Labour

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From The Case of the Cabot Mill SECTION TWO - The other side of the cotton From: A Distinct Alien Race View Baraka Books	The Cabot Company continued to house most of the rapidly growing Franco-American population throughout the 19th century; in this chapter, the author explores the history of this company and the …	David Vermette	24	2018	$2.40 Add
From The Craftworkers’ Challenge From: The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History View James Lorimer and Company	We meet the first movement of organized craftworkers beginning to take shape in the mid-nineteenth century in response to the new capitalist organization of work and labour markets. By the end of …	Craig Heron	27	2012	$2.70 Add
From NEW! The Divided House of Labour From: The Fire and the Ashes View Between The Lines	In this chapter, Jackson examines the Canadian Labour Congress, which appointed him senior economist on May Day 1989. He suggests that the CLC is a fragile body compared with central labour …	Andrew Jackson	17	2021	$1.70 Add
From The Economic System–How Does it Work? From: Escape from Overshoot View New Society Publishers	In this chapter the author discusses economic theory through various historical thinkers, with a focus on free markets.	Peter Victor A.	30	2023	$3.00 Add
From NEW! The Era of Neoliberalism Popular Struggles in a Time of Reaction, 1980–2020s From: Humans View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter looks at the supremacy of neoliberalism in advanced capitalist societies, particularly in the midst of the dissolution of the Communist bloc, and the increasing disparity between …	Alvin Finkel	40	2024	$4.00 Add
From NEW! The Fight Against Inequality From: The Fire and the Ashes View Between The Lines	In this chapter, Jackson writes about the Great Recession of 2008-2009, and suggests that the functioning of democracies relies on economic and social equality. The best way to achieve this …	Andrew Jackson	5	2021	$0.50 Add
NEW! The Fire and the Ashes Rekindling Democratic Socialism Between The Lines	In The Fire and the Ashes, long-time union economist and policy analyst Andrew Jackson looks back on a fascinating career in the labour movement, the NDP, and left politics, combining keen …	Andrew Jackson	180	2021	View
From The Giant Tamed From: The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History View James Lorimer and Company	Explores the slow, uphill battle to shake the solid hegemony of Canadian employers in industrial life in the two decades between the wars and then the breakthrough that took place at the end of …	Craig Heron	27	2012	$2.70 Add
From NEW! The Great Free Trade Debate From: The Fire and the Ashes View Between The Lines	This chapter concerns the authors’ work on the free trade debates in 1988, which culminated in the edited collection The Free Trade Deal.	Andrew Jackson	4	2021	$0.40 Add
From NEW! The Gulag From: Wanda’s War View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter 2 focuses on Casey (Kazimierz) Surdykowski, Wanda’s husband. The chapter tries to piece together Casey’s early life in interwar Poland, his family’s life as military …	Marsha Faubert	11	2023	$1.10 Add
From The Heenan Disclosure From: Winnipeg 1919 View James Lorimer and Company	An overview of Liberal MP Peter Heenan’s disclosure of documents relating to the strike to parliament on June 2, 1926	Norman Penner	2	2019	$0.20 Add
From The New Resistance From: The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History View James Lorimer and Company	We watch the industrial regime of legalized collective bargaining established in the 1940s come apart in the 1960s abd 1970s under pressure from angry rank-and-file unionists and militiant …	Craig Heron	22	2012	$2.20 Add
From NEW! The Reckoning, Part I From: Wanda’s War View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter 8 focuses on the Nuremberg trials, and other efforts to hold perpetrators of war crimes during the Second World War criminally responsible.	Marsha Faubert	17	2023	$1.70 Add
From NEW! The Reckoning, Part II From: Wanda’s War View Goose Lane Editions	Chapter 14 discusses the questions surrounding compensation for many of the victims of Nazi war crimes that were still unresolved by the 1990s for their historical responsibilities of forced …	Marsha Faubert	18	2023	$1.80 Add
From The technical is political From: Bent out of Shape View Between The Lines		Karen Messing	28	2021	$2.80 Add
From The third hour From: Bent out of Shape View Between The Lines		Karen Messing	19	2021	$1.90 Add