Labour Studies

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From Chapter 2 Capital-labour struggles better described as wars From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	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
From NEW! Chapter 2: The New Capitalist-Colonial Order, 1890-1929 From: Capitalism and Colonialism View James Lorimer and Company	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
From NEW! Chapter 20: Communists, CCFers, Workers, and the Unemployed 1937, a Year of Rebellion From: Capitalism and Colonialism View James Lorimer and Company	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
From NEW! Chapter 25: Capital at Home and Abroad, 1945-60 From: Capitalism and Colonialism View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter explains how the unemployment and social collapse of the Depression prompted grassroots solidarities and militant Communist organizing.	Bryan D. Palmer	19	2025	$1.90 Add
From NEW! Chapter 26: Managing Labour’s Momentum The Post-War Settlement, 1945-59 From: Capitalism and Colonialism View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter looks at the labour militancy that achieved union recognition in the 1945–48 strike wave and the historic Rand Formula.	Bryan D. Palmer	14	2025	$1.40 Add
From NEW! Chapter 27: Quebec in the 1940s and 1950s "The Great Darkness" From: Capitalism and Colonialism View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter explains how In the 1940s and 1950s Québec underwent rapid industrial growth and a more secularized labour movement led to landmark struggles like the 1949 Asbestos and 1952 …	Bryan D. Palmer	8	2025	$0.80 Add
From Chapter 3 Marketing From: Farm the City View New Society Publishers	This chapter discusses choices and considerations for marketing produce such as farmers’ markets, on site retail, community supported agriculture (CSA), restaurant sales, direct to retail, …	Michael Ableman	18	2020	$1.80 Add
From Chapter 3 The Giant Tamed From: The Canadian Labour Movement View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter considers the difficulties of organizing against employer hostility, relative state indifference, economic depression in the 1930s and then the emergence of vibrant new …	Charles Smith; Craig Heron	27	2020	$2.70 Add
From Chapter 3 The Toll of Rank Abuse From: Somebodies and Nobodies View New Society Publishers	The pervasiveness of rankism in history and society’s resistance to foundational change and growth. Problems with trying to subvert rank without abolishing rank are discussed.	Robert W. Fuller	19	2004	$1.90 Add
From Chapter 3 World War II: Promises made, fulfilled, and then diluted From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	This chapter looks at how labour policies changed during and after World War II, where many of the advances made by the working class were challenged in the 1930s. It also covers the many worker …	Harry Glasbeek	28	2024	$2.80 Add
From NEW! Chapter 31: Conclusion Canada at Mid-Century From: Capitalism and Colonialism View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter outlines how at mid-century the state had achieved labour calm and a certain amount of economic and political stability while it had removed thousands of First Nations and Inuit from …	Bryan D. Palmer	7	2025	$0.70 Add
From Chapter 4 People and Principles From: Farm the City View New Society Publishers	This chapter delves deeper into the staffing an urban farm. For Sole Food Street Farm, it is to create meaningful, healthy full-time jobs for people most in need of them, and this shapes all of …	Michael Ableman	15	2020	$1.50 Add
From Chapter 4 The New Resistance From: The Canadian Labour Movement View James Lorimer and Company	Author Craig Heron explores the rise of new waves of labour unrest in the 1960s and 1970s. The chapter addresses the economic, social and political conditions that spawned this new resistance and …	Charles Smith; Craig Heron	22	2020	$2.20 Add
From Chapter 4 The Hunger for Recognition From: Somebodies and Nobodies View New Society Publishers	Humanity’s relentless pursuit to answer the question "who am I?" The constant drive to be Somebody and the fear of being Nobody are used to address the inner tumult of craving …	Robert W. Fuller	15	2004	$1.50 Add
From Chapter 4 The common law’s anti-collectivism and the impoverished right to strike From: Law at Work View Between The Lines	This chapter examines how competitive capitalism undermined worker solidarity by pressuring individuals to compete for jobs and accept employer conditions, which widened the divide between …	Harry Glasbeek	39	2024	$3.90 Add
From Chapter 5 Counterattack From: The Canadian Labour Movement View James Lorimer and Company	Chapter five examines the emerging response of the state and private employers to the new working-class militancy of the 1970s. It considers the introduction of wage and price controls, …	Charles Smith; Craig Heron	26	2020	$2.60 Add