Migrant Labour
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From  NEW! Border Militarization, Internalization and Externalization |
Borders have become a means through which states can dispose of unwanted migrants through deportation and award those deemed legitimate with permanent residency. This has led to the increased … | Mostafa Henaway | 10 | 2023 | $1.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Census Making and City Building:Data Perspectives on the 1907 Anti-Asian Riots and the Development of Vancouver From: White Riot |
In this chapter, Yan provides critical context to understanding the 1907 anti-Asian riots in Vancouver. Yan discusses the anti-Asian racism and the unreliable data that led to an inflated number … | Andy Yan | 18 | 2023 | $1.80 Add |
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From  Compound Vulnerabilities and Creative StrategiesOccupational Health of Temporary Foreign Agricultural Workers From: Sick and Tired |
Last Resort or Permanently Temporary Solution? Health Risks and Consequences Challenges in Accessing Rights and Protections Barriers to Prevention and Protection Attempts to Address Challenges … | Janet McLaughlin | 14 | 2018 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! Conclusion: Freedom of Movement for People, Not Capital |
In the conclusion to this book, Heneway discusses capitalism as an economic system, and once again breaks down the impact of globalization on trade and labour. | Mostafa Henaway | 10 | 2023 | $1.00 Add |
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From  NEW! EpilogueFrom: Harvesting Freedom |
The epilogue included a brief poem and a conversation between the authors about how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected conditions for migrant farm workers. | Edward Dunsworth; Gabriel Allahdua | 8 | 2023 | $0.80 Add |
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NEW! Essential Work Disposable WorkersMigration, Capitalism, and Class |
Across the world we are witnessing daily the lethal effects of a rapid and scary hardening of borders, ignited and justified by manufactured fear and scarcity. In such conditions, highly … | Mostafa Henaway | 230 | 2023 | View |
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From NEW! ForewordFrom: White Riot |
The foreword to this book discusses the increase in Chinese and Japanese labourers immigrating to Vancouver, the building of Chinatown and Powell Street, and the racist ideology that led to the … | Patricia E. Roy | 14 | 2023 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! Foreword / Introduction: Essential Yet Disposable |
This section includes the foreword and introduction of this book. In the introduction, Mostafa Heneway describes the political landscape that facilitates the exploitation of migrant workers and … | Mostafa Henaway | 14 | 2023 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! From Farm to Table |
This chapter demonstrates the growing size and power of the food industry in the global economy across its supply chains. Capital-intensive farming, food-processing and major food retailers and … | Mostafa Henaway | 17 | 2023 | $1.70 Add |
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NEW! Harvesting FreedomThe Life of a Migrant Worker in Canada |
In this singular firsthand account, a former migrant worker reveals a disturbing system of exploitation at the heart of Canada’s farm labour system. When Gabriel Allahdua applied to the … | Edward Dunsworth; Gabriel Allahdua | 224 | 2023 | View |
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From Immigrant Men’s and Women’s Occupational HealthQuestioning the Myths From: Sick and Tired |
The Myth of the Uneducated Immigrants The Myth of the Unhealthy Immigrants The Myth of the Unsafe Immigrants From Careless Workers to Vulnerable Workers Conclusions | Stephanie Premji | 12 | 2018 | $1.20 Add |
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From IntroductionCauses and Expressions of Inequalities From: Sick and Tired |
Stephanie Premji | 7 | 2018 | $0.70 Add | |
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From NEW! Just-in-Time Workers for Just-in-Time Distribution |
This chapter focuses on how the rise of just-in-time distribution, a sector of growing importance to global capitalism, has been fuelled with the rise of just-in-time employment — meaning a … | Mostafa Henaway | 11 | 2023 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Just TransitionFrom: Getting to Zero |
Discusses how the shift away from carbon-heavy industries should and could be done in a socially just way to ensure workers in sunset industries, Indigenous People, and immigrants will not be … | Tony Clarke | 30 | 2018 | $3.00 Add |
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From NEW! Keeping Global Capitalism Afloat |
This chapter examines how remittances play a crucial role within global capitalism. Remittances reinforce a pattern of migration from the Global South to the North, increasingly necessary for … | Mostafa Henaway | 9 | 2023 | $0.90 Add |
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From NEW! Managing Migration |
This chapter examines how, since 2006, Canada has constructed an immigration regime that centres temporary migrant labour — the ideal immigration regime in service of global capitalism. … | Mostafa Henaway | 13 | 2023 | $1.30 Add |
