Politics & Power

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! 4. The Inequality Turnaround “Sharing the Dividends” From: Earth for All View New Society Publishers	Chapter 4 explores the challenges of the growing inequality across the globe. Topics discussing include economic inequality, privatization, the creation of progressive taxation for …	Jørgen Randers; Jayati Ghosh; Johan Rockström; Owen Gaffney; Per Espen Stoknes; Sandrine Dixson-Declève	18	2022	$1.80 Add
From NEW! A Coming Capitalism The Nineteenth-Century Transportation Revolution From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 James Lorimer and Company	This chapter examines the transportation revolution in Canada in the nineteenth century.	Bryan D. Palmer	17	2024	$1.70 Add
From NEW! A Fateful Transition, 1870–90 Big Industries, Big Banks From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890 James Lorimer and Company	This chapter discusses the rise of big Industry and Banking in Canada in the late nineteenth century.	Bryan D. Palmer	12	2024	$1.20 Add
From NEW! Achieving Better Results for Members, 1980-89 From: Leading Progess View Between The Lines	This chapter describes the issues confronting the PIPSC in the 1980s and how PIPSC responded to these new challenges, drawing on interviews with current and past PIPSC members.	Jason Russell	30	2020	$3.00 Add
From Anybody But Conservative Canadian Unions and Strategic Voting From: Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada View Fernwood Publishing	In recent elections, many were driven by a desire to block Conservatives from gaining power rather than faith that Liberals would champion union causes. However, because tactical shifts have an …	Larry Savage	23	2021	$2.30 Add
From NEW! Becoming Human Diversity and Evolution From: Making Sense of Society View Fernwood Publishing	In Chapter 1, Khasnabish and co-author Anthony Davis explore what it means to be human, teasing out the interconnected relationship between our biological and social evolutions. The chapter …	Alex Khasnabish	26	2022	$2.60 Add
From NEW! Border Militarization, Internalization and Externalization From: Essential Work Disposable Workers View Fernwood Publishing	Borders have become a means through which states can dispose of unwanted migrants through deportation and award those deemed legitimate with permanent residency. This has led to the increased …	Mostafa Henaway	10	2023	$1.00 Add
From Business Control in a Working Class Town From: Their Town View James Lorimer and Company	Examines how local government is structured and explains how business interests have managed to capture and hold political power in what is basically a working class town.	Bill Freeman	10	2016	$1.00 Add
From Business Unionism and Social Unionism in Theory and Practice From: Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada View Fernwood Publishing	Recognizing the coexistence of historicized ideal types of both “business unionism” and “social unionism” in the labour movement in general, and specifically within unions …	Stephanie Ross	18	2021	$1.80 Add
From Canadian Labour and COVID-19 From: Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada View Fernwood Publishing	Only by tearing down the false division between political and economic spheres and questioning the legitimacy of a capitalist economic system that continues to prioritize profits over people …	Larry Savage; Stephanie Ross	15	2021	$1.50 Add
From Canadian Labour and the Environment Addressing the Value-Action Gap From: Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada View Fernwood Publishing	Many of the most valuable things that labour can contribute to the quest for environmental sustainability go beyond its own environmental activities per se, spilling over into the broader …	Dennis Soron	19	2021	$1.90 Add
From Capital and the Left From: Patriarchy of the Wage View Between The Lines	This chapter focuses on the past and future of the feminist movement, divisions in this movement, and the connection between feminism and socialism.	Silvia Federici	7	2021	$0.70 Add
From Changing Patterns in the Literature of Climate Change and Canadian Work The Research of Academics, Government and Social Actors From: Climate@Work View Fernwood Publishing		Elizabeth Perry	10	2013	$1.00 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 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
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