Labour Studies
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From ![]() PART 1 – Fighting BackWorkplace Activism From: Through the Mill |
This chapter looks at workplace activism and labour groups, and how women were treated by and excluded from these groups. It looks at the demographics of female workers and intersecting … | Gail Cuthbert Brandt | 32 | 2018 | $3.20 Add |
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From ![]() PART 1 – Mill LifeFrom: Through the Mill |
This chapter explores the reality of those who worked in the mills. It covers child labour, the hours for workers, wages, workplace safety, and the issue of abusive foremen for female workers. | Gail Cuthbert Brandt | 32 | 2018 | $3.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Part 2A Migrant Farm Worker From: Harvesting Freedom |
Part 2 discusses Gabriel Allahdua’s time working in a greenhouse in Leamington, Ontario, the "migrant farm worker capital of Canada", including the intense workplace conditions, … | Edward Dunsworth; Gabriel Allahdua | 61 | 2023 | $6.10 Add |
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From ![]() PART 2 – Dominating the Canadian Cotton IndustryFrom: Through the Mill |
This chapter explores the cotton textile industry’s evolution after the first world war, and specifically women’s experiences during this period. It covers the experiences of families … | Gail Cuthbert Brandt | 47 | 2018 | $4.70 Add |
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From ![]() PART 2 – New Technologies, Old ProblemsWorking Conditions and Wages From: Through the Mill |
This chapter explores the working conditions and wages throughout the 20th century for workers in the Quebec cotton textile industry. It looks at child labour, hours, working conditions, wages, … | Gail Cuthbert Brandt | 51 | 2018 | $5.10 Add |
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From ![]() PART 2 – Struggling for Change in a Man’s WorldFrom: Through the Mill |
This chapter explores evolutions in the labour movement and the involvement and experiences of women in this movement throughout the 20th century. It looks at the experiences of working class … | Gail Cuthbert Brandt | 62 | 2018 | $6.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Part 3Status for All From: Harvesting Freedom |
Part 3 details Gabriel Allahdua’s activist work against the injustices that migrant workers experience in Canada. Part 3 also explained Allahdua’s process of leaving the program and … | Edward Dunsworth; Gabriel Allahdua | 37 | 2023 | $3.70 Add |
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From ![]() Part 3: Exercises, Games, and Further Rabble RousingLearning about Wealth Inequality through Video Games From: Roles of Resistance |
This section presents a lesson plan that teaches about the wealth inequality and its effect on social life. It includes required materials, step-by-step instructions, and guiding discussion questions. | John-Henry Harter; Mark Leier | 6 | 2024 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Part FourTowards Strengthening the Movement |
This reading consists of the following essays: Gender, Race, and Class: A Perspective on the Contemporary Caribbean Struggle [2009] | Alissa Trotz; Andaiye | 25 | 2020 | $2.50 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Part One: Section IThe Good and Bad of Some Earlier Feminist and Left Organizing in the Region |
This reading consists of the following essays: The Angle You Look from Determines What You See: Towards a Critique of Feminist Politics and Organizing in the Caribbean [2002] – The Historic … | Alissa Trotz; Andaiye | 55 | 2020 | $5.50 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Part One: Section IINotes on the Guyana Indian/African Race Divide, and on Organizing within and against it |
This reading consists of the following essays: 1964: The Rupture of Neighborliness and its Legacy for Indian/African Relations [2008; 2018] (with D. Alissa Trotz) – Organizing within and … | Alissa Trotz; Andaiye | 46 | 2020 | $4.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Part Three: Section IMy Breast and Yours, and the Inequalities of Power |
This reading consists of the following essays: The War on Cancer as Seen by an Embattled Survivor [2017/2018] – Sister Survivor: For Audre Lorde [1992] | Alissa Trotz; Andaiye | 15 | 2020 | $1.50 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Part Three: Section IIWomen and Depression: Auto/biographies |
This reading consists of the following essays: Asylum: Diary of the Last Seven Days in a Women’s Psychiatric Ward [c.1973] – M: A Daughter’s Tale [c.1982] | Alissa Trotz; Andaiye | 10 | 2020 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Part Three: Section IIIUndomesticating Violence |
This reading consists of the following essays: Against the Beating of Children: Submission to a Parliamentary Sub-committee on the Corporal Punishment of Children [2013] – Three Letters … | Alissa Trotz; Andaiye | 28 | 2020 | $2.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Part Two: Section IWhy and How to Count Unwaged Work |
This reading consists of the following essays: Valuing Unwaged Work: A Preparatory Brief for CARICOM Ministers Responsible for Women’s Affairs Attending the 4th World Conference on Women … | Alissa Trotz; Andaiye | 17 | 2020 | $1.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Part Two: Section IIBreaking the Frontier between Home and Street, Unwaged and Waged |
This reading consists of the following essays: Strike for a Millennium which Values all Women’s Work and all Women’s Lives: A Call to Action [2000] – The Impact of the IMF … | Alissa Trotz; Andaiye | 40 | 2020 | $4.00 Add |







