Labour
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From  NEW! Timeline of Key EventsFrom: Testimonio |
A thorough timeline of some key events in Guatemalan history starting in 1523 and stretching to 2020. | Catherine Nolin; Grahame Russell | 6 | 2021 | $0.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Treason of the StateFrom: Civilizing the State |
In Treason of the State, the author contextualized his work by examining the history of welfare and poverty policies in the United States. He also explores co-operation, democracy and … | John Restakis | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
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From  A Textile Industry for New EnglandSECTION ONE - From ships’ captains to captains of industry From: A Distinct Alien Race |
This chapter looks at the global economy and textile industry in different contexts at the beginning of the 19th century, then focuses on Boston specifically. It then looks at "Mill … | David Vermette | 15 | 2018 | $1.50 Add |
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From  Against Company, Church, and StateMadeleine Parent and the Dominion Textile Strike of 1946 From: Gender & Sexuality |
- | Scott Neigh | 24 | 2012 | $2.64 Add |
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From  Chapter 1The Craftworkers' Challenge |
This chapter traces the rise of working-class organizing in mid nineteenth-century Canada in the context of Canada’s First Industrial Revolution, moving from informal protests to narrowly … | Charles Smith; Craig Heron | 27 | 2020 | $2.70 Add |
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From  NEW! Discovering Left PoliticsFrom: The Fire and the Ashes |
This chapter details Jackson’s political awakening, the radicalism of the NDP in the 1960s, and his time at the LSE, where he studied with the Marxist theorist Ralph Miliband. | Andrew Jackson | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
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From  IntroductionThe Urgent Need for Wartime Labour |
A short history about why the British and French began to recruit Chinese labourers and formed the Chinese Labour Corps, and the role Canada and Harry Livingstone played in this history. (Chapter … | Dan Black | 27 | 2019 | $2.70 Add |
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From NEW! IntroductionCanadian Mining in a Time of Violence, Corruption, and Impunity in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala From: Testimonio |
- | Catherine Nolin; Grahame Russell | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Introduction to the Second EditionFrom: Winnipeg 1919 |
Norman Penner discusses the impact that the first edition of Winnipeg 1919 had upon its publication in 1973 and the role that the Winnipeg strike has had in shaping the Canadian labour movement … | Norman Penner | 5 | 2019 | $0.50 Add |
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From  PART 1 – Mill LifeFrom: Through the Mill |
This chapter explores the reality of those who worked in the mills. It covers child labour, the hours for workers, wages, workplace safety, and the issue of abusive foremen for female workers. | Gail Cuthbert Brandt | 32 | 2018 | $3.20 Add |
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From  Shame and silence in health careFrom: Bent out of Shape |
- | Karen Messing | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
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From  The Workers’ Revolt |
We find a new wave of organization and agitation rolling through the corportate capitalist world of the early 20th century this time involving both revived craft unions and a new more radical … | Craig Heron | 30 | 2012 | $3.00 Add |
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From  NEW! We Are a Union, What Do We Do Now? 1970-79From: Leading Progess |
This chapter discusses who belonged to and led PIPSC in the 1970s, how collective bargaining took place, and what policy positions the Institute adopted. It also explores the collective … | Jason Russell | 33 | 2020 | $3.30 Add |
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From A feminist intervention that hurt womenFrom: Bent out of Shape |
- | Karen Messing | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
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From  A Moment of TruthFrom: A New Kind of Union |
Documents Canadian labour and the issues that it faced from 2011 – 2012. Details the key events and discussions which led to the creation of Unifor and gives a history of the roles … | Fred Wilson | 31 | 2019 | $3.10 Add |
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From NEW! Achieving Better Results for Members, 1980-89From: Leading Progess |
This chapter describes the issues confronting the PIPSC in the 1980s and how PIPSC responded to these new challenges, drawing on interviews with current and past PIPSC members. | Jason Russell | 30 | 2020 | $3.00 Add |
