Labour Studies
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From  Seeing the Bigger Picture |
Noeline Bridge recounts the story of Dennis. The story discusses his working life, challenges, unions, and more. | Noeline Bridge | 4 | 2009 | $0.40 Add |
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From  Setting the Stage |
In this chapter, Leah traces the transformation of Canadian auto industry labour organizing from 1934 to the 1937 General Motors strike in Oshawa, Ontario. | Tony Leah | 27 | 2024 | $2.70 Add |
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From  NEW! Sex Worker Justice—by Us, for UsToronto Sex Workers Resisting Carceral Violence |
In Sex Worker Justice—by Us, for Us authors Ellie Ade Kur and Jenny Duffy on behalf of Maggie’s Toronto Sex Workers Action project explore how sex workers in Toronto are resisting … | Ellie Ade Kur; Jenny Duffy | 17 | 2022 | $1.70 Add |
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From  Shame and silence in health careFrom: Bent out of Shape |
Karen Messing | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add | |
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From  Sharing Parental Leave– A Radical Step? |
Quebec is a trailblazer in North America when it comes to paternity leave, borrowing from a tried-and-true template popular in Scandinavian nations; however, fathers in Quebec are more hesitant … | Marilyse Hamelin | 30 | 2018 | $3.00 Add |
 Shift ChangeScenes from a Post-industrial Revolution |
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 TiredHealth and Safety Inequalities |
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 … | 203 | View | ||
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From  NEW! Silence, MemoryFrom: Wanda’s War |
Chapter 13 examines the individual trips Wanda and Casey took to Poland during the 1970’s. The chapter reflects on Wanda and Casey’s life and experiences of exile and trauma after the … | Marsha Faubert | 12 | 2023 | $1.20 Add |
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From Slogging towards TomorrowFrom: Shift Change |
This chapter examines the activities of the Hamilton Roundtable and other similar institutions, which sought to bridge the gaps between government, the non-profit sector, business, churches, and … | Stephen Dale | 48 | 2021 | $4.80 Add |
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From  SloshedFrom: Rock Paper Sex |
This chapter covers the perspectives of a few women who work as bartenders in strip clubs in St. John’s Newfoundland. A discussion of the policies and etiquette at strip clubs as well as … | Keri Cull | 4 | 2017 | $0.40 Add |
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From  So What’s Stopping You?From: Curing Affluenza |
Chapter 9 concludes with a call to action, discussing topics including democratic reform and citizen influence, Neoliberalism, communal goals and future cultural changes. | Richard Denniss | 18 | 2018 | $1.80 Add |
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From Soaring |
Afiena Kamminga recounts the story of Cathy. The chapter discusses her difficulty learning, her dyslexia, her time learning with CALP, and more. | Afiena Kamminga | 3 | 2009 | $0.30 Add |
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From  NEW! Social Democracy and LabourFrom: The Fire and the Ashes |
In this chapter, the author discusses the conditions and circumstances that labour movements faced during his career. Topics include the rise of student activism, the culture wars of the 1970s, … | Andrew Jackson | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
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From  NEW! Social Democracy in a Neo-Liberal EraFrom: Class Action |
In Social Democracy in a Neo-liberal Era Hanson explores how conditions changed, or failed to change, after the election of Ontario’s first NDP premier. The chapter discusses topics such … | Andy Hanson | 20 | 2021 | $2.00 Add |
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From SolidarityFrom: Bent out of Shape |
Karen Messing | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add | |
 NEW! Solidarity Beyond BarsUnionizing Prison Labour |
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 … | 180 | View |
