Labour Studies
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From ![]() NEW! Inequality at the top |
In this chapter, the author examines the implications of strong income growth at the very top of the income distribution scale in Canada. | Lars Osberg | 34 | 2024 | $3.40 Add |
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From ![]() Inequality from the Bottom Up |
As average incomes increase in a society, many cheap goods become unavailable and the cost of living for poor people rises. Although different poverty line methodologies produce somewhat … | Lars Osberg | 23 | 2018 | $2.30 Add |
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From ![]() Inequality of Wealth |
The inequality of wealth in Canada is far greater than the inequality of incomes — Canada’s top 40 families own more than the bottom 40% (6,186,000 households) do. For middle class … | Lars Osberg | 23 | 2018 | $2.30 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Inequality of wealth |
In this chapter, the author presents data on inequalities of wealth before the Covid-19 pandemic and outlines how the inequality of wealth and economic power increased in Canada throughout the … | Lars Osberg | 30 | 2024 | $3.00 Add |
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From ![]() Inequality, The Profit System and Global CrisisFrom: Bankrupticies & Bailouts |
David McNally | 14 | 2009 | $1.40 Add | |
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From ![]() NEW! Injury, Illness and DeathFrom: Solidarity Beyond Bars |
Chapter Three covers the subject of health and safety in Canadian prisons as it relates to general prison conditions and work. The chapter discusses how prisoners are excluded from health and … | Asaf Rashid; Jordan House | 20 | 2022 | $2.00 Add |
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From ![]() Inside the Unions: Organizational Life |
David Camfield | 13 | 2011 | $2.60 Add | |
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From ![]() Inspiring Re-Generation of Farming: NFU YouthFrom: Frontline Farmers |
The tenth chapter looks at young farmers, the generational decline in farming, and the barriers preventing younger farmers from accessing land and farming. Interviews are with Ayla Fenton, Matt … | Terran Giacomini | 17 | 2019 | $1.70 Add |
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From ![]() International Trade Agreements and the Ontario Green Energy ActOpportunities and Obstacles From: Climate@Work |
John Shields; Stephen McBride | 16 | 2013 | $1.60 Add | |
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From ![]() NEW! Into a New Century, 2000-09From: Leading Progess |
This chapter describes how the PIPSC dealt with issues in the first decade of the 2000s, including Y2K and the globalization of computer systems, the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the Canadian war … | Jason Russell | 29 | 2020 | $2.90 Add |
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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 ![]() IntroductionCauses and Expressions of Inequalities From: Sick and Tired |
Stephanie Premji | 7 | 2018 | $0.70 Add | |
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From ![]() Introduction |
The history of economic inequality in Canada and briefly touches on the other forms of inequality that exist in Canada which would persist even if economic inequality was eliminated. Briefly … | Lars Osberg | 18 | 2018 | $1.80 Add |
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From ![]() IntroductionFrom: The Power Manual |
Why do power relations matter in social change, or for any of us who care about living the best life we can live? Because we have to be clear about the type of power we seek. We need power to … | Cyndi Suarez | 4 | 2018 | $0.40 Add |
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From ![]() Introduction |
Author Craig Heron introduces the reader to the broad outlines of economic and social development in Canada that helped to shape the Canadian labour movement since the mid-nineteenth century. It … | Charles Smith; Craig Heron | 14 | 2020 | $1.40 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 |
















