Labour
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From  Canada to France: Death Behind the Lines |
CLC contingents were assigned along the Western Front but primarily in Northern France and Belgium where they were subject to enemy bombing raids and other dangers. (Chapter includes four photographs) | Dan Black | 23 | 2019 | $2.30 Add |
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From Canada to France: Far From Home, Far From Over |
Almost all CLC contingents remained in Europe following the Armistice, put to work cleaning and clearing the Western front. (Chapter includes three photographs) | Dan Black | 23 | 2019 | $2.30 Add |
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From Canada to France: Homeward |
Black outlines the homeward journey of many CLC contingents: from Europe to England, to Halifax, to Vancouver, to China. (Chapter includes four photographs) | Dan Black | 23 | 2019 | $2.30 Add |
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From Canada to France: Off the Water, Onto the Rails |
As more and more CLC contingents boarded trains in Vancouver for their cross-country trip, the Canadian government had difficulty stifling news reports of the men and their mission. (Chapter … | Dan Black | 22 | 2019 | $2.20 Add |
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From Canada to France: The Wanted and Unwanted |
The chapter examines Canada’s immigration policies prior to the CLC experiment and ends with Livingstone’s contingent boarding trains heading east. (Chapter includes two photographs) | Dan Black | 21 | 2019 | $2.10 Add |
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From Canada to France: The Western Front |
Livingstone and his CLC contingent arrive in England and travel to France. Black outlines the work being done by Chinese labourers on the Western Front. (Chapter includes four photographs) | Dan Black | 22 | 2019 | $2.20 Add |
 Canada’s State Police150 years of the RCMP |
Stripping away the myth of the RCMP, historian Greg Marquis offers an account of 150 years of a state police force acting on behalf of the wealthy and powerful. From its start policing Indigenous … | 304 | View | ||
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From  NEW! Canadian Motordom in Depression and WarFrom: Car Nation Canada |
In this chapter, Anastakis covers the 1930s and the Second World War period. Topics include the auto and the 1930s Depression, war production by auto manufacturers, union organizing in the war … | Dimitry Anastakis | 14 | 2026 | $1.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Capitalist Economic Development and Popular Responses Before the First World War in EuropeFrom: Humans |
This chapter looks at worker resistance to the European imperialist and capitalist agenda from 1500 up to the First World War. It discusses the demands for collective rights and social democracy … | Alvin Finkel | 38 | 2024 | $3.80 Add |
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NEW! Car Nation CanadaAn illustrated history |
A full-colour illustrated history of cars and car-makers, with images of Canadian cars old and new, plus car company ads and promotional images. Canadians have been building cars from the … | Dimitry Anastakis | 106 | 2026 | View |
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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  Chapter 1From status to contract: Toward new legal forms of worker subjugation From: Law at Work |
This chapter explores the evolution of labour legislation, highlighting the role these laws played in limiting workers’ rights and reinforcing class hierarchies. It also analyzes collective … | Harry Glasbeek | 18 | 2024 | $1.80 Add |
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From Chapter 12The dignity of work versus the degradation of work under capitalism From: Law at Work |
This chapter examines how the basic structure of capitalism makes work unrewarding, and how legal systems legitimize and reinforce these conditions. It argues that the law not only sustains … | Harry Glasbeek | 29 | 2024 | $2.90 Add |
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From Chapter 13Selected Notes From: Law at Work |
This page lists selected notes used throghout the book. | Harry Glasbeek | 1 | 2024 | $0.10 Add |
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From Chapter 2The Workers' Revolt |
Chapter two deals with the emergence of new workers’ movements on the changing terrain of the Second Industrial Revolution in Canada. It also explores the emerging crisis for craftworkers … | Charles Smith; Craig Heron | 30 | 2020 | $3.00 Add |
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From Chapter 2Capital-labour struggles better described as wars From: Law at Work |
This chapter examines how labour unions and legal reforms from the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth centuries challenged employer dominance, and how the Great Depression prompted worker-focused … | Harry Glasbeek | 16 | 2024 | $1.60 Add |
