Labour & Labour Unions

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! Capitalism and Colonialism Unchecked: After the 2025 Election From: Capitalism, Colonialism, and Crises View James Lorimer and Company	In this chapter, Palmer outlines the key policies put in place by the Carney Liberals in 2025-26, including the turn away from labour, Indigenous communities and their rights, and environmental …	Bryan D. Palmer	25	2026	$2.50 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
From Chapter 8 Helping employers out: A private sphere of criminal justice From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	This chapter discusses how the contract of employment is a contract of submission. It highlights the ways the law also ensures that it is a contract of subordination, giving ownership of the …	Harry Glasbeek	32	2024	$3.20 Add
From Chronology of the Main Events of the Winnipeg General Strike From: Winnipeg 1919 View James Lorimer and Company	A day-by-day summary of the events of the strike, from May 1-June 26, 1919	Norman Penner	3	2019	$0.30 Add
From NEW! Class War Waged from Above, 1975–2000 From: Capitalism, Colonialism, and Crises View James Lorimer and Company	In this chapter, Palmer examines the decline of Canadian labour movement from the 1970s to the 1990s. Provincial government officials fought civil servants over wages and weakened unions’ …	Bryan D. Palmer	13	2026	$1.30 Add
From Concepts From: Canadian Labour in Crisis View Fernwood Publishing		David Camfield	2	2011	$0.40 Add