Labour & Labour Unions

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Bankrupticies & Bailouts Fernwood Publishing	Recession? Depression? Market adjustment? Billion-dollar bailouts? Just what is happening to the economy? Like the rest of the industrialized world, Canada is in the midst of an economic crisis …	Julie Guard; Wayne Antony	168	2009	View
Bent out of Shape Shame, Solidarity, and Women's Bodies at Work Between The Lines	Award-winning ergonomist Karen Messing is talking with women—women who wire circuit boards, sew clothes, clean toilets, drive forklifts, care for children, serve food, run labs. What she …	Karen Messing	276	2021	View
Boom, Bust and Crisis Labour, Corporate Power and Politics in Canada Fernwood Publishing	Informed by both critical animal studies and critical terrorism studies, John Sorenson analyzes ecoterrorism as a social construction. He examines how corporations that profit from animal …	John Peters	199	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
Frontline Farmers Fernwood Publishing	Who grows the food we eat? How important is it that family farms are viable in Canada today and in the future? How do viable family farms help determine the safety, diversity and sustainability …	Annette Aurélie Desmarais	273	2019	View
If You’re In My Way, I’m Walking The Assault on Working People Since 1970 Fernwood Publishing	“If you’re in my way I’m walking.” This arrogant statement by former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien on the occasion of his physical altercation with a protester in …	Thom Workman	160	2005	View
Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada 2nd ed. Fernwood Publishing	In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the need to re-establish the labour movement’s political capacity to exert collective power in ways that foster greater opportunity and equality for …	Larry Savage; Stephanie Ross	240	2021	View
NEW! The Fire and the Ashes Rekindling Democratic Socialism Between The Lines	In The Fire and the Ashes, long-time union economist and policy analyst Andrew Jackson looks back on a fascinating career in the labour movement, the NDP, and left politics, combining keen …	Andrew Jackson	180	2021	View
NEW! Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism Class, Class Consciousness and Activism in the “Knowledge Economy” Fernwood Publishing	Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism is a pathbreaking study of the changing class makeup of the Canadian, other G7 and Nordic labour forces since the 1980s, documenting especially the rise of …	D.W. Livingstone	369	2023	View
From NEW! A Life on the Left From: The Fire and the Ashes View Between The Lines	In the opening chapter, Jackson describes his book as "part personal memoir, part historical analysis, and part political manifesto." He also discusses how the labour movement has been …	Andrew Jackson	12	2021	$1.20 Add
From Foreword From: Fixing Fashion View New Society Publishers	The foreword begins with a short history of the textile industry in the UK before looking to the ways the textile industry is still exploiting people, especially children around the world, …	Carry Somers	3	2015	$0.30 Add
From Introduction From: Boom, Bust and Crisis View Fernwood Publishing		John Peters	7	2012	$1.05 Add
From NEW! Introduction From: Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism View Fernwood Publishing	In the introduction to this book, D.W. Livingstone explains what the "tipping point for capitalism" is, and how we have arrived to it. Livingstone breaks down the basic elements of …	D.W. Livingstone	18	2023	$1.80 Add
From Introduction From: Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada View Fernwood Publishing	From growing levels of income and wealth inequality in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic to capital’s consistent ability to tame governments willing to reject neoliberal imperatives; from …	Larry Savage; Stephanie Ross	13	2021	$1.30 Add
From Preface From: Bent out of Shape View Between The Lines		Karen Messing	11	2021	$1.10 Add
From The Economic Crisis Class Warfare from Reagan to Obama From: Bankrupticies & Bailouts View Fernwood Publishing		Robert Chernomas	14	2009	$1.40 Add