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From Feudalism to Capitalism:
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From Feudalism to Capitalism:

The Role of the Common People in the “Middle Ages”

From: Humans

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 This chapter looks at the arrival of feudalism and then capitalism across the world. It reviews instances of resistance to hierarchical rule and serfdom by peasants in Europe, Indigenous … 37 $3.70 Add
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From Forestry to Film: The Changing Political Economy of British Columbia

From Forestry to Film: The Changing Political Economy of British Columbia

From: British Columbia Politics and Government

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 Historical review tracing the changing nature of the political economy. ; ; 18 $1.80 Add
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From “institutional daycare” to “early learning and child care for all”
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From “institutional daycare” to “early learning and child care for all”

The Trudeau government's changing child care file

From: The Trudeau Record

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 This chapter assesses the Trudeau record on child care and early learning. ; 16 $1.60 Add
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From (Invisible) Coffee Farmer to Undocumented Construction Worker

From (Invisible) Coffee Farmer to Undocumented Construction Worker

The Life and Death of Álvaro Vargas Fonseca

From: The Fair Trade Handbook

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 In this chapter, the author outlines the chain of events that led to the death of a Costa Rican coffee farmer in a Toronto construction site. 10 $1.00 Add
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From Mercantilism to Neoliberalism and the Financial Crisis of 2008

From Mercantilism to Neoliberalism and the Financial Crisis of 2008

From: From the Great Transformation to the Great Financialization

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From Premodern Past to Digital Present

From Premodern Past to Digital Present

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

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 The disappearance of commons across the globe pushes the author to act on her expriences in Scotland, throwing her support behind the Idle No More movement. 9 $0.90 Add
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From the Ashes of Nortel

From the Ashes of Nortel

From: Unicorn in the Woods

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 This chapter recounts the bankrupcy of Nortel, and describes how one former Nortel employee took up a leadership role at UNB’s Centre for Technology Management and Entrepreneurship. 13 $1.30 Add
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From the Dolomites to the Dardanelles

From the Dolomites to the Dardanelles

From: The Great Class War 1914-1918

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 In 1915, countless allied lives, mainly Australian and New Zealander, are wasted in a vain attempt to advance toward Istanbul via the Gallipoli Peninsula and thus to knock the Ottoman Empire out … 18 $1.80 Add
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From the Fur Trade to Big Oil

From the Fur Trade to Big Oil

From: Organizing the 1%

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 The Making of Corporate Power ; 31 $3.10 Add
From the Great Transformation to the Great Financialization

From the Great Transformation to the Great Financialization

On Karl Polanyi and Other Essays

 Four years into the unfolding of the most serious economic crisis since the 1930s, Karl Polanyi’s prediction of the fateful consequences of unleashing the destructive power of unregulated … 294 View
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From the Oil Shock to the National Energy Policy: Petro Panic in the 1970s and 1980s
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From the Oil Shock to the National Energy Policy: Petro Panic in the 1970s and 1980s

From: Capitalism, Colonialism, and Crises

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 This chapter examines postwar Canadian energy policy, including the controverial National Energy Policy of the Pierre Trudeau government and the Alberta resistance. Palmer outlines how … 13 $1.30 Add
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From the Quiet Revolution to the First Sovereignty Referendum

From the Quiet Revolution to the First Sovereignty Referendum

From: Our Lives: Canada after 1945

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 1963-1980. Looks at the dramatic social change in francophone Quebec and the Quiet Revolution as a society-wide movement that imbraced Trade Unions, the women’s movement, and even the … 33 $3.30 Add
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From the Second World War to Cold War and Post-Colonialism, 1939–1980
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From the Second World War to Cold War and Post-Colonialism, 1939–1980

From: Humans

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 This chapter discusses how, as the supremacy of European imperialism was replaced by the imperial power of the United States and the Soviet Union after WWII, popular resistance in the form of … 45 $4.50 Add
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From the Tar Sands to “Green Jobs”? Work and Ecological Justice

From the Tar Sands to “Green Jobs”? Work and Ecological Justice

Part III: Future Prospects

From: A Line in the Tar Sands

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 In Chapter 27, Greg Albo and Lilian Yap discuss the ecological and social implications climate change has—or should have— in becoming a central parameter for all discussions of work … ; 13 $1.30 Add
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From Welfare State to Partner State
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From Welfare State to Partner State

From: Civilizing the State

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 From Welfare State to Partner State delves into imagining a new form of civil society and governance that involves democratization and empowerment, which has been called the Partner State. 17 $1.70 Add