Politics & Power

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4. The Inequality Turnaround
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4. The Inequality Turnaround

“Sharing the Dividends”

From: Earth for All

Chapter 4 explores the challenges of the growing inequality across the globe. Topics discussing include economic inequality, privatization,  the creation of progressive taxation for … ; ; ; ; ; 18 $1.80 Add
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A Coming Capitalism
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A Coming Capitalism

The Nineteenth-Century Transportation Revolution

From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890

This chapter examines the transportation revolution in Canada in the nineteenth century. 17 $1.70 Add
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A Fateful Transition, 1870-90
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A Fateful Transition, 1870-90

Big Industries, Big Banks

From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890

This chapter discusses the rise of big Industry and Banking in Canada in the late nineteenth century. 12 $1.20 Add
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Achieving Better Results for Members, 1980-89
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Achieving Better Results for Members, 1980-89

From: Leading Progess

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. 30 $3.00 Add
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Becoming Human

Becoming Human

Diversity and Evolution

From: Making Sense of Society

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 … 26 $2.60 Add
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Border Militarization, Internalization and Externalization

Border Militarization, Internalization and Externalization

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

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 … 10 $1.00 Add
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Business Control in a Working Class Town

Business Control in a Working Class Town

From: Their Town

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. 10 $1.00 Add
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Capital and the Left

Capital and the Left

From: Patriarchy of the Wage

This chapter focuses on the past and future of the feminist movement, divisions in this movement, and the connection between feminism and socialism. 7 $0.70 Add
Capitalism and Colonialism
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Capitalism and Colonialism

The Making of Modern Canada, 1890-1960

This second volume of Bryan Palmer’s history of Canada covers 1890 to 1960, in which Palmer examines the continuing role of capitalism and colonialism in structuring Canadian society, from … 434 View
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Chapter 1

Chapter 1

From 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 … 18 $1.80 Add
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Chapter 10

Chapter 10

Executives: 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 … 26 $2.60 Add
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Chapter 11

Chapter 11

A 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 … 33 $3.30 Add
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Chapter 12

Chapter 12

The 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 … 29 $2.90 Add
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Chapter 13

Selected Notes

From: Law at Work

This page lists selected notes used throghout the book. 1 $0.10 Add