Labour Studies

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Poverty and Inequality
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Poverty and Inequality

From: The Scandalous Rise of Inequality in Canada

In this chapter, the author details how incomes at the bottom of the income distribution scale have dramatically eroded in Canada in recent years. 29 $2.90 Add
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Power and Order

Power and Order

Inequality, Injustice, and Paths Beyond

From: Making Sense of Society

In Chapter 8, Khasnabish concludes the book by taking a critical look at the way our social relations and institutions are structured and how they are deeply shaped by prevailing power dynamics. … 24 $2.40 Add
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Powerless and Powerful Identities

Powerless and Powerful Identities

Hegemony and Supreme Power

From: The Power Manual

Powerless and Powerful Identities, explores the space between Gramsci’s hegemony, the idea that the very acceptance of power as dominance renders one powerless, and the philosophy of … 11 $1.10 Add
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Precarious Employment and Occupational Health and Safety in Ontario

Precarious Employment and Occupational Health and Safety in Ontario

From: Boom, Bust and Crisis

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Precarious Work Requires Precarious Workers

Precarious Work Requires Precarious Workers

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

This chapter specifically follows the rise of temporary placement agencies as a tool of employers to utilize undocumented, precarious and racialized migrants for capital. The shift from … 12 $1.20 Add
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Preface

Preface

From: Haircuts by Children and Other Evidence for a New Social Contract

The author explains how he came to see the vital role of working with children in his life, after the first performances of the play Haircuts by Children, and how he hopes to inspire others to … 2 $0.20 Add
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Preface

Preface

From: Bent out of Shape

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Preface

Preface

From: Breaking the Word Barrier

Preface by authors Marilyn Lerch and Peter Sawyer. ; 2 $0.20 Add
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Preface

Preface

From: Curing Affluenza

The preface from author Richard Denniss. 5 $0.50 Add
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Prefaces to the Fourth, First and Second Editions

Prefaces to the Fourth, First and Second Editions

From: The Canadian Labour Movement

The prefaces to the fourth, first and second editions of this book outline the changes the various editions have seen and to what degree. ; 2 $0.20 Add
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Protecting Seeds

Protecting Seeds

From: Frontline Farmers

The fourth chapter looks at farmers’ right to save seeds, and how corporate consolidation in agriculture erodes this right, an integral part of food sovereignty. Interviews are with Terry … 19 $1.90 Add
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Protest’s Changing Contours, 1960–2000: Class  Struggles and Indigenous  Oppositions
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Protest’s Changing Contours, 1960–2000: Class Struggles and Indigenous Oppositions

From: Capitalism, Colonialism, and Crises

This chapter provides an overview of the resistance to capitalism and its practices from Indigenous peoples, workers, students and others during the period 1960-2000. Palmer describes how 1960s … 9 $0.90 Add
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Proud to be a Fishworker

Proud to be a Fishworker

From: Changing Tides

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Putting Feminism Back on its Feet

Putting Feminism Back on its Feet

1984

From: Revolution at Point Zero

The essays in part 1 of the book explore the theoretical foundations of the politicization of housework. These essays explore the wages against housework movement, the transactional nature of … 9 $0.90 Add