Labour Studies

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PART 1 - Fighting Back

PART 1 – Fighting Back

Workplace 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 … 32 $3.20 Add
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PART 1 - Mill Life

PART 1 – Mill Life

From: 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. 32 $3.20 Add
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PART 2 - Dominating the Canadian Cotton Industry

PART 2 – Dominating the Canadian Cotton Industry

From: 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 … 47 $4.70 Add
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PART 2 - New Technologies, Old Problems

PART 2 – New Technologies, Old Problems

Working 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, … 51 $5.10 Add
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PART 2 - Struggling for Change in a Man's World

PART 2 – Struggling for Change in a Man’s World

From: 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 … 62 $6.20 Add
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Part Four
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Part Four

Towards Strengthening the Movement

From: The Point is To Change the World

This reading consists of the following essays: Gender, Race, and Class: A Perspective on the Contemporary Caribbean Struggle [2009] ; 25 $2.50 Add
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Part One: Section I
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Part One: Section I

The Good and Bad of Some Earlier Feminist and Left Organizing in the Region

From: The Point is To Change the World

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 … ; 55 $5.50 Add
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Part One: Section II
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Part One: Section II

Notes on the Guyana Indian/African Race Divide, and on Organizing within and against it

From: The Point is To Change the World

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 … ; 46 $4.60 Add
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Part Three: Section I
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Part Three: Section I

My Breast and Yours, and the Inequalities of Power

From: The Point is To Change the World

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] ; 15 $1.50 Add
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Part Three: Section II
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Part Three: Section II

Women and Depression: Auto/biographies

From: The Point is To Change the World

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] ; 10 $1.00 Add
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Part Three: Section III
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Part Three: Section III

Undomesticating Violence

From: The Point is To Change the World

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 … ; 28 $2.80 Add
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Part Two: Section I
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Part Two: Section I

Why and How to Count Unwaged Work

From: The Point is To Change the World

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 … ; 17 $1.70 Add
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Part Two: Section II
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Part Two: Section II

Breaking the Frontier between Home and Street, Unwaged and Waged

From: The Point is To Change the World

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 … ; 40 $4.00 Add