Labour Studies

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Building a Better World Third Edition An Introduction to the Labour Movement in Canada	This third edition of Building a Better World offers a comprehensive introductory overview of Canada’s labour movement. The book includes an analysis of why workers form unions; assesses …		232		View
From Building Relationships: Indigenous-Settler Solidarity and the NFU From: Frontline Farmers View Fernwood Publishing	The last chapter considers the National Farmers Union’s work in building relationships of solidarity with Indigenous peoples of Canada. Interviews are with Maureen Bostock, Julie Enman, …	Lauren Kepkiewicz	20	2019	$2.00 Add
From Business Control in a Working Class Town From: Their Town View James Lorimer and Company	Examines how local government is structured and explains how business interests have managed to capture and hold political power in what is basically a working class town.	Bill Freeman	10	2016	$1.00 Add
From NEW! Call You by Your Name From: This Has Always Been a War View Arsenal Pulp Press	In “Call You by Your Name” the author delves into their relationship with Lucky. Discussing relationships, cheating, bush life, camp relationships, abuse, manipulation, sex, shame, …	Lori Fox	73	2022	$7.30 Add
From Can We Afford a Basic Income? From: Basic Income For Canadians View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter assesses the cost of basic income and whether it’s something we can realistically afford.	Evelyn L. Forget	28	2020	$2.80 Add
From Canada and the Crisis From: Bankrupticies & Bailouts View Fernwood Publishing		Fletcher Baragar	30	2009	$3.00 Add
From Canada’s Live-In Caregiver Program Popular among Both Employers and Migrants - But Structured for Dependency and Inequality From: Fight Back View Fernwood Publishing		Aziz Choudry; Eric Shragge; Jill Hanley; Martha Stiegman; Steve Jordan	21	2009	$2.10 Add
From A Union for Everyone From: A New Kind of Union View James Lorimer and Company	Describes the continued efforts of the CEP and the CAW to negotiate the New Union Project from 2012-2013. Analyzes debates over how the new union can represent Canadians from a wide variety of …	Fred Wilson	38	2019	$3.80 Add
From Canadian Experiments with Basic Income From: Basic Income For Canadians View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter provides brief overviews of limited-scale experiments with basic income across Canada, how they were implemented and their results.	Evelyn L. Forget	23	2020	$2.30 Add
From Canadian Income Inequality The Big Picture From: The Age of Increasing Inequality View Collection: Income Inequality in Canada: In Search of a Fairer Future James Lorimer and Company	Unbalanced growth and increasing income inequality since 1981 contrasts starkly with the balanced growth and stable income distribution of 1946 to 1981. Although total output per Canadian grew by …	Lars Osberg	20	2018	$2.00 Add
From NEW! Canadian income inequality The big picture From: The Scandalous Rise of Inequality in Canada View James Lorimer and Company	In this chapter the author provides a general overview of the growth of inequality in Canada over the past few decades.	Lars Osberg	21	2024	$2.10 Add
Canadian Labour in Crisis Reinventing the Workers' Movement Fernwood Publishing	Does Canada have a working-class movement? Though many of us think of ourselves as middle class, most of us are, in fact, working class: we work for a wage. And though many of us are members of …	David Camfield	108	2011	View
From Canadian Motordom in Depression and War From: Car Nation View James Lorimer and Company	1930-1945. Looks at the downturn for the auto industry during the Great Depression, the unionization of the industry, and the effect of WWII on the auto industry. Specifically uses the life of …	Dimitry Anastakis	17	2008	$1.70 Add
From Capital and the Left From: Patriarchy of the Wage View Between The Lines	This chapter focuses on the past and future of the feminist movement, divisions in this movement, and the connection between feminism and socialism.	Silvia Federici	7	2021	$0.70 Add
NEW! Capitalism and Colonialism The Making of Modern Canada, 1890-1960 James Lorimer and Company	This second volume of Bryan Palmer’s history of Canada covers 1890 to 1960, in which Palmer examines the continuing role of capitalism and colonialism in structuring Canadian society, from …	Bryan D. Palmer	434	2025	View
From NEW! Capitalist Confederated Canada The Emergence of Organized Labour and Class Conflict, 1870-90 From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter examines the tumult of the 1870s in Canada, including the Pacific Scandal of 1873, Indigenous resistance in the North-West and the global financial pandemic from 1873 to 1897, which …	Bryan D. Palmer	12	2024	$1.20 Add