Labour Studies
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From ![]() Chapter 1From status to contract: Toward new legal forms of worker subjugation From: Law at Work |
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 |
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From ![]() Chapter 10Executives: In a class of their own? From: Law at Work |
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 |
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From ![]() Chapter 11A legal right to maim and kill workers From: Law at Work |
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 |
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From ![]() Chapter 12The dignity of work versus the degradation of work under capitalism From: Law at Work |
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 |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 12: Indigenous Waged Work and First Nations Organizing, 1890-1930 |
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 |
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From ![]() Chapter 13Selected Notes From: Law at Work |
This page lists selected notes used throghout the book. | Harry Glasbeek | 1 | 2024 | $0.10 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 14: Class Conflict and SocialistsThe Era of World War and Revolution |
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 |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 15: Women’s Work and Capitalism’s Changing Employment Opportunities, 1910-29 |
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 |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 16: The Distinct Society of Quebec, 1900-30 |
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 |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 19: Outcasts and Dissidents in the Early 1930s |
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 |
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From ![]() Chapter 2Growing From: Farm the City |
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 |
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From ![]() Chapter 2The Workers' Revolt |
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 |
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From ![]() Chapter 2Uses and Abuses of Rank From: Somebodies and Nobodies |
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 |
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From ![]() Chapter 2Capital-labour struggles better described as wars From: Law at Work |
This chapter examines how labour unions and legal reforms from the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth centuries challenged employer dominance, and how the Great Depression prompted worker-focused … | Harry Glasbeek | 16 | 2024 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 2: The New Capitalist-Colonial Order, 1890-1929 |
This chapter reviews the rise of corporate power in Canada and rapid change in the workplace marked by labour conflict and social protest, notably in the 1918 Winnipeg General Strike. | Bryan D. Palmer | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Chapter 20: Communists, CCFers, Workers, and the Unemployed1937, a Year of Rebellion |
This chapter discusses the role played by the Popular Front united Canadian Communists and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in the anti-fascist cause. | Bryan D. Palmer | 11 | 2025 | $1.10 Add |








