Labour
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From ![]() A Blue-Collar Legacy – for Better and for WorseFrom: Shift Change |
This chapter examines the dual nature of Hamilton, and poses key questions about the city. Can history be the basis for a roadmap forward? Are there unique aspects of Hamilton’s past that … | Stephen Dale | 49 | 2021 | $4.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! A friend to labour?The Trudeau record on labour rights and labour relations From: The Trudeau Record |
This chapter examines the Trudeau government’s record on labour rights and labour relations. | Stephanie Ross | 15 | 2024 | $1.50 Add |
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From ![]() A New Agenda for Labour |
Assesses the emerging agenda for labour in the hostile climate of the 1990s | Craig Heron | 11 | 2012 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() Boom, Bust, and a Double-Sided Bohemian RenaissanceFrom: Shift Change |
This chapter surveys some of the attempts to develop and revitalize Hamilton’s downtown core. Although the initial efforts were unsuccessful, a few optimists valiantly plotted … | Stephen Dale | 48 | 2021 | $4.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! From status to contract: Toward new legal forms of worker subjugationFrom: Law at Work |
This chapter explores the evolution of labour legislation, highlighting the role these laws played in limiting workers’ rights and reinforcing class hierarchies. It also analyzes collective … | Harry Glasbeek | 18 | 2024 | $1.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Executives: In a class of their own?From: Law at Work |
This chapter explores the central role of executives and managers in corporate operations, arguing that their wealth and power have grown as they exercise influence beyond their individual … | Harry Glasbeek | 26 | 2024 | $2.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! A legal right to maim and kill workersFrom: Law at Work |
This chapter examines how the structures and ideology supported by law to maintain and perpetuate capitalism ensure the dominance of one class over another. It also discusses how, when it comes … | Harry Glasbeek | 33 | 2024 | $3.30 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The dignity of work versus the degradation of work under capitalismFrom: Law at Work |
This chapter examines how the basic structure of capitalism makes work unrewarding, and how legal systems legitimize and reinforce these conditions. It argues that the law not only sustains … | Harry Glasbeek | 29 | 2024 | $2.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Selected NotesFrom: Law at Work |
This page lists selected notes used throghout the book. | Harry Glasbeek | 1 | 2024 | $0.10 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Capital-labour struggles better described as warsFrom: Law at Work |
This chapter examines how labour unions and legal reforms from the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth centuries challenged employer dominance, and how the Great Depression prompted worker-focused … | Harry Glasbeek | 16 | 2024 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! World War II: Promises made, fulfilled, and then dilutedFrom: Law at Work |
This chapter looks at how labour policies changed during and after World War II, where many of the advances made by the working class were challenged in the 1930s. It also covers the many worker … | Harry Glasbeek | 28 | 2024 | $2.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The common law’s anti-collectivism and the impoverished right to strikeFrom: Law at Work |
This chapter examines how competitive capitalism undermined worker solidarity by pressuring individuals to compete for jobs and accept employer conditions, which widened the divide between … | Harry Glasbeek | 39 | 2024 | $3.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! How judges are programmed to define and interpret contracts of employmentFrom: Law at Work |
This chapter explains how the legal system and the rules and decisions which show the law is comfortable with differential treatment, prioritizes property rights and employer interests often at … | Harry Glasbeek | 14 | 2024 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! How employers avoid the employment contract’s strictures and profit from its principles and ideologyFrom: Law at Work |
The story shared in this chapter highlights the measures capitalists will take to escape legal regulations that try to restrict their profit-maximization drive. It also describes how capitalists … | Harry Glasbeek | 25 | 2024 | $2.50 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Workers’ need to expand the scope of contracts of employmentFrom: Law at Work |
This chapter discusses the ways in which capitalists seek for ways to maximize profits, including finding ways to pass the costs of making profits on to others and pressuring governments to … | Harry Glasbeek | 27 | 2024 | $2.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Helping employers out: A private sphere of criminal justiceFrom: Law at Work |
This chapter discusses how the contract of employment is a contract of submission. It highlights the ways the law also ensures that it is a contract of subordination, giving ownership of the … | Harry Glasbeek | 32 | 2024 | $3.20 Add |










