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Chapter 9

Chapter 9

Helping employers out: A private sphere of criminal justice

From: Law at Work

This chapter examines how governments determined which businesses are essential to the public welfare during the COVID-19 pandemic. It argues that labeling employees essential workers functions … 21 $2.10 Add
Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500-1890
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Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada’s Origins 1500-1890

A 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 are … 444 View
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Conceptions of Working Lilfe and Labour Law

Conceptions of Working Lilfe and Labour Law

From: If You're In My Way, I'm Walking

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Conclusion
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Conclusion

From: Leading Progess

In the concluding chapter, Russell suggests that the key moment in PIPSC’s history occurred in 1967, when the Public Service Staff Relations Act allowed federal public servants to unionize. 16 $1.60 Add
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Conclusion: Freedom of Movement for People, Not Capital

Conclusion: Freedom of Movement for People, Not Capital

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

In the conclusion to this book, Heneway discusses capitalism as an economic system, and once again breaks down the impact of globalization on trade and labour. 10 $1.00 Add
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Counterplanning from the Kitchen

Counterplanning from the Kitchen

From: Patriarchy of the Wage

This chapter responds to recent attacks on Wages for Housework, exploring feminism, capitalism, and marxism. It touches on topics such as the glorification of the family and unpaid labour, … 17 $1.70 Add
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Doing Social Research

Doing Social Research

Intentionally Exploring Social Life

From: Making Sense of Society

In Chapter 2, Khasnabish examines the process of how social research is conducted by anthropologists, sociologists, and practitioners in other related disciplines and the problems that can arise … 39 $3.90 Add
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Economic and Political Crisis

Economic and Political Crisis

From: Big Business and Hitler

Revisionist historian Jacques R. Pauwels examines the period of 1929-1932 and the economic and political crises that led more and more of Germany’s elite to support Hitler. 11 $1.10 Add
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Effective Interactions

Effective Interactions

Supremacist Power and Liberatory Power

From: The Power Manual

There are three core propositions in chapter 1, Effective Interactions, drawing on the work of Michel Foucault and bell hooks: (1) that there are both supremacist and liberatory ways to act out … 4 $0.40 Add
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Empire, War and Revolution

Empire, War and Revolution

From: Big Business and Hitler

Revisionist historian Jacques R. Pauwels examines the situation in Germany from 1900-1919 that led to Hitler’s rise to power paying particular focus on the German elite of aristocrats and … 12 $1.20 Add