Labour Studies
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From  NEW! “What is a Jungle?” |
This chapter traces the mid- to late- 1950s struggle of Italian-Canadian workers to organize in Toronto’s residential building trades. Through the stories of Bruno Zanini, Charles Irvine, … | Gilberto Fernandes | 8 | 2026 | $0.80 Add |
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From  What is a Union? |
Errol Black; Jim Silver; Larry Savage; Stephanie Ross | 5 | 2004 | $0.50 Add | |
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From  NEW! What is Public Safety?From: Razing Palestine |
In this chapter, Grzejszczak examines the tension between public safety and political speech through the story of Leila Marshy, a York Region paramedic terminated in June 2025 after defending a … | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add | |
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From  What to Do? |
Policy proposals to address increasing inequality in Canada. A Carbon Fee and Dividend could both reduce cardon diozide emissions and lessen inequality. As robots increasingly make the robots … | Lars Osberg | 30 | 2018 | $3.00 Add |
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From  NEW! What to do? |
In this chapter, the author examines various courses of action and policies that could be taken to address economic inequality in Canada. | Lars Osberg | 35 | 2024 | $3.50 Add |
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From What’s Been Happening to Canada’s Middle Class? |
Historically, Canada’s middle class has expected increasing prosperity from one generation to the next. Real hourly wages did grow strongly until 1981, when inflation control became the … | Lars Osberg | 29 | 2018 | $2.90 Add |
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From NEW! What’s been happening to Canada’s middle class? |
In this chapter the author looks at the stagnation of middle class incomes in Canada over the past few decades. | Lars Osberg | 31 | 2024 | $3.10 Add |
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From  When Sisters Become CompetitorsCoastal Women's Innovative Utilization of Trawler By-Catch in Ghana From: Changing Tides |
Ragnhild Overa | 16 | 2005 | $1.60 Add | |
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From NEW! “When the Thaw Comes” |
The Hogg’s Hollow tunnel disaster of March 17, 1960, in Toronto became a rallying point for exposing the exploitation of Italian immigrant construction workers. Frank Drea’s bold … | Gilberto Fernandes | 9 | 2026 | $0.90 Add |
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From  NEW! Where the Fuck Are We in Your Dystopia? |
In “Where the Fuck Are We in Your Dystopia?” the author explores their love and issues with the genre of feminist dystopian fiction. Discussing gender roles, the #MeToo movement, … | Lori Fox | 24 | 2022 | $2.40 Add |
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From  Which Side Are You On?Between Yellow Vests and Migrant Rights in the New Saskatchewan From: Divided |
This chapter highlights how policy makers responded to public cases of foreign worker exploitation and took seriously the state of precarity that defines migrant labour. | Andrew Stevens | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
 NEW! White RiotThe 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver |
White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver explores the conditions leading up to and the impact of a demonstration and parade in Vancouver, Canada, organized by the Asiatic Exclusion … | Henry Tsang | 192 | 2023 | View |
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From  Whither the Quebec Model?From: Boom, Bust and Crisis |
John Peters | 17 | 2012 | $2.55 Add | |
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From  Who Are We?Identity and Intersections From: Making Sense of Society |
In Chapter 4, Khasnabish digs into the power-laden process of identification as a collective rather than individual phenomenon. In this chapter, topics include: an examination of how a society’s … | Alex Khasnabish | 25 | 2022 | $2.50 Add |
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From Who Belongs to Unions? Who Doesn’t and Why? |
Errol Black; Jim Silver; Larry Savage; Stephanie Ross | 20 | 2004 | $2.00 Add | |
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From NEW! “Who Gets Nick’s Head” |
This chapter traces the concrete forming industry in Toronto during the mid-to-late 1960s, centring on Nick Di Lorenzo’s struggle to maintain dominance as rival contractors challenged his grip. | Gilberto Fernandes | 11 | 2026 | $1.10 Add |
