Labour Studies

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Rock Paper Sex, Volume II Trigger Warning Breakwater Books	From working through the pandemic to Black Lives Matter, Rock Paper Sex, Volume II: Trigger Warning is timely, controversial, and provocative. This sequel offers a wide range of stories from the …	Kerri Cull	240	2021	View
Shift Change Scenes from a Post-industrial Revolution Between The Lines	Hamilton’s industrial age is over. In the steel capital of Canada, there are no more skies lit red by foundries at sunset, no more traffic jams at shift change. Instead, an urban …	Stephen Dale	252	2021	View
Sick and Tired Health and Safety Inequalities Fernwood Publishing	Bringing together a multidisciplinary group of experts from the fields of labour studies, public health, ergonomics, epidemiology, sociology and law, Sick and Tired examines the …	Stephanie Premji	203	2018	View
NEW! Solidarity Beyond Bars Unionizing Prison Labour Fernwood Publishing	Prisons don’t work, but prisoners do. Prisons are often critiqued as unjust, but we hear little about the daily labour of incarcerated workers — what they do, how they do it, who they …	Asaf Rashid; Jordan House	180	2022	View
Somebodies and Nobodies Overcoming the Abuse of Rank New Society Publishers	In the ongoing attempts to overcome racism and sexism in North America today, we are overlooking another kind of discrimination that is no less damaging and equally unjustifiable. It is a form of …	Robert W. Fuller	208	2004	View
NEW! Testimonio Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala Between The Lines	What is land? A resource to be exploited? A commodity to be traded? A home to cherish? In Guatemala, a country still reeling from thirty-six years of US-backed state repression and genocides, …	Catherine Nolin; Grahame Russell	268	2021	View
The Age of Increasing Inequality The Astonishing Rise of Canada's 1% James Lorimer and Company	For 35 years, Canada has become vastly wealthier, but most people have not. This book documents the dramatic and rapid growth in inequality. It identifies the causes. It proposes meaningful steps …	Lars Osberg	248	2018	View
The Canadian Labour Movement A Short History James Lorimer and Company	The Canadian Labour Movement tells the story of Canada’s workers since the mid-nineteenth century, painting a vivid picture of key developments, such as the birth of craft unionism, the …	Charles Smith; Craig Heron	240	2020	View
The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History Third Edition James Lorimer and Company	In The Canadian Labour Movement, historian Craig Heron tells the story of Canada’s workers from the mid-nineteenth century through to today, painting a vivid picture of key developments …	Craig Heron	252	2012	View
NEW! The Case for Basic Income Freedom, Security, Justice Between The Lines	Inequality is up. Decent work is down. Free market fundamentalism has been exposed as a tragic failure. In a job market upended by COVID-19—with Canadians caught in the grip of precarious …	Dr. Danielle Martin; Elaine Power; Jamie Swift	264	2021	View
NEW! The Fire and the Ashes Rekindling Democratic Socialism Between The Lines	In The Fire and the Ashes, long-time union economist and policy analyst Andrew Jackson looks back on a fascinating career in the labour movement, the NDP, and left politics, combining keen …	Andrew Jackson	180	2021	View
The Point is To Change the World Selected Writings of Andaiye Between The Lines	Radical activist, thinker, and comrade of Walter Rodney, Andaiye was one of the Caribbean’s most important political voices. For the first time, her writings are published in one collection. …	Alissa Trotz; Andaiye	320	2020	View
The Power Manual How to Master Complex Power Dynamics New Society Publishers	Liberate yourself by understanding and mastering power dynamics All social relations are laden with power. Getting out from under dominant power relations and mastering power dynamics is perhaps …	Cyndi Suarez	195	2018	View
NEW! The Tenant Class Between The Lines	In this trailblazing manifesto, political economist Ricardo Tranjan places tenants and landlords on either side of the class divide that splits North American society. What if there is no housing …	Ricardo Tranjan	145	2023	View
NEW! This Has Always Been a War The Radicalization of a Working-Class Queer Arsenal Pulp Press	A powerful, personal critique of capitalist patriarchy as seen through the eyes of a queer radical. Capitalism has infiltrated every aspect of our personal, social, economic, and sexual lives. By …	Lori Fox	321	2022	View
Through the Mill Girls and Women in the Quebec Cotton Textile Industry, 1881-1951 Baraka Books	Girls and women were essential to industrialization in Canada, particularly in the cotton textile industry, which was concentrated in Quebec. In 1891, for example, more than 2000 girls and women …	Gail Cuthbert Brandt	324	2018	View