Labour Studies
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From  Understanding Unions |
- | Errol Black; Jim Silver; Larry Savage; Stephanie Ross | 13 | 2004 | $1.30 Add |
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From  Wages against Housework1975 From: Revolution at Point Zero |
The essays in part 1 of the book explore the theoretical foundations of the politicization of housework. These essays explore the wages against housework movement, the transactional nature of … | Silvia Federici | 8 | 2020 | $0.80 Add |
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From  NEW! Why Care About Prisoners’ Labour Rights?From: Solidarity Beyond Bars |
Chapter One focuses on providing a broad overview of the Canadian prison system. The chapter explains why people should care about prisoners’ rights and specifically prisoners’ labour … | Asaf Rashid; Jordan House | 32 | 2022 | $3.20 Add |
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From  A Good Dose of Materialism Helps a Bad Case of AffluenzaFrom: Curing Affluenza |
Chapter 2 examines our current culture of convenience, discussing topics including consuming and producing, credit cards and credit card debt, consumerism (the love of buying things) verses … | Richard Denniss | 27 | 2018 | $2.70 Add |
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From  NEW! A Good Idea Goes Viral |
This chapter highlights the disparate impacts of COVID-19 on low-wage "essential" workers, racialized populations, and women; the pandemic revealed that many Canadians suffer from … | Dr. Danielle Martin; Elaine Power; Jamie Swift | 30 | 2021 | $3.00 Add |
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From  A Textile Industry for New EnglandSECTION ONE - From ships’ captains to captains of industry From: A Distinct Alien Race |
This chapter looks at the global economy and textile industry in different contexts at the beginning of the 19th century, then focuses on Boston specifically. It then looks at "Mill … | David Vermette | 15 | 2018 | $1.50 Add |
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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  Are Millennials Being Stiffed?Work and Mental Health in a Neoliberal World From: Sick and Tired |
The Millennial Labour Market The Mental Health of Millennials Sources of Data Millennial Employment The Health of Millennials Conclusion | Jeffrey Martin; Wayne Lewchuck | 17 | 2018 | $1.70 Add |
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From  Business Control in a Working Class TownFrom: Their Town |
Examines how local government is structured and explains how business interests have managed to capture and hold political power in what is basically a working class town. | Bill Freeman | 10 | 2016 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Business Unionism and Social Unionism in Theory and Practice |
Recognizing the coexistence of historicized ideal types of both “business unionism” and “social unionism” in the labour movement in general, and specifically within unions … | Stephanie Ross | 18 | 2021 | $1.80 Add |
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From  Canadian Experiments with Basic Income |
This chapter provides brief overviews of limited-scale experiments with basic income across Canada, how they were implemented and their results. | Evelyn L. Forget | 23 | 2020 | $2.30 Add |
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From  Capital and the LeftFrom: Patriarchy of the Wage |
This chapter focuses on the past and future of the feminist movement, divisions in this movement, and the connection between feminism and socialism. | Silvia Federici | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
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From  Casual Labour and the History of Women’s Work |
- | Dave Broad | 11 | 2000 | $2.09 Add |
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From  NEW! Change for Good HistoryChapter 2 From: Change for Good |
Chapter 2 explores the motivations businesses have in social policy and philanthropy. The chapter explores topics including Quaker capitalism, the Trump presidency, the origins of the … | Paul Klein | 22 | 2022 | $2.20 Add |
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From  Chapter 1The Craftworkers' Challenge |
This chapter traces the rise of working-class organizing in mid nineteenth-century Canada in the context of Canada’s First Industrial Revolution, moving from informal protests to narrowly … | Charles Smith; Craig Heron | 27 | 2020 | $2.70 Add |
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From  Chapter 2Growing From: Farm the City |
This lengthy and comprehensive chapter about growing covers all practical aspects of growing food in urban, paved or contaminated environments including the infrastructure, such as greenhouses … | Michael Ableman | 56 | 2020 | $5.60 Add |
