Labour Studies
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From  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  Kara Swisher in Conversation with Rudyard GriffithsMay 13, 2020 From: The World After Covid |
Kara Swisher and Rudyard Griffiths discuss Covid-19 and the role of big tech Silicon Valley in our society. Topics include the growing impact of technology on every aspect of our world, state … | Rudyard Griffiths | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
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From 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  Keeping on Track: Performance Indicators for a Better SocietyFrom: Curing Affluenza |
Chapter 6 explores the indicators of a better society, discussing topics including gross domestic product (GDP), economic growth, child literacy and health, and protections. It includes an … | Richard Denniss | 25 | 2018 | $2.50 Add |
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From  Keynes ReduxHistory Catches Up From: Bankrupticies & Bailouts |
Radhika Desai | 22 | 2009 | $2.20 Add | |
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From  Kicking was the Whole PointFrom: Rock Paper Sex |
The firsthand account of a young sex worker in St. Johns Newfoundland named Lori. The chapter includes a discussion of the factors that lead an individual to becoming a sex worker and includes … | Keri Cull | 8 | 2017 | $0.80 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  Labour RightsA Democratic Counterweight to Growing Income Inequality in Canada |
Discusses labour rights as a counterweight to growing income inequality in Canada, focusing on the use of Fraser an attempt to roll back BC Health Services, the role of the Charter of Rights and … | Derek Fudge | 27 | 2012 | $2.70 Add |
 Labour Under AttackAnti-Unionism in Canada |
This multi-disciplinary edited collection critically examines the causes and effects of anti-unionism in Canada. Primarily through a series of case studies, the book’s contributors document … | 150 | 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 |
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From  NEW! Last Word |
This reading consists of the following essays: Walter Rodney’s Last Writing on and for the Guyanese Working People [2010] | Alissa Trotz; Andaiye | 8 | 2020 | $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 |
