Labour & Labour Unions

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! A Democratic Socialist Future From: The Fire and the Ashes View Between The Lines	In his concluding chapter, the author surveys the political present, and notes that narratives about elections being won by appealing to the "mushy centre" are disproven by the success …	Andrew Jackson	16	2021	$1.60 Add
From A feminist intervention that hurt women From: Bent out of Shape View Between The Lines		Karen Messing	17	2021	$1.70 Add
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: A New Kind of Union View James Lorimer and Company	Peter Kennedy, Unifor’s former secretary treasurer, briefly explains why he is proud to have played a part in the creation of Unifor.	Peter Kennedy	4	2019	$0.40 Add
From NEW! A World to Win From: The Fire and the Ashes View Between The Lines	This chapter examines the activities of the Canadian Labour Congress in a global context, where it worked with organizations from other countries to codify basic labour rights.	Andrew Jackson	5	2021	$0.50 Add
From NEW! Advanced Capitalist Mode of Production: Drivers of Class Relations in “Knowledge Economies” From: Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter briefly sketches the context for the class analysis in the remainder of the book. It traces the transition from the feudal mode of production to capitalism, the development of the …	D.W. Livingstone	24	2023	$2.40 Add
From NEW! Advanced Capitalist Mode of Thought: Bourgeois Ideology From: Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism View Fernwood Publishing	In this chapter, Livingstone examines modes of thought that serve to shape peoples’ views of social reality, compare feudal and capitalist modes of thought and dominant ideas, and point to …	D.W. Livingstone	30	2023	$3.00 Add
From Afterword Looking Back on A Moment of Truth: An International Perspective From: A New Kind of Union View James Lorimer and Company	Economist and union activist Jim Stanford looks back on Canada’s union movement since 2011 and how Canadian labour fares compared to other countries with the use of key graphs and statistics.	Jim Stanford	22	2019	$2.20 Add
From Aid for Trade From: Fixing Fashion View New Society Publishers	The chapter Aid for Trade takes a look at the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement over 20 years, considering who has benefitted. It also analyzes statistics and outcomes by country, …	Michael Lavergne	13	2015	$1.30 Add
From Alphabet Soup From: Fixing Fashion View New Society Publishers	In Alphabet Soup, the author begins to examine his process of engaging with the darkers aspects of the global fashion industry, such as child labor, global trade agreements and their impacts, …	Michael Lavergne	36	2015	$3.60 Add
From NEW! American Workers and the Left after Trump Polarized Options From: The Socialist Register 2022 View Fernwood Publishing	Sam Gindin examines the state of the American Left after the Trump Administration. For Gindin, the US left faces ‘polarized options’; the challenge it faces is ‘to conceive of …	Sam Gindin	19	2021	$1.90 Add
From NEW! An Uneasy Marriage From: The Fire and the Ashes View Between The Lines	This chapter examines the marriage of labour and social democracy in Canada, which dates to the founding of the New Democratic Party in 1961. He suggests that the NDP has moderated its …	Andrew Jackson	13	2021	$1.30 Add
From Anybody But Conservative Canadian Unions and Strategic Voting From: Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada View Fernwood Publishing	In recent elections, many were driven by a desire to block Conservatives from gaining power rather than faith that Liberals would champion union causes. However, because tactical shifts have an …	Larry Savage	23	2021	$2.30 Add
From NEW! Appendices From: Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism View Fernwood Publishing	Livingstone reviews some of the surveys discussed in previous chapters.	D.W. Livingstone	6	2023	$0.60 Add
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