Labour Studies
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From  ContextFrom: Fight Back |
- | Aziz Choudry; Eric Shragge; Jill Hanley; Martha Stiegman; Steve Jordan | 18 | 2009 | $1.80 Add |
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From  Counterplanning from the KitchenFrom: Patriarchy of the Wage |
This chapter responds to recent attacks on Wages for Housework, exploring feminism, capitalism, and marxism. It touches on topics such as the glorification of the family and unpaid labour, … | Silvia Federici | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
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From  NEW! Creatures of Impossible and Tremendous Beauty |
In “Creatures of Impossible and Tremendous Beauty” the author recounts their experiences with femininity and being “like a girl.” Discussing childhood expectations and … | Lori Fox | 19 | 2022 | $1.90 Add |
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From  Diagnosing the DiseaseFrom: Curing Affluenza |
Chapter 1 focuses on defining or diagnosing ‘affluenza’, discussing topics including environmental destruction, global inequality, culture of wasteful materialism, technological … | Richard Denniss | 26 | 2018 | $2.60 Add |
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From  Effective InteractionsSupremacist Power and Liberatory Power From: The Power Manual |
There are three core propositions in chapter 1, Effective Interactions, drawing on the work of Michel Foucault and bell hooks: (1) that there are both supremacist and liberatory ways to act out … | Cyndi Suarez | 4 | 2018 | $0.40 Add |
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From  Empire, War and RevolutionFrom: Big Business and Hitler |
Revisionist historian Jacques R. Pauwels examines the situation in Germany from 1900-1919 that led to Hitler’s rise to power paying particular focus on the German elite of aristocrats and … | Jacques R. Pauwels | 12 | 2017 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Facilitation Training for Union WomenThe Saskatchewan Experience |
Chapter One discusses course facilitation at the Prairie School for Union Women. Adriane and Barb have both designed and led facilitation-training courses at the school, and their passion and … | Adriane Paavo; Barb Thomas | 10 | 2019 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Farm Worker ExceptionalismPast, Present, and the post-Fraser Future |
Discusses farm worker exceptionalism, specifically considering how the Fraser case has effected this, as well as the history of farm worker exceptionalism, the role of the Charter and the future … | Eric Tucker | 27 | 2012 | $2.70 Add |
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From  ForewordFrom: A New Kind of Union |
Peter Kennedy, Unifor’s former secretary treasurer, briefly explains why he is proud to have played a part in the creation of Unifor. | Peter Kennedy | 4 | 2019 | $0.40 Add |
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From  Foreword to the Second EditionFrom: Winnipeg 1919 |
W.A Pritchard, one of the eight tried for seditious conspiracy following the 1919 strike, recalls his role in the strike and discusses the importance of the book. | W.A. Pritchard | 2 | 2019 | $0.20 Add |
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From  Free Markets and the Decline of Unions and Good JobsFrom: Boom, Bust and Crisis |
- | John Peters | 39 | 2012 | $5.85 Add |
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From  Head of the Mercantile Community of BostonSECTION ONE - From ships’ captains to captains of industry From: A Distinct Alien Race |
The chapter first looks at the story of the merchant Thomas Handasyd Perkins and the New England textile industry, using this merchant’s life and beliefs as a case study. It also examines … | David Vermette | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add |
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From  Inequality, The Profit System and Global CrisisFrom: Bankrupticies & Bailouts |
- | David McNally | 14 | 2009 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Introduction |
Author Craig Heron introduces the reader to the broad outlines of economic and social development in Canada that helped to shape the Canadian labour movement since the mid-nineteenth century. It … | Charles Smith; Craig Heron | 14 | 2020 | $1.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Introduction |
In the book’s introduction, the authors suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic revealed the failure of free-market fundamentalism. They believe that livable basic income would enhance freedom … | Dr. Danielle Martin; Elaine Power; Jamie Swift | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
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From  IntroductionFrom: Fixing Fashion |
The introduction begins with a look at the author’s early career in the fashion industry, particularly, the international sourcing of Hanes brand clothing. The author introduces some key … | Michael Lavergne | 10 | 2015 | $1.00 Add |
