Labour & Labour Unions
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From ![]() Canada’s UnionFrom: A New Kind of Union |
Documents the immediate effect Unifor had on Canadian labour after its founding in 2013. Provides a brief overview of Unifor’s policies and how they affected Canadian labour and politics, … | Fred Wilson | 63 | 2019 | $6.30 Add |
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From ![]() IntroductionFrom: Winnipeg 1919 |
Norman Penner provides a brief summary of the events of the strike and subsequent legal action and provides context for the documents that make up the text, as well as a disussion of the role … | Norman Penner | 16 | 2019 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! IntroductionFrom: Leading Progess |
Jason Russell | 7 | 2020 | $0.70 Add | |
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From ![]() NEW! IntroductionPrison Labour and Punishment From: Solidarity Beyond Bars |
The Introduction "Prison Labour and Publishment" discusses the current state of Canadian prisons and lives of its prisoners, the idea of “rehabilitation," prison labour … | Asaf Rashid; Jordan House | 14 | 2022 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() Introduction |
Uses fictional names to exemplify the particular movements that the book discusses. A short concise history of the labour movement in Canada and what we need to understand about it in the social … | Craig Heron | 13 | 2012 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() IntroductionFrom: Law at Work |
Glasbeek introduces the central ideas explored throughout the book, highlighting how the law is structured to maintain systems of oppression under capitalism. | Harry Glasbeek | 9 | 2024 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() Introduction |
David Camfield | 8 | 2011 | $1.60 Add | |
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From ![]() Introduction to the Second EditionFrom: Winnipeg 1919 |
Norman Penner discusses the impact that the first edition of Winnipeg 1919 had upon its publication in 1973 and the role that the Winnipeg strike has had in shaping the Canadian labour movement … | Norman Penner | 5 | 2019 | $0.50 Add |
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From ![]() Introduction to the Third EditionFrom: Winnipeg 1919 |
Christo Aivalis provides a summary of the role Winnipeg 1919 has played since the publication of its first edition in 1973, as well how the events of the strike shaped to Canadian labour movement … | Christo Aivalis | 14 | 2019 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() Introduction Union Women’s Learning |
Adriane Paavo; Cindy Hanson | 6 | 2019 | $0.60 Add | |
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From ![]() Krafting a Boycott: NFU Takes on a Corporate GiantFrom: Frontline Farmers |
The second chapter looks at the development and experiences of interviewed farmers of the 1971 boycott on Kraft products. The interviews are with Dan Kossick and Barbara Campbell. | Carla Fehr | 21 | 2019 | $2.10 Add |
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From ![]() Labour at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century |
Canadian Unions had a rough ride over the decade and a half after the mid-1990s The state and business initiatives that had sapped labour’s strength continued and had forced the labour … | Craig Heron | 23 | 2012 | $2.30 Add |
![]() Labour in Canada Cracking Labour’s Glass CeilingTransforming Lives Through Women's Unison Education |
Although the health of the trade union movement may rest on its ability to include women in membership and leadership, little attention has been paid to women-only labour education. This original … | Adriane Paavo; Cindy Hanson; Sisters in Labour Education | 144 | 2019 | View |
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From ![]() NEW! Labour’s Agenda in a Period of ReactionFrom: The Fire and the Ashes |
In this chapter, Jackson examines CLC policies in the 1980s and 1990s, which struck a balance between inward-looking economic nationalism, regulating access to domestic markets, and a more … | Andrew Jackson | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
![]() Law at WorkThe Coercion and Co-option of the Working Class |
This book uncovers how the legal system, through its structures and mechanisms, legitimizes and reinforces the exploitation of workers. Using historic and contemporary examples, Glasbeek … | Harry Glasbeek | 354 | 2024 | View |
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From ![]() Leaders for TomorrowPutting Diverse Leadership in ETFO |
Chapter Eight, by Carol Zavitz, with staff in the Equality and Women’s Services department at the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario, describes the structure and analyzes the … | Carol Zavitz | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |













