Politics & Power
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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Climate@Work |
Climate@Work addresses this deficit by systematically tackling the question of the impact of climate change on work and employment and by analyzing Canada’s conservative silence towards … | Carla Lipsig-Mummé | 200 | 2013 | View |
NEW! Colonialism and Capitalism Canada’s Origins 1500-1890A New History for the Twenty-First Century |
Colonialism and Capitalism: A New History of Canada offers readers access to a clear-eyed understanding of Canada’s past, explaining how recently-acknowledged dark facts about our history … | Bryan D. Palmer | 444 | 2024 | View |
NEW! Essential Work Disposable WorkersMigration, Capitalism, and Class |
Across the world we are witnessing daily the lethal effects of a rapid and scary hardening of borders, ignited and justified by manufactured fear and scarcity. In such conditions, highly … | Mostafa Henaway | 230 | 2023 | View |
If You’re In My Way, I’m WalkingThe Assault on Working People Since 1970 |
“If you’re in my way I’m walking.” This arrogant statement by former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien on the occasion of his physical altercation with a protester in … | Thom Workman | 160 | 2005 | View |
NEW! Leading ProgessThe Professional Institute of the Public Service Canada, 1920–2020 |
On February 6, 1920, a small group of public service employees met for the first time to form a professional association. A century later, the Professional Institute of the Public Service Canada … | Jason Russell | 272 | 2020 | View |
NEW! Making Sense of SocietyPower and Possibility |
Grounded in the sister disciplines of sociology and anthropology, this textbook is an accessible and critical introduction to contemporary social research. Alex Khasnabish eschews the common … | Alex Khasnabish | 273 | 2022 | View |
Patriarchy of the WageNotes on Marx, Gender, and Feminism |
At a time when socialism is entering a historic crisis and we are witnessing a worldwide expansion of capitalist relations, a feminist rethinking of Marx’s work is vitally important. In … | Silvia Federici | 144 | 2021 | View |
Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada2nd ed. |
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the need to re-establish the labour movement’s political capacity to exert collective power in ways that foster greater opportunity and equality for … | Larry Savage; Stephanie Ross | 240 | 2021 | View |
Somebodies and NobodiesOvercoming the Abuse of Rank |
In the ongoing attempts to overcome racism and sexism in North America today, we are overlooking another kind of discrimination that is no less damaging and equally unjustifiable. It is a form of … | Robert W. Fuller | 208 | 2004 | View |
The Power ManualHow to Master Complex Power Dynamics |
Liberate yourself by understanding and mastering power dynamics All social relations are laden with power. Getting out from under dominant power relations and mastering power dynamics is perhaps … | Cyndi Suarez | 195 | 2018 | View |
From Chapter 1A Disorder without a Name From: Somebodies and Nobodies |
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 NEW! Foreword / Introduction: Essential Yet Disposable |
This section includes the foreword and introduction of this book. In the introduction, Mostafa Heneway describes the political landscape that facilitates the exploitation of migrant workers and … | Mostafa Henaway | 14 | 2023 | $1.40 Add |
From IntroductionFrom: Climate@Work |
Carla Lipsig-Mummé | 3 | 2013 | $0.30 Add | |
From IntroductionFrom: The Power Manual |
Why do power relations matter in social change, or for any of us who care about living the best life we can live? Because we have to be clear about the type of power we seek. We need power to … | Cyndi Suarez | 4 | 2018 | $0.40 Add |
From NEW! IntroductionFrom: Leading Progess |
Jason Russell | 7 | 2020 | $0.70 Add | |
From Introduction |
From growing levels of income and wealth inequality in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic to capital’s consistent ability to tame governments willing to reject neoliberal imperatives; from … | Larry Savage; Stephanie Ross | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |