Labour & Labour Unions
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From  NEW! All Work and (Almost) No PayFrom: Solidarity Beyond Bars |
Chapter Two maps out prison labour in Canada. Covering institutional labour and prison industry programs, prison labour in the federal system and provincial systems, the issues of low wages, lack … | Asaf Rashid; Jordan House | 30 | 2022 | $3.00 Add |
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From  NEW! An Uneasy MarriageFrom: The Fire and the Ashes |
This chapter examines the marriage of labour and social democracy in Canada, which dates to the founding of the New Democratic Party in 1961. He suggests that the NDP has moderated its … | Andrew Jackson | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
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From  NEW! “Another Kind of Violence” |
From Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks: The Men Who Built Modern Toronto in the 1960s–70s | Gilberto Fernandes | 20 | 2026 | $2.00 Add |
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From  Assessing the Contemporary Working-Class Movement |
David Camfield | 12 | 2011 | $2.40 Add | |
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From  BibliographyFrom: Winnipeg 1919 |
Norman Penner | 2 | 2019 | $0.20 Add | |
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From NEW! Bread and Butter |
From Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks: The Men Who Built Modern Toronto in the 1960s–70s | Gilberto Fernandes | 10 | 2026 | $1.00 Add |
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From  NEW! BrotherhoodFrom: Seven Days in Halifax |
In this chapter, Ashe describes the events of Day Three of Halifax’s 1970 “Encounter on Urban Environment,” focusing on a session on Halifax Shipyards. He highlights the … | Robert Ashe | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
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From NEW! Brothers! Fratelli! Irmãos! |
From Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks: The Men Who Built Modern Toronto in the 1960s–70s | Gilberto Fernandes | 11 | 2026 | $1.10 Add |
 Building a Better World Third EditionAn Introduction to the Labour Movement in Canada |
This third edition of Building a Better World offers a comprehensive introductory overview of Canada’s labour movement. The book includes an analysis of why workers form unions; assesses … | 232 | View | ||
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From  Building Relationships: Indigenous-Settler Solidarity and the NFUFrom: Frontline Farmers |
The last chapter considers the National Farmers Union’s work in building relationships of solidarity with Indigenous peoples of Canada. Interviews are with Maureen Bostock, Julie Enman, … | Lauren Kepkiewicz | 20 | 2019 | $2.00 Add |
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From NEW! “Can You Hear Me?” |
From Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks: The Men Who Built Modern Toronto in the 1960s–70s | Gilberto Fernandes | 16 | 2026 | $1.60 Add |
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From  A Union for EveryoneFrom: A New Kind of Union |
Describes the continued efforts of the CEP and the CAW to negotiate the New Union Project from 2012-2013. Analyzes debates over how the new union can represent Canadians from a wide variety of … | Fred Wilson | 38 | 2019 | $3.80 Add |
Canadian Labour in CrisisReinventing the Workers' Movement |
Does Canada have a working-class movement? Though many of us think of ourselves as middle class, most of us are, in fact, working class: we work for a wage. And though many of us are members of … | David Camfield | 108 | 2011 | View |
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From  Canadian Motordom in Depression and WarFrom: Car Nation |
1930-1945. Looks at the downturn for the auto industry during the Great Depression, the unionization of the industry, and the effect of WWII on the auto industry. Specifically uses the life of … | Dimitry Anastakis | 17 | 2008 | $1.70 Add |
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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! Capital, the State, and the 1960s Appetite for Reform: From Conciliation to Containment |
This chapter outlines Canadian political and economic history from 1945-1960s. Palmer describes how Liberal governments expanded welfare and the social safety net, and how labour unions expanded, … | Bryan D. Palmer | 12 | 2026 | $1.20 Add |
