Labour Studies

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Chapter 1 Planning From: Farm the City View New Society Publishers	The first chapter discusses the process of planning an urban farm. Topics include the importance of clear missions, the necessity of experiential and financial capital to starting successful …	Michael Ableman	13	2020	$1.30 Add
From Chapter 1 The Craftworkers' Challenge From: The Canadian Labour Movement View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter traces the rise of working-class organizing in mid nineteenth-century Canada in the context of Canada’s First Industrial Revolution, moving from informal protests to narrowly …	Charles Smith; Craig Heron	27	2020	$2.70 Add
From Chapter 1 A Disorder without a Name From: Somebodies and Nobodies View New Society Publishers	Explores prejudice of society and the barriers created by the various "isms." Posits that -isms are the symptoms of the darker disease of "rankism."	Robert W. Fuller	11	2004	$1.10 Add
From Chapter 1 From status to contract: Toward new legal forms of worker subjugation From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	This chapter explores the evolution of labour legislation, highlighting the role these laws played in limiting workers’ rights and reinforcing class hierarchies. It also analyzes collective …	Harry Glasbeek	18	2024	$1.80 Add
From Chapter 10 Executives: In a class of their own? From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	This chapter explores the central role of executives and managers in corporate operations, arguing that their wealth and power have grown as they exercise influence beyond their individual …	Harry Glasbeek	26	2024	$2.60 Add
From Chapter 11 A legal right to maim and kill workers From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	This chapter examines how the structures and ideology supported by law to maintain and perpetuate capitalism ensure the dominance of one class over another. It also discusses how, when it comes …	Harry Glasbeek	33	2024	$3.30 Add
From Chapter 12 The dignity of work versus the degradation of work under capitalism From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	This chapter examines how the basic structure of capitalism makes work unrewarding, and how legal systems legitimize and reinforce these conditions. It argues that the law not only sustains …	Harry Glasbeek	29	2024	$2.90 Add
From NEW! Chapter 12: Indigenous Waged Work and First Nations Organizing, 1890-1930 From: Capitalism and Colonialism View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter shows how in the early decades of the twentieth century Indigenous Peoples, with diminished roles in traditional work, endured economic hardship and were excluded from steady wage jobs.	Bryan D. Palmer	15	2025	$1.50 Add
From Chapter 13 Selected Notes From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	This page lists selected notes used throghout the book.	Harry Glasbeek	1	2024	$0.10 Add
From NEW! Chapter 14: Class Conflict and Socialists The Era of World War and Revolution From: Capitalism and Colonialism View James Lorimer and Company	The chapter discusses how early-twentieth-century labour militancy —from the rise of the AFL to the Winnipeg General Strike — took place alongside Indigenous resistance but ultimately …	Bryan D. Palmer	19	2025	$1.90 Add
From NEW! Chapter 15: Women’s Work and Capitalism’s Changing Employment Opportunities, 1910-29 From: Capitalism and Colonialism View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter outlines how women’s waged work expanded in the early decades of the twentieth century with employment in offices, banking, and retail.	Bryan D. Palmer	8	2025	$0.80 Add
From NEW! Chapter 16: The Distinct Society of Quebec, 1900-30 From: Capitalism and Colonialism View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter examines Québec’s Distinct Society which emerged in response to foreign economic and cultural control. Resistance emerged in the figure of Henri Bourassa and his …	Bryan D. Palmer	14	2025	$1.40 Add
From NEW! Chapter 19: Outcasts and Dissidents in the Early 1930s From: Capitalism and Colonialism View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter discusses the examines the 1930s hobo jungles emerged due to the unemployment crisis and militant groups such as the Communist Worker’s Unity League (WUL) and the 1935 …	Bryan D. Palmer	16	2025	$1.60 Add
From Chapter 2 Growing From: Farm the City View New Society Publishers	This lengthy and comprehensive chapter about growing covers all practical aspects of growing food in urban, paved or contaminated environments including the infrastructure, such as greenhouses …	Michael Ableman	56	2020	$5.60 Add
From Chapter 2 The Workers' Revolt From: The Canadian Labour Movement View James Lorimer and Company	Chapter two deals with the emergence of new workers’ movements on the changing terrain of the Second Industrial Revolution in Canada. It also explores the emerging crisis for craftworkers …	Charles Smith; Craig Heron	30	2020	$3.00 Add
From Chapter 2 Uses and Abuses of Rank From: Somebodies and Nobodies View New Society Publishers	What rankism looks like and how pervasive it is in society. The psyche of bullying has its roots in rankism and creates an endless cycle of "kicking the dog."	Robert W. Fuller	12	2004	$1.20 Add