Economics
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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. | Fred Wilson; Jim Stanford | 22 | 2019 | $2.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Against Landlord Technology in San Francisco |
In this chapter, the authors examine how landlord technology in San Francisco, from the 1970s through the 2020s, accelerates gentrification and surveillance. | Erin McElroy; Matthew Martignoni | 13 | 2025 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() Aging WellStrategies for Wellbeing Among Older Women in a “Restructuring” Ontario. From: Care and Consequences |
Douglass Drozdow- St.Christian | 28 | 2000 | $3.08 Add | |
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From ![]() 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 … | John F. Conway | 10 | 2014 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() Agricultural Change and Sustainable DevelopmentFrom: Human Development |
Henry Veltmeyer | 16 | 2014 | $2.40 Add | |
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From ![]() Aid for TradeFrom: 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, … | Michael Lavergne | 13 | 2015 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() Alberta |
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 … | Trevor W. Harrison | 9 | 2016 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() Alienating Agreements; or Treaties as Thievery — Early Capitalism at Work in the 1870s and 1880sFrom: 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 … | Bryan D. Palmer | 15 | 2024 | $1.50 Add |
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From ![]() Alphabet SoupFrom: 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, … | Michael Lavergne | 36 | 2015 | $3.60 Add |
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From ![]() American Fans and Partners of HitlerFrom: 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. | Jacques R. Pauwels | 17 | 2017 | $1.70 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 ![]() An Economy of Fair Trade and Right Relations |
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. | Heather Menzies | 14 | 2014 | $1.40 Add |
![]() An Economy of Well-BeingCommon-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 … | Mark Anielski | 242 | 2018 | View |
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From ![]() An example of regulatory chillFrom: 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 … | Gus Van Harten | 10 | 2015 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() An Historical Frame for Current Activism |
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. | Heather Menzies | 9 | 2014 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! An interview With Andreas MalmFrom: 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 … | Ian McKay | 19 | 2023 | $1.90 Add |

















