Labour Studies

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Malcolm Gladwell in Conversation with Rudyard Griffiths April 9, 2020 From: The World After Covid View House of Anansi Press	Malcolm Gladwell and Rudyard Griffiths discuss Covid-19 and America’s response to it. Topics include social inequality, health care, ethics, human social behaviours, climate change, and …	Rudyard Griffiths	11	2021	$1.10 Add
From Managing Migration From: Essential Work Disposable Workers View Fernwood Publishing	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. Canada’s …	Mostafa Henaway	13	2023	$1.30 Add
From Manchester to Mumbai From: Fixing Fashion View New Society Publishers	In Manchester to Mumbai, the author explains his path to the fashion industry before delving into the following topics: the roots of global trade; labor, guilds and slavery; the India trade and …	Michael Lavergne	22	2015	$2.20 Add
From Marx, Feminism, and the Construction of the Commons From: Patriarchy of the Wage View Between The Lines	This chapter asks: What tools, principles, and ideas can Marxism bring to feminist theory and politics in our time? Can we think today of a relation between Marxism and feminism other than the …	Silvia Federici	25	2021	$2.50 Add
From May 2020: COVID-19 Hits Food Processing Industries From: Spin Doctors View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter covers how Covid-19 impacted food processing industries. Loreto examines how the workers in grocery stores, factories, and plants were "hailed as frontline heroes and treated as …	Nora Loreto	21	2021	$2.10 Add
From Migrant Organizing on the New Fault Lines of Global Capitalism From: Essential Work Disposable Workers View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter illustrates how new unions and worker centres emerged to successfully organize in global cities like Toronto, New York and London and within the chokepoints of logistics hubs for …	Mostafa Henaway	14	2023	$1.40 Add
From Migrant Workers Fight for the Entire Working Class From: Essential Work Disposable Workers View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter is about how migrant and racialized worker organizations took leadership in broad-based campaigns to improve conditions for the entire working class. As one example, the chapter …	Mostafa Henaway	12	2023	$1.20 Add
From NEW! Mike Harris and the "Common Sense" Counterrevolution From: Class Action View Between The Lines	In Mike Harris and the “Common Sense” Counterrevolution Hanson explores the distinctly neo-liberal turn education took after the NDP left office in Ontario and the rise of …	Andy Hanson	23	2021	$2.30 Add
From Motherhood and the Job Market The Dominion of Discrimination From: Motherhood, The Mother of All Sexism View Baraka Books	This chapter begins to outline the systemic discrimination, wage loss, and job insecurity that women/mothers face in Quebec and beyond, drawing on multiple examples. It critiques the Quebec …	Marilyse Hamelin	21	2018	$2.10 Add
Motherhood, The Mother of All Sexism A Plea for Parental Equality Baraka Books	Quebec spoils its families, according to some, with those “long” parental leaves—a full year for mothers (Imagine!)—well-subsidized childcare and more. Marilyse Hamelin …	Marilyse Hamelin	180	2018	View
From Moving Forward From: Changing Tides View Fernwood Publishing		Barbara Neis; Christina Maneschy; Marian Binkley; Siri Gerrard	13	2005	$1.30 Add
From Mythbusting From: Basic Income For Canadians View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter debunks a variety of myths surrounding basic income	Evelyn L. Forget	30	2020	$3.00 Add
From Neoliberal Migration Takes Hold From: Essential Work Disposable Workers View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter focuses on four countries in the Global South to illustrate how the implementation of neoliberal policies has not led to development but has turned them into major labour-exporting …	Mostafa Henaway	15	2023	$1.50 Add
From New Forms of Organizing From: Essential Work Disposable Workers View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter describes how worker centres emerged as a new model of organizing migrant workers in response to the sweeping global economic transformations of neoliberalism, described in the first …	Mostafa Henaway	19	2023	$1.90 Add
From NEW! New France A Frustrated Fiefdom, 1627-1763 From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter reviews the establishment of a colony in Quebec and its governance under the Company of New France and the effects of war. It highlights experiences of such populations as women, …	Bryan D. Palmer	15	2024	$1.50 Add
From No One Knows Who to Trust From: Rock Paper Sex, Volume II View Breakwater Books	In this chapter, the author interviews an Indigenous, female-identified sex worker who was featured in the first volume. This individual now has a regular day job, and engages in sex work four or …	Kerri Cull	4	2021	$0.40 Add