Class, Inequality & Oppression

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
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
From From the Quiet Revolution to the First Sovereignty Referendum From: Our Lives: Canada after 1945 View James Lorimer and Company	1963-1980. Looks at the dramatic social change in francophone Quebec and the Quiet Revolution as a society-wide movement that imbraced Trade Unions, the women’s movement, and even the …	Alvin Finkel	33	2012	$3.30 Add
From NEW! From Welfare State to Partner State From: Civilizing the State View New Society Publishers	From Welfare State to Partner State delves into imagining a new form of civil society and governance that involves democratization and empowerment, which has been called the Partner State.	John Restakis	17	2021	$1.70 Add
From Gentlemen and Plebeians on the War Path From: The Great Class War 1914-1918 View James Lorimer and Company	1914 The armies of all belligerent countries have a very pronounced “class character.” The simple soldiers are almost exclusively plebeians, mostly peasants. The officers belong to …	Jacques R. Pauwels	11	2016	$1.10 Add
From NEW! Grassy Narrows and Corporate Dispossession of Indigenous Waterways Part One: Dispossession at Home From: Capitalism and Dispossession View Fernwood Publishing	In Chapter 6, author Veldon Coburn examines the destruction of the English-Wabigoon River system in Northern Ontario for colonial capital. The chapter examines the history of colonial extraction …	Veldon Coburn	26	2022	$2.60 Add
From Growing Up Different On Being More than One/Less than One Exploring Twin-ness From: Experiencing Difference View Fernwood Publishing		Kathryn Alexander	19	2012	$2.09 Add
From Hayek From Vienna to Chicago Architect of the Neoliberal Creed From: From the Great Transformation to the Great Financialization View Fernwood Publishing		Kari Polanyi Levitt	16	2013	$1.60 Add
Health and Wealth How Social and Economic Factors Affect Our Well-Being James Lorimer and Company	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
Hope View Fernwood Publishing		Anne Bishop	6	2005	$0.72 Add
From Human Moles in the "Lovely Land of War" From: The Great Class War 1914-1918 View James Lorimer and Company	Except in its opening and closing stages, the Great War is a “stationary war,” to be associated forever with concepts such as trenches, no man’s land, and barbed wire — …	Jacques R. Pauwels	33	2016	$3.30 Add
From Imagining Socialism From: Twilight Capitalism View Fernwood Publishing	In the concluding chapter, the authors review several notable ways of conceiving an alternative to capitalism, drawing important lessons – both positive and negative – from the …	Jonah Butovsky; Josh J. Watterton; Murray E.G. Smith	21	2021	$2.10 Add
From Imperialist Friends and Foes on the Road to a Great War From: The Great Class War 1914-1918 View James Lorimer and Company	The imperialist rivalries heat up as a result of the rapidly increasing importance of new raw materials such as rubber and oil. War becomes more and more likely and ultimately inevitable. The …	Jacques R. Pauwels	21	2016	$2.10 Add
From Inequalities in Health From: Health and Wealth View James Lorimer and Company	An overview of the health of the Canadian population in the late 1990s, and the impact on health of income, education, poverty, race, housing conditions, and unemployment. Aboriginal health …	Monica Townson	56	1999	$5.60 Add
From Inequality at the Top From: The Age of Increasing Inequality View James Lorimer and Company	The income share of Canada’s top earners has risen sharply since the 1980s, as balanced growth has been replaced by accelerated income growth for the top 1%, and relative income stagnancy …	Lars Osberg	30	2018	$3.00 Add
From NEW! Inequality at the top From: The Scandalous Rise of Inequality in Canada View James Lorimer and Company	In this chapter, the author examines the implications of strong income growth at the very top of the income distribution scale in Canada.	Lars Osberg	34	2024	$3.40 Add
From Inequality from the Bottom Up From: The Age of Increasing Inequality View James Lorimer and Company	As average incomes increase in a society, many cheap goods become unavailable and the cost of living for poor people rises. Although different poverty line methodologies produce somewhat …	Lars Osberg	23	2018	$2.30 Add