Labour

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Canada to France: The Western Front

Canada to France: The Western Front

From: Harry Livingstone's Forgotten Men

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) 22 $2.20 Add
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Capitalist Economic Development and Popular Responses Before the First World War in Europe
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Capitalist Economic Development and Popular Responses Before the First World War in Europe

From: 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 … 38 $3.80 Add
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Chapter 1

The Craftworkers' Challenge

From: The Canadian Labour Movement

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 … ; 27 $2.70 Add
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Chapter 1

From 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 … 18 $1.80 Add
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Chapter 12

Chapter 12

The 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 … 29 $2.90 Add
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Chapter 13

Chapter 13

Selected Notes

From: Law at Work

This page lists selected notes used throghout the book. 1 $0.10 Add
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Chapter 2

The Workers' Revolt

From: The Canadian Labour Movement

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 … ; 30 $3.00 Add
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Chapter 2

Capital-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 … 16 $1.60 Add
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Chapter 3

The Giant Tamed

From: The Canadian Labour Movement

This chapter considers the difficulties of organizing against employer hostility, relative state indifference, economic depression in the 1930s and then the emergence of vibrant new … ; 27 $2.70 Add
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Chapter 3

World War II: Promises made, fulfilled, and then diluted

From: Law at Work

This chapter looks at how labour policies changed during and after World War II, where many of the advances made by the working class were challenged in the 1930s. It also covers the many worker … 28 $2.80 Add
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Chapter 4

The New Resistance

From: The Canadian Labour Movement

Author Craig Heron explores the rise of new waves of labour unrest in the 1960s and 1970s. The chapter addresses the economic, social and political conditions that spawned this new resistance and … ; 22 $2.20 Add
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Chapter 5

Counterattack

From: The Canadian Labour Movement

Chapter five examines the emerging response of the state and private employers to the new working-class militancy of the 1970s. It considers the introduction of wage and price controls, … ; 26 $2.60 Add
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Chapter 6

Labour Challenges at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

From: The Canadian Labour Movement

This chapter traces the emergence of new forces within the Canadian labour movement aimed at revitalizing it: nationalists upset with the close connection to US labour, Quebec workers determined … ; 34 $3.40 Add
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Chapter 7

The Struggle Continues

From: The Canadian Labour Movement

Chapter seven examines the impact that the triumph of neo-liberalism had on the Canadian labour movement in the 1990s and the early 2000s. It includes the many state measures introduced to … ; 26 $2.60 Add
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China to Canada: Death at Sea

China to Canada: Death at Sea

From: Harry Livingstone's Forgotten Men

Within the story of Livingstone’s return journey to Canada, Black details the conditions on board CLC ships and the many ailments faced by the men of the CLC. (Chapter includes two photographs) 22 $2.20 Add
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China to Canada: Examinations and Inoculations

China to Canada: Examinations and Inoculations

From: Harry Livingstone's Forgotten Men

The chapter outlines the health and physical requirements CLC recruits had to meet in order to join the corps. (Chapter includes four photographs) 21 $2.10 Add