Labour & Labour Unions
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From  Looking the dragon in the faceFrom: Bent out of Shape |
- | Karen Messing | 31 | 2021 | $3.10 Add |
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From  Northwestern Ontario Since the 1980sFrom: North of Superior |
Looks at the change in perception in the late 1980s to a worry of jobs leaving the region. Analyzes the decline of industrialism, post-industrial changes and the rise of Aboriginal Influence. | Chris Southcott; Michel S. Beaulieu | 8 | 2010 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Redefining FashionFrom: Fixing Fashion |
The final chapter presents a wide array of view points on how to change the fashion industry for the better, drawing on quotes and interviews with people involved, such as educators, financial … | Michael Lavergne | 50 | 2015 | $5.00 Add |
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From  Saving the Prison Farms: Cows, Community and Civil DisobedienceFrom: Frontline Farmers |
The seventh chapter looks at the formation of the coalition Save Our Prison Farms in Ontario to prevent closure of prison farms, with interviews with Dianne Dowling, Aric McBray, Andrew McCann, … | Asha Nelson | 19 | 2019 | $1.90 Add |
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From  NEW! The Crisis of US Labour, Past and Present |
Samir Sonti explores the long decline of organized labour since its heyday in the mid-twentieth century. Sonti explores the challenge of rebuilding the American union movement in the post-Trump … | Samir Sonti | 24 | 2021 | $2.40 Add |
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From  Which Side Are You On?Indigenous Peoples and Canada's Labour Movement |
Unions will need to extend their activities beyond the traditional concerns of organized labour to substantively engage with Indigenous struggles. This requires a multipronged approach, … | Suzanne E. Mills; Tyler McCreary | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
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From  AfterwordLooking Back on A Moment of Truth: An International Perspective From: A New Kind of Union |
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 |
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From NEW! American Workers and the Left after TrumpPolarized Options |
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 |
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From  NEW! Corporatism in CanadaFrom: The Fire and the Ashes |
In this chapter, the author compares the corporatist labour policies of Europe to the situation in Canada. He suggests that the European model was driven by the strength of the labour movement … | Andrew Jackson | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From Feminist ergonomic intervention with a feminist employerFrom: Bent out of Shape |
- | Karen Messing | 18 | 2021 | $1.80 Add |
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From  Immigrant Men’s and Women’s Occupational HealthQuestioning the Myths From: Sick and Tired |
The Myth of the Uneducated Immigrants The Myth of the Unhealthy Immigrants The Myth of the Unsafe Immigrants From Careless Workers to Vulnerable Workers Conclusions | Stephanie Premji | 12 | 2018 | $1.20 Add |
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From Owning the Island: The Question of Land in Prince Edward IslandFrom: Frontline Farmers |
The eighth chapter considers the importance to farmers of owning land in Prince Edward Island, with interviews with Marie Burge, Doug Campbell, Gordon Carter, Alfred Fyfe, Wilfred Lacey, Edith … | Naomi Beingessner | 20 | 2019 | $2.00 Add |
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From  Precarious Employment and Occupational Health and Safety in OntarioFrom: Boom, Bust and Crisis |
- | John Peters | 15 | 2012 | $2.25 Add |
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From The Politics of Migrant Worker Organizing in Canada |
Migrant labour in Canada is structurally essential to the economy but ultimately treated as a disposable resource. In response, migrants have collectively organized to challenge these … | Dani Magsumbol; Karl Gardner | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
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From  NEW! Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism: This Time Is Different |
Livingstone discusses the current unprecedented chance to create a better world and breaks down the ingredients of most effective major social change processes: critique and protest; an … | D.W. Livingstone | 45 | 2023 | $4.50 Add |
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From NEW! Appendices |
Livingstone reviews some of the surveys discussed in previous chapters. | D.W. Livingstone | 6 | 2023 | $0.60 Add |
