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Home Care: Gendered Violence in Independent Living Attendant Services

Independent Living and Direct Funding Expanded Sense of Violence and Feelings of Risk Experiences of Gendered Violence Gendered and Racialized Hiring Practices Concluding Thoughts Notes References

From: Not A New Problem

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Imagining Socialism

From: Twilight Capitalism

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In the concluding chapter, the authors review several notable ways of conceiving an alternative to capitalism, drawing important lessons – both positive and negative – from the … ; ; 21 $2.10 Add
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Immigrant Men’s and Women’s Occupational Health

Questioning the Myths

From: Sick and Tired

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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 12 $1.20 Add
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Increasing Corporate Taxes

From: Share the Wealth!

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Readings in part 2 of this title explore potential solutions to income inequality in Canada. This chapter discusses the taxation of large Canadian corporations. Topics discussed include how … ; 10 $1.00 Add
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Introduction to Part III

Growing the Commonsverse

From: Free, Fair and Alive

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This introduction to the third part takes stock of what the book has covered so far, and indicates that the third part will deal with the issue of how commons fit into the context of larger … 6 $0.60 Add
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Medical students and physicians-in-training (residents)

get them while they are young

From: Doctors in Denial

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Examines the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on medical education in Canada. 28 $2.80 Add
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Migrant Justice and the Tar Sands Industry

Part I: Tar Sands Expansionism

From: A Line in the Tar Sands

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Chapter 7 is an interview with Harsha Walia by John Kahn Russell. ; 7 $0.70 Add
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Moving Forward

From: Getting to Zero

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Identifies how grassroots movements and organizations can move forward to develop sector profiles, targets, and plans of action to create sustained climate action. 43 $4.30 Add
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Mussolini the Humanitarian

Was the Duce a "benign" dictator?

From: Mussolini Also Did A Lot of Good

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This chapter challenges the notion that Mussolini "wasn’t that bad" as a man and in comparison to other fascist leaders such as Adolf Hitler. It explores Mussolini’s racist, … 35 $3.50 Add
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Mutual Aid among Ourselves

From: Mutual Aid

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In Chapter VII, Kropotkin explores examples of mutual aid in in recent history. Topics discussed include popular revolts, mutual aid institutions, the struggle of community verses its abolition … 23 $2.30 Add
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Mythbusting

From: Basic Income For Canadians

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This chapter debunks a variety of myths surrounding basic income 30 $3.00 Add
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Of Resources and Constitutions:

The Rising of the New West

From: The Rise of the New West

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1960s absence of general economic diversification causes the west to open their provinces to virtually unrestricted resource development. 1970s, the resource economy is not working and the west … 40 $4.00 Add
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Oil and the deep state

From: Oil’s Deep State

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Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft analyzes how an economy heavily dependent on oil production sets the stage for a deep state with examples from around the world. 10 $1.00 Add
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Opposition and Surveillance

From: When Poverty Mattered

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Origins and Development of Sexual Work in the United States and Britain

From: Beyond the Periphery of the Skin

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In this chapter, feminist scholar Silvia Federici explores sexual work as a component of capitalism. She suggests that capitalist systems seek to establish sex and reproduction as a utilitarian … 17 $1.70 Add