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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From ![]() NEW! A Democratic Socialist FutureFrom: The Fire and the Ashes |
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 womenFrom: Bent out of Shape |
Karen Messing | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add | |
From ![]() NEW! A Life on the LeftFrom: The Fire and the Ashes |
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 ![]() NEW! A World to WinFrom: The Fire and the Ashes |
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! An Uneasy MarriageFrom: The Fire and the Ashes |
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 ConservativeCanadian Unions and Strategic Voting |
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 |
![]() Bankrupticies & Bailouts |
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 ShapeShame, Solidarity, and Women's Bodies at Work |
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 |
From ![]() Building Relationships: Indigenous-Settler Solidarity and the NFUFrom: Frontline Farmers |
The last chapter considers the National Farmers Union’s work in building relationships of solidarity with Indigenous peoples of Canada. Interviews are with Maureen Bostock, Julie Enman, … | Lauren Kepkiewicz | 20 | 2019 | $2.00 Add |
From ![]() Business Unionism and Social Unionism in Theory and Practice |
Recognizing the coexistence of historicized ideal types of both “business unionism” and “social unionism” in the labour movement in general, and specifically within unions … | Stephanie Ross | 18 | 2021 | $1.80 Add |
From ![]() Canada and the CrisisFrom: Bankrupticies & Bailouts |
Fletcher Baragar | 30 | 2009 | $3.00 Add | |
From ![]() A Union for EveryoneFrom: A New Kind of Union |
Describes the continued efforts of the CEP and the CAW to negotiate the New Union Project from 2012-2013. Analyzes debates over how the new union can represent Canadians from a wide variety of … | Fred Wilson | 38 | 2019 | $3.80 Add |
From ![]() Canadian Labour and COVID-19 |
Only by tearing down the false division between political and economic spheres and questioning the legitimacy of a capitalist economic system that continues to prioritize profits over people … | Larry Savage; Stephanie Ross | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
From ![]() Canadian Labour and the EnvironmentAddressing the Value-Action Gap |
Many of the most valuable things that labour can contribute to the quest for environmental sustainability go beyond its own environmental activities per se, spilling over into the broader … | Dennis Soron | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
From ![]() NEW! Class Power and Legal CoercionRefinery Workers Confront the Limits of the “Right to Strike” From: Unjust Transition |
Chapter Four describes how the 2019-2020 lockout was marked by the employer’s use of scab labor and court injunctions to restrict workers’ ability to picket, as well as the impact on … | 20 | 2024 | $2.00 Add | |
From ![]() Class Struggle Goes to CourtWorkers' Rights and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms |
Only when workers and their unions use their collective strength through direct economic and political action — a traditional source of worker power — can we expect truly … | Alison Braley-Rattai; Charles W. Smith | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |