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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Gift Horse or Trojan Horse? From: Equal as Citizens View Formac Publishing	1990s. A tumulteous decade for Canada the main cause of turbulance being constitutional, the Reform Party, the McMahon thesis and rebuttles against it. Provincial studies of Ontario and Alberta …	Richard Starr	15	2014	$1.50 Add
From Hiring Adolf H. From: Big Business and Hitler View James Lorimer and Company	Revisionist historian Jacques R. Pauwels discusses the role of industrialists and bankers in the political developments leading to Hitler being appointed as "Reich chancellor" in 1933.	Jacques R. Pauwels	6	2017	$0.60 Add
Humanizing the Economy Co-operatives in the Age of Capital	At the close of the twentieth century, corporate capitalism extended its reach over the globe. While its defenders argue that globalization is the only way forward for modern, democratic …		305		View
From Humanizing the Economy Co-operatives in the Age of Capital From: Humanizing the Economy View New Society Publishers	The Future of an Idea Happiness Matters Commons Sense Japan’s Fishing Co-operatives Ozone Globalizing Localism	John Restakis	29	2010	$2.90 Add
From Industry, Democracy and Dictatorship From: Big Business and Hitler View James Lorimer and Company	Revisionist historian Jacques R. Pauwels examines the period of 1920-1928 and how Hitler used the German elite’s interests in Industry to gain their support. He also analyzes how this …	Jacques R. Pauwels	10	2017	$1.00 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Lorimer and Company	The income share of Canada’s top earners has risen sharply since the 1980s, as balanced growth has been replaced by accelerated income growth for the top 1%, and relative income stagnancy …	Lars Osberg	30	2018	$3.00 Add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 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
From Inequality of Wealth From: The Age of Increasing Inequality View James Lorimer and Company	The inequality of wealth in Canada is far greater than the inequality of incomes — Canada’s top 40 families own more than the bottom 40% (6,186,000 households) do. For middle class …	Lars Osberg	23	2018	$2.30 Add
From Introduction From: The Big Stall View James Lorimer and Company	Compares and contrasts the energy policies of Pierre and Justin Trudeau to demonstrate the shift from a government able and willing to intervene in the economy to pursue the national interest to …	Donald Gutstein	3	2018	$0.30 Add
From Introduction From: Equal as Citizens View Formac Publishing	Introduction outlines the process to be undertaken in the book and the reason for writing about eqality of citizenship in relation to Canada	Richard Starr	11	2014	$1.10 Add
From NEW! Introduction From: Mutual Aid View Between The Lines	In the Introduction, David Graeber and Andrej Grubačić examines the history of theories on social evolution, political theology, and the impact of Peter Kropotkin’s Mutal Aid had …	Andrej Grubačić; David Graeber	8	2021	$0.80 Add
From Introduction From: Humanizing the Economy View New Society Publishers	It is a story about how a revolution in human society that began with the rise of democracy in politics continues to unfold as the democratic idea struggles to find its place in the world of …	John Restakis	7	2010	$0.70 Add
From Japan From: Humanizing the Economy View New Society Publishers	Product Labeling and Advocacy Workers’ Collective Movement Health and Happiness Elder Care	John Restakis	21	2010	$2.10 Add
From Krafting a Boycott: NFU Takes on a Corporate Giant From: Frontline Farmers View Fernwood Publishing	The second chapter looks at the development and experiences of interviewed farmers of the 1971 boycott on Kraft products. The interviews are with Dan Kossick and Barbara Campbell.	Carla Fehr	21	2019	$2.10 Add
From NEW! Learning Economics the Hard Way: Recession, Depression and C.D. Howe From: At the Trough View Sutherland House	In this chapter, Carbonneau traces Canada’s economic evolution from the First World War through the post-war decades, centring on the rise of C.D. Howe as a transformative figure in …	Laurent Carbonneau	15	2025	$1.50 Add
From Maritime Rights (and Wrongs) From: Equal as Citizens View Formac Publishing	1920 – 1940 WWI reinvigorated the maritime economy, economic and political turmoil of the decades following WWI, The Martime Rights Movement which dominated the regions politics for the …	Richard Starr	21	2014	$2.10 Add