Labour Studies

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Living Together Family, Kinship, and Social Bonds From: Making Sense of Society View Fernwood Publishing	In Chapter 5, Khasnabish examines the concept of the family– its structures and relations. Few other concepts carry as much weight in terms of signifying relations of mutual obligation, …	Alex Khasnabish	25	2022	$2.50 Add
From Looking Forward – Why Reinvent the Movement? From: Canadian Labour in Crisis View Fernwood Publishing		David Camfield	19	2011	$3.80 Add
From Looking the dragon in the face From: Bent out of Shape View Between The Lines		Karen Messing	31	2021	$3.10 Add
From Magic Words From: We Have Received a Complaint View Sutherland House	In this chapter, Malone examines how specific legal phrases in workplace complaints—termed "magic words"—compel formal investigations that may be disproportionate to the …	Matt Malone	17	2023	$1.70 Add
From Make it Clean Through Creative Work From: Rock Paper Sex View Breakwater Books	The firsthand account of a sex worker in St. John’s named Megan. An account of a sex worker’s professional practices as well as a discussion about the potential positive impact that …	Keri Cull	5	2017	$0.50 Add
From Making a Living Economies and Ecologies From: Making Sense of Society View Fernwood Publishing	In Chapter 7, Khasnabish explores the diverse bundle of human activity that we often refer to as “economic activity,” which he refers to as “making a living.” The chapter focuses on exploring the …	Alex Khasnabish	34	2022	$3.40 Add
From Making Immigrant Workers From: Fight Back View Fernwood Publishing		Aziz Choudry; Eric Shragge; Jill Hanley; Martha Stiegman; Steve Jordan	12	2009	$1.20 Add
From Making Meaning, Making Sense Communication and Belief From: Making Sense of Society View Fernwood Publishing	In Chapter 6, Khasnabish explores some of the critical elements in our collective capacity to make sense out of the world. The chapter focuses on the use of language, and discusses topics …	Alex Khasnabish	27	2022	$2.70 Add
NEW! Making Sense of Society Power 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
From Making Society Bringing the World into Being From: Making Sense of Society View Fernwood Publishing	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
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. …	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