Politics & Power

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Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Capital-labour struggles better described as wars

From: Law at Work

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 … 16 $1.60 Add
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Chapter 2: The New Capitalist-Colonial Order, 1890-1929
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Chapter 2: The New Capitalist-Colonial Order, 1890-1929

From: Capitalism and Colonialism

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. 9 $0.90 Add
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Chapter 3

Chapter 3

World War II: Promises made, fulfilled, and then diluted

From: Law at Work

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 … 28 $2.80 Add
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Chapter 4

Chapter 4

The common law’s anti-collectivism and the impoverished right to strike

From: Law at Work

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 … 39 $3.90 Add
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Chapter 5

Chapter 5

How judges are programmed to define and interpret contracts of employment

From: Law at Work

This chapter explains how the legal system and the rules and decisions which show the law lives comfortable with differential treatment, prioritizes property rights and employer interests often … 14 $1.40 Add
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Chapter 6

Chapter 6

How employers avoid the employment contract’s strictures and profit from its principles and ideology

From: Law at Work

The story shared in this chapter highlights the measures capitalists will take to escape legal regulations that try to restrict their profit-maximization drive. It also describes how capitalists … 25 $2.50 Add
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Chapter 7

Chapter 7

Workers’ need to expand the scope of contracts of employment

From: Law at Work

This chapter discusses the ways in which capitalists seek for ways to maximize profits, including finding ways to pass the costs of making profits on to others and pressuring governments to … 27 $2.70 Add
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Chapter 8

Chapter 8

Helping employers out: A private sphere of criminal justice

From: Law at Work

This chapter discusses how the contract of employment is a contract of submission. It highlights the ways the law also ensures that it is a contract of subordination, giving ownership of the … 32 $3.20 Add