Labour
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From  The Economic System–How Does it Work?From: Escape from Overshoot |
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 |
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From  NEW! The Era of NeoliberalismPopular Struggles in a Time of Reaction, 1980–2020s From: Humans |
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 |
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From  NEW! The Fight Against InequalityFrom: The Fire and the Ashes |
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 |
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NEW! The Fire and the AshesRekindling Democratic Socialism |
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 |
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From  The Giant Tamed |
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 |
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From  The Good, the Bad, and the UglyFrom: The Great Greenwashing |
From The Great Greenwashing: How Brands, Governments, and Influencers Are Lying to You | John Pabon | 8 | 2024 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! The Great Free Trade DebateFrom: The Fire and the Ashes |
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 |
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From  NEW! The GulagFrom: Wanda’s War |
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 |
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From  The Heenan DisclosureFrom: Winnipeg 1919 |
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 |
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From  NEW! “The Lucky Things That Happen to Me” |
This chapter traces the life of Gerry Gallagher, an Irish immigrant who arrived in Canada in 1951 to organize construction workers. It examines his wartime experiences, his founding of LIUNA … | Gilberto Fernandes | 15 | 2026 | $1.50 Add |
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From  The McLaughlins vs. The Workers |
In this chapter, Leah traces class conflict in Oshawa, Ontario, from the 1860s through the 1940s, centring on the McLaughlin family and the workers who built the town’s industrial identity. | Tony Leah | 13 | 2024 | $1.30 Add |
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From The New Resistance |
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 |
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From NEW! The Reckoning, Part IFrom: Wanda’s War |
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 |
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From NEW! The Reckoning, Part IIFrom: Wanda’s War |
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 |
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From The Strike |
In this chapter, Leah examines the conditions that led to the 1937 General Motors strike in Oshawa, Ontario, and the organization of the strike itself. | Tony Leah | 75 | 2024 | $7.50 Add |
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From  The technical is politicalFrom: Bent out of Shape |
Karen Messing | 28 | 2021 | $2.80 Add |
