Class, Inequality & Oppression

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The Financial Meltdown and Other Morbid Symptoms
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The Financial Meltdown and Other Morbid Symptoms

From: Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada's Challenge

This chapter examines the financial crisis of 2007-2008 and movements such as the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street in its aftermath. 15 $1.50 Add
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The Fourth World Is Emerging: A Zombie Mine Resurrection and the Refusal of the Tsilhqot’in

The Fourth World Is Emerging: A Zombie Mine Resurrection and the Refusal of the Tsilhqot’in

From: Capitalism and Dispossession

In Chapter 4, co-authors Dawn Hoogeveen (a non-Indigenous settler) and Russell Myers Ross (a member of the Tsilhqot’in Nation) examine the struggles to preserve Teztan Biny (Fish Lake), located … ; 20 $2.00 Add
The Future of Capitalism

The Future of Capitalism

Katrina 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 … ; ; ; 142 View
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The Gendered Violence of Canadian Extraction

The Gendered Violence of Canadian Extraction

From: Capitalism and Dispossession

In Chapter 2, author Rebecca Hall provides an expansive gendered analysis of the violence related to and actively caused by Canadian resource extraction. The chapter examines topics including … 22 $2.20 Add
The Great Class War 1914-1918

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 … View
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The Great Financialization of 2008

The Great Financialization of 2008

From: From the Great Transformation to the Great Financialization

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The Great Recession: The  Financial Crash of 2007–09
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The Great Recession: The Financial Crash of 2007–09

From: Capitalism, Colonialism, and Crises

In this chapter, Palmer outlines the structural causes of the financial crisis and global recession of 2007-2009 and how it was experienced in Canada. 10 $1.00 Add
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The Home Visit

The Home Visit

From: Experiencing Difference

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The Journey to Change for Good
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The Journey to Change for Good

Introduction

From: Change for Good

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The Moving Picture of Incomes

The Moving Picture of Incomes

From: The Age of Increasing Inequality

Inequality of annual incomes is like a snapshot of inequality, which only captures part of the moving picture of our fluctuating incomes. Lifetime income depends on career progression and whether … 20 $2.00 Add
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The moving picture of incomes
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The moving picture of incomes

From: The Scandalous Rise of Inequality in Canada

In this chapter, the author analyzes the meaning of statistics about disparities in income and what they actually say about economic inequality and well-being in Canada. He points out that the … 22 $2.20 Add
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The Munk Debate on the Future of Capitalism

The Munk Debate on the Future of Capitalism

From: The Future of Capitalism

This reading consists of a transcript of the Munk Debate on Capitalism. The resolution being debated is "The capitalist system is broken. It’s time to try something different… … ; ; ; 57 $6.84 Add
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The New Economy

The New Economy

From: Co-operatives in a Post-Growth Era

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The New Men of Power and Confederation’s Capitalist Triumph

The New Men of Power and Confederation’s Capitalist Triumph

From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada’s Origins 1500-1890

This chapter addresses the weakening of the aristocratic and radical groups in Canada by the end of the 1840s and the triumph of the capitalist class and its ideology throughout the following decades. 11 $1.10 Add
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The Nobility and the Bourgeoisie

The Nobility and the Bourgeoisie

A Counterrevolutionary Symbiosis

From: The Great Class War 1914-1918

After its traumatic experiences of 1848 and 1871 — respectively “the crazy year” and the annus horribilis of the Paris Commune — the bourgeoisie ceases to be revolutionary … 20 $2.00 Add
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The Policy Challenge

The Policy Challenge

From: Health and Wealth

Public policy proposals for Canada at the turn of the 21st century that would improve the overall levels of health of the population, and reduce illness and disease, by focusing on the social and … 36 $3.60 Add