Income Inequality

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Bankrupticies & Bailouts Fernwood Publishing	Recession? Depression? Market adjustment? Billion-dollar bailouts? Just what is happening to the economy? Like the rest of the industrialized world, Canada is in the midst of an economic crisis …	Julie Guard; Wayne Antony	168	2009	View
Basic Income For Canadians From the Covid-19 Emergency to Financial Security for All James Lorimer and Company	Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the idea of providing a basic income to everyone in Canada who needs it was already gaining broad support. Then, in response to a crisis that threatened to put …	Evelyn L. Forget	258	2020	View
Hollow Work, Hollow Society? Globalization and the Casual Labour Problem in Canada Fernwood Publishing	More and more people in Canada and other Western countries are now working at part-time, short-term and other casual jobs. People are now asking: What happened to full-time employment? Why is …	Dave Broad	112	2000	View
If You’re In My Way, I’m Walking The Assault on Working People Since 1970 Fernwood Publishing	“If you’re in my way I’m walking.” This arrogant statement by former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien on the occasion of his physical altercation with a protester in …	Thom Workman	160	2005	View
The Age of Increasing Inequality The Astonishing Rise of Canada's 1% James Lorimer and Company	For 35 years, Canada has become vastly wealthier, but most people have not. This book documents the dramatic and rapid growth in inequality. It identifies the causes. It proposes meaningful steps …	Lars Osberg	248	2018	View
NEW! The Case for Basic Income Freedom, Security, Justice Between The Lines	Inequality is up. Decent work is down. Free market fundamentalism has been exposed as a tragic failure. In a job market upended by COVID-19—with Canadians caught in the grip of precarious …	Dr. Danielle Martin; Elaine Power; Jamie Swift	264	2021	View
NEW! The Scandalous Rise of Inequality in Canada James Lorimer and Company	There are more billionaires than ever in Canada – and they are capturing an ever-growing share of the country’s wealth. Meanwhile 90% of Canadians are steadily losing ground. …	Lars Osberg	288	2024	View
NEW! The Tenant Class Between The Lines	In this trailblazing manifesto, political economist Ricardo Tranjan places tenants and landlords on either side of the class divide that splits North American society. What if there is no housing …	Ricardo Tranjan	145	2023	View
From NEW! Forward and On Basic Income by George Elliot Clark From: The Case for Basic Income View Between The Lines	In the forward, Dr. Martin links basic income to human health, and notes this link is more obvious than ever because of the COVID-19 pandemic.	Dr. Danielle Martin; George Elliot Clarke	8	2021	$0.80 Add
From Introduction From: The Age of Increasing Inequality View James Lorimer and Company	The history of economic inequality in Canada and briefly touches on the other forms of inequality that exist in Canada which would persist even if economic inequality was eliminated. Briefly …	Lars Osberg	18	2018	$1.80 Add
From Introduction From: Basic Income For Canadians View James Lorimer and Company	The introduction provides an overview of the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic how it may play a role in the adoption of basic income.	Evelyn L. Forget	6	2020	$0.60 Add
From NEW! Introduction From: The Scandalous Rise of Inequality in Canada View James Lorimer and Company	In the Introduction, the author explains the background for writing this book on the growth of inequality in Canada, and the effect of the Covid pandemic and the climate crisis in recent years on …	Lars Osberg	22	2024	$2.20 Add
From Malcolm Gladwell in Conversation with Rudyard Griffiths April 9, 2020 From: The World After Covid View House of Anansi Press	Malcolm Gladwell and Rudyard Griffiths discuss Covid-19 and America’s response to it. Topics include social inequality, health care, ethics, human social behaviours, climate change, and …	Rudyard Griffiths	11	2021	$1.10 Add
From The Economic Crisis Class Warfare from Reagan to Obama From: Bankrupticies & Bailouts View Fernwood Publishing		Robert Chernomas	14	2009	$1.40 Add
From The Neoliberal Rollback in Historical Perspective From: If You're In My Way, I'm Walking View Fernwood Publishing		Thom Workman	28	2005	$4.48 Add
From A Guaranteed Livable Income for Canadians From: Basic Income For Canadians View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter provides an outline of what basic income is.	Evelyn L. Forget	27	2020	$2.70 Add