age of Increasing InequalityThe Astonishing Rise of Canada's 1% |
For 35 years, Canada has become vastly wealthier, but most people have not. This book documents the dramatic and rapid growth in inequality. It identifies the causes. It proposes meaningful steps … | Lars Osberg | 248 | 2018 | View |
![]() The Future of CapitalismKatrina Vanden Heuvel and Yanis Varoufakis vs. Arthur Brooks and David Brooks |
The twenty-fifth semi-annual Munk Debate, held on December 4, 2019, pits editorial director and publisher of the Nation Katrina vanden Heuvel and former finance minister of Greece Yanis … | Arthur Brooks; David Brooks; Katrina Vanden Heuvel; Yanis Varoufakis | 142 | 2020 | View |
![]() The Great Class War 1914-1918 |
Far from an accident of history, the First World War was a long sought-after event welcomed by European elites as a check against democratization and socialist reforms — but the war had … | Jacques R. Pauwels | 2016 | View |