Social Movements

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Section Four From: Beryl View Between The Lines	This section provides a look into Beryl’s fight for accessible public transport, her recognition by the Ontario government her command of storytelling to pursuade, and the beginning of her …	Dustin Galer	42	2023	$4.20 Add
From Section One From: Beryl View Between The Lines	In this section, the author provides context to Beryl’s upbringing, and recounts her arrival to Canada, as well as her starting a family and suffering a tragic accident which alters her …	Dustin Galer	58	2023	$5.80 Add
From Section Three From: Beryl View Between The Lines	This section continues Beryl’s journey from life-changing accident to becoming a well known disability rights advocate, discussing the impact she was able to have and the struggles she …	Dustin Galer	62	2023	$6.20 Add
From Section Two From: Beryl View Between The Lines	In this section the author details the aftermath of Beryl’s accident and her subsequent problems with addiction, and her resilience and the start of her advocacy and activism. This section …	Dustin Galer	54	2023	$5.40 Add
From Setting the Stage From: The Truth About the '37 Oshawa GM Strike View Baraka Books	In this chapter, Leah traces the transformation of Canadian auto industry labour organizing from 1934 to the 1937 General Motors strike in Oshawa, Ontario.	Tony Leah	27	2024	$2.70 Add
Seven Days in Halifax When citizens confronted the racists, liars and incompetents who ran their city Formac Publishing	Halifax today lives with the results of bad decisions made decades ago. A container port accessible only through narrow downtown streets. A park, bridge and port on the spot where Africville was …	Robert Ashe	338	2025	View
From NEW! Snow of a Different Kind From: Eyes Have Seen View Baraka Books	In this chapter, Anderson examines the 1969 occupation of Sir George Williams University in Montreal, sparked by Caribbean students’ complaint about a professor’s biased grading.	Fred Anderson	5	2025	$0.50 Add
From Social Movement Organizations as a Vehicle for Change From: Take Back the Fight View Fernwood Publishing	Chapter four, Social Movement Organizations as a Vehicle for Change, first unpacks what movement organizations are, looking at the campaign for maternity leave as a case study, and then …	Nora Loreto	18	2020	$1.80 Add
Take Back the Fight Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age	Two decades of neoliberalism have destroyed a structured, pan-regional feminist movement in Canada. As a result, new generations of feminists have come to age without ever seeing the force that …		256		View
From NEW! The Colonized Strike Back: Quebec, 1960–72 From: Capitalism, Colonialism, and Crises View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter explores how in the early 1960s Quebec sovereignists reframed francophone economic subordination as internal colonialism. Worker exploitation and separatist sentiment together with …	Bryan D. Palmer	13	2026	$1.30 Add
The History of Montréal The Story of a Great North American City Baraka Books	Montreal is one of those unique cities at the crossroads of history. Paul-André Linteau’s The History of Montréal provides essential background for both Montrealers and all those …	Paul-André Linteau	206	2013	View
From NEW! The House on Portland Street From: Seven Days in Halifax View Formac Publishing	In this chapter, Ashe describes events of Day Five of Halifax’s 1970 "Encounter on Urban Environment," on community policing. He recounts an incident where Dartmouth’s …	Robert Ashe	5	2025	$0.50 Add
From The Insurrectionary Moment, 1837-38 From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada’s Origins 1500-1890 View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter discusses social conflict in early nineteenth century Canada,coming to a head in the Upper Canada Rebellion and the Lower Canada Rebellion.	Bryan D. Palmer	10	2024	$1.00 Add
NEW! The Mantle of Struggle A Biography of Black Revolutionary Rosie Douglas Between The Lines	Rosie Douglas, former prime minister of Dominica, had a life unlike any other modern politician. After leaving home to study agriculture in Canada, he became a member of the young Conservatives, …	Irving Andre	360	2023	View
From The Métis Nation and Provisional Government in the North-West, 1869-71 From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada’s Origins 1500-1890 View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter examines the Metis nation in communities such as the Red River and Saskatchewan River in the late nineteenth-century Canadian colony, the Canada Party, Louis Riel, and the …	Bryan D. Palmer	12	2024	$1.20 Add
From NEW! The Radicalization of the 1960s From: Capitalism, Colonialism, and Crises View James Lorimer and Company	In this chapter, Palmer explores how Old Left and Communist Party activists adapted to intense ideological shifts and New Left youth activism across Canada. He describes how student organizers …	Bryan D. Palmer	12	2026	$1.20 Add