Class, Inequality & Oppression

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! Academic Well-Being of Racialized Students Fernwood Publishing	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
Co-operatives in a Post-Growth Era Creating Co-operative Economics Fernwood Publishing	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 Fernwood Publishing	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 Fashion Remaking the Way We Make, Market, and Buy Our Clothes New Society Publishers	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-operation We Owe It to Our Grandchildren Fernwood Publishing	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 Financialization On Karl Polanyi and Other Essays Fernwood Publishing	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 Wealth How 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 …		136		View
Our Lives: Canada after 1945 Second Edition James Lorimer and Company	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 Canada Corporate Cohesion and Democracy Fernwood Publishing	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
The Age of Increasing Inequality The Astonishing Rise of Canada's 1% James Lorimer and Company	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
NEW! The Future of Capitalism Katrina Vanden Heuvel and Yanis Varoufakis vs. Arthur Brooks and David Brooks House of Anansi Press	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; Katrina Vanden Heuvel; Yanis Varoufakis	142	2020	View
The Great Class War 1914-1918 James Lorimer and Company	Historian Jacques Pauwels applies a critical, revisionist lens to the First World War, offering readers a fresh interpretation that challenges mainstream thinking. As Pauwels sees it, war offered …	Jacques R. Pauwels		2016	View
The Power Manual How to Master Complex Power Dynamics New Society Publishers	Liberate yourself by understanding and mastering power dynamics All social relations are laden with power. Getting out from under dominant power relations and mastering power dynamics is perhaps …	Cyndi Suarez	195	2018	View
NEW! Twilight Capitalism Karl Marx and the Decay of the Profit System Fernwood Publishing	Twenty-first-century capitalism has little more to offer than a menu of despair: pandemics, deepening inequality, worsening depression, runaway climate change, intensifying authoritarianism and …	Jonah Butovsky; Josh J. Watterton; Murray E.G. Smith	295	2021	View
From A World of Ominous Uncertainty From: From Corporate Globalization to Global Co-operation Preview Fernwood Publishing	-	J. Tom Webb	29	2016	$3.77 Add
From Brave New World From: Our Lives: Canada after 1945 Preview James Lorimer and Company	1945-1963. Looks at this period in terms of economic expansion and the emergence of a weak welfare states, notes the conflicting pressures in government policy making between public demand for …		41	2012	$4.10 Add