Labour
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From  Canada to China: Overland, but Under Guard |
The chapter explores how both Canadian and Chinese men passed their time on the train journey westward, and the security protocols adopted to ensure CLC conscripts did not desert. (Chapter … | Dan Black | 11 | 2019 | $1.10 Add |
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From Canada to China: Starting Out |
An account of Harry Livingstone’s initial train journey across Canada in 1917 and those CLC men moving West. (Chapter includes four photographs) | Dan Black | 20 | 2019 | $2.00 Add |
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From Canada to China: The Missionaries |
A short history of Canadian Christian missionaries to China and the role they played in the CLC. (Chapter includes three photographs) | Dan Black | 22 | 2019 | $2.20 Add |
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From Canada to France: A Journey Between Oceans |
Black explores the train voyage between Vancouver and Halifax, and highlights the ships selected to take the CLC contingents to Britain and France. (Chapter includes three photographs) | Dan Black | 23 | 2019 | $2.30 Add |
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From Canada to France: Back Behind Wire |
The chapter examines the hastily set-up transit camp at Petawawa, Ontario, that temporarily housed CLC contingents. (Chapter includes three photographs) | Dan Black | 26 | 2019 | $2.60 Add |
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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 … | Greg Marquis | 304 | 2024 | View |
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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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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 |
