Labour Studies

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
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 NEW! Canadian Motordom in Depression and War From: Car Nation Canada View James Lorimer and Company	In this chapter, Anastakis covers the 1930s and the Second World War period. Topics include the auto and the 1930s Depression, war production by auto manufacturers, union organizing in the war …	Dimitry Anastakis	14	2026	$1.40 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
From NEW! Capital, the State, and the 1960s Appetite for Reform: From Conciliation to Containment From: Capitalism, Colonialism, and Crises View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter outlines Canadian political and economic history from 1945-1960s. Palmer describes how Liberal governments expanded welfare and the social safety net, and how labour unions expanded, …	Bryan D. Palmer	12	2026	$1.20 Add
NEW! Capitalism and Colonialism The Making of Modern Canada, 1890-1960	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 …		434		View
From NEW! Capitalism and Colonialism Unchecked: After the 2025 Election From: Capitalism, Colonialism, and Crises View James Lorimer and Company	In this chapter, Palmer outlines the key policies put in place by the Carney Liberals in 2025-26, including the turn away from labour, Indigenous communities and their rights, and environmental …	Bryan D. Palmer	25	2026	$2.50 Add
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
From Casual Labour and the History of Women’s Work From: Hollow Work, Hollow Society? View Fernwood Publishing		Dave Broad	11	2000	$2.09 Add
From NEW! Census Making and City Building: Data Perspectives on the 1907 Anti-Asian Riots and the Development of Vancouver From: White Riot View Arsenal Pulp Press	In this chapter, Yan provides critical context to understanding the 1907 anti-Asian riots in Vancouver. Yan discusses the anti-Asian racism and the unreliable data that led to an inflated number …	Andy Yan	18	2023	$1.80 Add
NEW! Change for Good An Action-Oriented Approach for Businesses to Benefit from Solving the World’s Most Urgent Social Problems ECW Press	An action-oriented approach for businesses to solve the world’s most urgent social problems — and benefit from doing so. More than a year into a global pandemic, profit and …	Paul Klein	274	2022	View