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Afterword

Looking 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. ; 22 $2.20 Add
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Against Landlord Technology in San Francisco
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Against Landlord Technology in San Francisco

From: Dispatches from the Threshold

In this chapter, the authors examine how landlord technology in San Francisco, from the 1970s through the 2020s, accelerates gentrification and surveillance. ; 13 $1.30 Add
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Aging Well

Aging Well

Strategies for Wellbeing Among Older Women in a “Restructuring” Ontario.

From: Care and Consequences

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Agitation and Rebellion:

Agitation and Rebellion:

Riel and the Farmers in the 1880s

From: The Rise of the New West

Regarding Farmers in the prairies A close examination of the record shows that from the outset, the farmers’ agitations had more to do with senators than seasons, with railway charges than … 10 $1.00 Add
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Agricultural Change and Sustainable Development

Agricultural Change and Sustainable Development

From: Human Development

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Aid for Trade

Aid for Trade

From: Fixing Fashion

The chapter Aid for Trade takes a look at the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement over 20 years, considering who has benefitted. It also analyzes statistics and outcomes by country, … 13 $1.30 Add
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Alberta

Alberta

From: Canada Since 1960: A People's History

Reading nearly fifty years of Canadian Dimension’s eye on Alberta is both sobering and heartening. Sobering because one realizes how little the province’s political culture and … 9 $0.90 Add
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Alienating Agreements; or Treaties as Thievery — Early Capitalism at Work in the 1870s and 1880s

Alienating Agreements; or Treaties as Thievery — Early Capitalism at Work in the 1870s and 1880s

From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada’s Origins 1500-1890

This chapter looks at John A. MacDonald’s National Policy in the 1870s ‘ and 1880s’ post-Confederation Canada in the form of railroads, tariffs and immigration, as well as the … 15 $1.50 Add
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Alphabet Soup

Alphabet Soup

From: Fixing Fashion

In Alphabet Soup, the author begins to examine his process of engaging with the darkers aspects of the global fashion industry, such as child labor, global trade agreements and their impacts, … 36 $3.60 Add
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American Fans and Partners of Hitler

American Fans and Partners of Hitler

From: Big Business and Hitler

Revisionist historian Jacques R. Pauwels looks at the support that Hitler received from American industrialists and bankers who were tied to German business from 1920-1940. 17 $1.70 Add
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American Workers and the Left after Trump
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American Workers and the Left after Trump

Polarized Options

From: The Socialist Register 2022

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 … 19 $1.90 Add
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An Economy of Fair Trade and Right Relations

An Economy of Fair Trade and Right Relations

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

Common cause projects can at the same time tackle the global and local activist divide, bringing members of national and international groups together with local, grounded activists. 14 $1.40 Add
An Economy of Well-Being

An Economy of Well-Being

Common-sense tools for building genuine wealth and happiness

In the face of political, financial, and environmental upheaval, it’s difficult to slow down and build lives of mindfulness and joy. These things are within reach, but how can we go about … 242 View
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An example of regulatory chill

An example of regulatory chill

From: Sold Down the Yangtze

Opponents of investor-state arbitration have long warned that it may lead to so-called “regulatory chill,” by creating financial risks for countries that deter responsible regulation … 10 $1.00 Add
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An Historical Frame for Current Activism

An Historical Frame for Current Activism

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

If we want to come home to the Earth, reviving our sense of connection to it, we must first come home to ourselves, healing our relationship with ourselves, and those around us. 9 $0.90 Add
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An interview With Andreas Malm
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An interview With Andreas Malm

From: Crisis and Contagion

In this chapter, Ian McKay interviews Andreas Malm about issues relating to COVID-19. Andreas Malm is an associate professor of human ecology at Lund University in Sweden. He is the author of … 19 $1.90 Add