Labour Studies
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 NEW! Making Sense of SocietyPower and Possibility |
Grounded in the sister disciplines of sociology and anthropology, this textbook is an accessible and critical introduction to contemporary social research. Alex Khasnabish eschews the common … | 273 | View | ||
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From Making SocietyBringing the World into Being From: Making Sense of Society |
In Chapter 3, Khasnabish examines social order as a complex amalgamation of material practices, relationships, institutions, and ideologies which create a society. In a very real sense, each of … | Alex Khasnabish | 26 | 2022 | $2.60 Add |
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From  Malcolm Gladwell in Conversation with Rudyard GriffithsApril 9, 2020 From: The World After Covid |
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 |
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From  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. Canada’s … | Mostafa Henaway | 13 | 2023 | $1.30 Add |
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From  Manchester to MumbaiFrom: Fixing Fashion |
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 |
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From  Marx, Feminism, and the Construction of the CommonsFrom: Patriarchy of the Wage |
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 |
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From  May 2020: COVID-19 Hits Food Processing IndustriesFrom: Spin Doctors |
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 |
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From Migrant Organizing on the New Fault Lines of Global Capitalism |
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 |
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From Migrant Workers Fight for the Entire Working Class |
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 |
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From  NEW! Mike Harris and the "Common Sense" CounterrevolutionFrom: Class Action |
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 |
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From  Motherhood and the Job MarketThe Dominion of Discrimination |
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 SexismA Plea for Parental Equality |
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 |
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From  Moving ForwardFrom: Changing Tides |
Barbara Neis; Christina Maneschy; Marian Binkley; Siri Gerrard | 13 | 2005 | $1.30 Add | |
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From  Mythbusting |
This chapter debunks a variety of myths surrounding basic income | Evelyn L. Forget | 30 | 2020 | $3.00 Add |
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From Neoliberal Migration Takes Hold |
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 |
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From New Forms of Organizing |
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 |
