Labour & Labour Unions
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From  SolidarityFrom: Bent out of Shape |
Karen Messing | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add | |
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From  Steel City MeltdownFrom: Boom, Bust and Crisis |
John Peters | 18 | 2012 | $2.70 Add | |
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From  Stopping Monsanto: Coalition Building Against rBGH and GM WheatFrom: Frontline Farmers |
The third chapter examines the NFU’s work in building a coalition against Monsanto and genetically modified crops and bovine growth hormone. Interviews are with Peter Dowling, Lucy … | Carla Fehr | 26 | 2019 | $2.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Studying Classes in Advanced Capitalism |
This chapter starts with different standpoints for studying classes in advanced capitalism and establishes my current standpoint as an intellectual inside-outsider aligned with subordinate class … | D.W. Livingstone | 23 | 2023 | $2.30 Add |
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From  NEW! The Allende of the NorthFrom: The Fire and the Ashes |
This chapter examines the Dave Barrett NDP government of British Columbia, which was in power from 1972-1975. Jackson later worked with the BC NDP caucus as they tried to resist the resurgent … | Andrew Jackson | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From The Biggest Roll-Back of Worker Rights in Canadian HistoryFrom: Boom, Bust and Crisis |
John Peters | 21 | 2012 | $3.15 Add | |
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From  NEW! The Bitter Fruits of Crisis Capitalism: The Gig Economy and Homelessness, 2000–25 |
In this chapter, Palmer discusses how the gig economy emerged, impact on workers’ incomes, the emergence of homelessness across Canada in the period, and the rising cost of housing— … | Bryan D. Palmer | 13 | 2026 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! The Changing Class Structure of Production Relations in the “Knowledge Economy” |
Livingstone offers a brief critical assessment of recent approaches to class analysis and labour process analysis in advanced capitalism. An empirical assessment of continuity and change in this … | D.W. Livingstone | 51 | 2023 | $5.10 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 NEW! The Divided House of LabourFrom: The Fire and the Ashes |
In this chapter, Jackson examines the Canadian Labour Congress, which appointed him senior economist on May Day 1989. He suggests that the CLC is a fragile body compared with central labour … | Andrew Jackson | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
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From  The Economic CrisisClass Warfare from Reagan to Obama From: Bankrupticies & Bailouts |
Robert Chernomas | 14 | 2009 | $1.40 Add | |
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From NEW! The Fight Against InequalityFrom: The Fire and the Ashes |
In this chapter, Jackson writes about the Great Recession of 2008-2009, and suggests that the functioning of democracies relies on economic and social equality. The best way to achieve this … | Andrew Jackson | 5 | 2021 | $0.50 Add |
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NEW! The Fire and the AshesRekindling Democratic Socialism |
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 |
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From NEW! The Great Free Trade DebateFrom: The Fire and the Ashes |
This chapter concerns the authors’ work on the free trade debates in 1988, which culminated in the edited collection The Free Trade Deal. | Andrew Jackson | 4 | 2021 | $0.40 Add |
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From  The Neoliberal Rollback in Historical Perspective |
Thom Workman | 28 | 2005 | $4.48 Add | |
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From The ProtagonistsFrom: Frontline Farmers |
This chapter is meant to introduce the farmer members of the National Farmers Union who share their key struggles, gathered together by topic. | Annette Aurélie Desmarais | 18 | 2019 | $1.80 Add |
