Politics & Power
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From  NEW! 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 … | Jørgen Randers; Jayati Ghosh; Johan Rockström; Owen Gaffney; Per Espen Stoknes; Sandrine Dixson-Declève | 18 | 2022 | $1.80 Add |
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From  NEW! A Coming CapitalismThe 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. | Bryan D. Palmer | 17 | 2024 | $1.70 Add |
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From NEW! A Fateful Transition, 1870-90Big 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. | Bryan D. Palmer | 12 | 2024 | $1.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Achieving Better Results for Members, 1980-89From: 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. | Jason Russell | 30 | 2020 | $3.00 Add |
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From  Becoming HumanDiversity 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 … | Alex Khasnabish | 26 | 2022 | $2.60 Add |
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From  Border Militarization, Internalization and Externalization |
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 |
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From  Business Control in a Working Class TownFrom: 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. | Bill Freeman | 10 | 2016 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Capital and the LeftFrom: 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. | Silvia Federici | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
 NEW! Capitalism and ColonialismThe 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 … | Bryan D. Palmer | 434 | 2025 | View |
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From  Changing Patterns in the Literature of Climate Change and Canadian WorkThe Research of Academics, Government and Social Actors From: Climate@Work |
Elizabeth Perry | 10 | 2013 | $1.00 Add | |
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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 |
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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 Chapter 13Selected Notes From: Law at Work |
This page lists selected notes used throghout the book. | Harry Glasbeek | 1 | 2024 | $0.10 Add |
