Labour & Labour Unions

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Building a Better World Third Edition An 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
From Building Relationships: Indigenous-Settler Solidarity and the NFU From: Frontline Farmers View Fernwood Publishing	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
From A Union for Everyone From: A New Kind of Union View James Lorimer and Company	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 Crisis Reinventing the Workers' Movement Fernwood Publishing	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
From Canadian Motordom in Depression and War From: Car Nation View James Lorimer and Company	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
From NEW! Capitalist Confederated Canada The Emergence of Organized Labour and Class Conflict, 1870-90 From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter examines the tumult of the 1870s in Canada, including the Pacific Scandal of 1873, Indigenous resistance in the North-West and the global financial pandemic from 1873 to 1897, which …	Bryan D. Palmer	12	2024	$1.20 Add
From Chapter 1 From status to contract: Toward new legal forms of worker subjugation From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	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
From Chapter 11 A legal right to maim and kill workers From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	This chapter examines how the structures and ideology supported by law to maintain and perpetuate capitalism ensure the dominance of one class over another. It also discusses how, when it comes …	Harry Glasbeek	33	2024	$3.30 Add
From Chapter 12 The dignity of work versus the degradation of work under capitalism From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	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
From Chapter 13 Selected Notes From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	This page lists selected notes used throghout the book.	Harry Glasbeek	1	2024	$0.10 Add
From Chapter 2 Capital-labour struggles better described as wars From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	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
From Chapter 3 World War II: Promises made, fulfilled, and then diluted From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	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 …	Harry Glasbeek	28	2024	$2.80 Add
From Chapter 4 The common law’s anti-collectivism and the impoverished right to strike From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	This chapter examines how competitive capitalism undermined worker solidarity by pressuring individuals to compete for jobs and accept employer conditions, which widened the divide between …	Harry Glasbeek	39	2024	$3.90 Add
From Chapter 5 How judges are programmed to define and interpret contracts of employment From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	This chapter explains how the legal system and the rules and decisions which show the law lives comfortable with differential treatment, prioritizes property rights and employer interests often …	Harry Glasbeek	14	2024	$1.40 Add
From Chapter 6 How employers avoid the employment contract’s strictures and profit from its principles and ideology From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	The story shared in this chapter highlights the measures capitalists will take to escape legal regulations that try to restrict their profit-maximization drive. It also describes how capitalists …	Harry Glasbeek	25	2024	$2.50 Add
From Chapter 7 Workers’ need to expand the scope of contracts of employment From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	This chapter discusses the ways in which capitalists seek for ways to maximize profits, including finding ways to pass the costs of making profits on to others and pressuring governments to …	Harry Glasbeek	27	2024	$2.70 Add