Politics & Power
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From ![]() Managing Migration |
This chapter examines how, since 2006, Canada has constructed an immigration regime that centres temporary migrant labour — the ideal immigration regime in service of global capitalism. Canada’s … | Mostafa Henaway | 13 | 2023 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() Marx, Feminism, and the Construction of the CommonsFrom: Patriarchy of the Wage |
This chapter asks: What tools, principles, and ideas can Marxism bring to feminist theory and politics in our time? Can we think today of a relation between Marxism and feminism other than the … | Silvia Federici | 25 | 2021 | $2.50 Add |
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From ![]() Migrant Organizing on the New Fault Lines of Global Capitalism |
This chapter illustrates how new unions and worker centres emerged to successfully organize in global cities like Toronto, New York and London and within the chokepoints of logistics hubs for … | Mostafa Henaway | 14 | 2023 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() Migrant Workers Fight for the Entire Working Class |
This chapter is about how migrant and racialized worker organizations took leadership in broad-based campaigns to improve conditions for the entire working class. As one example, the chapter … | Mostafa Henaway | 12 | 2023 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() Neoliberal Migration Takes Hold |
This chapter focuses on four countries in the Global South to illustrate how the implementation of neoliberal policies has not led to development but has turned them into major labour-exporting … | Mostafa Henaway | 15 | 2023 | $1.50 Add |
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From ![]() New Forms of Organizing |
This chapter describes how worker centres emerged as a new model of organizing migrant workers in response to the sweeping global economic transformations of neoliberalism, described in the first … | Mostafa Henaway | 19 | 2023 | $1.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Nothing Can Be Taken for Granted, 1990-1999From: Leading Progess |
In this chapter, Russell details how PIPSC addressed the ideological changes of the 1990s, including a rightward shift in the Canadian political landscape, the growth of neoliberal policies, and … | Jason Russell | 39 | 2020 | $3.90 Add |
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From ![]() Occupational Disease RecognitionThe Science and Politics in Workers' Compensation From: Sick and Tired |
Challenges of Integrating Scientific Evidence in Legal Debates Whose Science? Determining Causation in Workers’ Compensation Legislation and Decisions Conclusion | Katherine Lippel | 14 | 2018 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() On Nature’s Limits and the Human ConditionParrots and Peoples From: Peak Everything |
People who live a civilized life are like birds in a cage. As long as we stay within well-defined social bounds (and assuming we are lucky enough to have been born in a wealthy parasitic society, … | Richard Heinberg | 17 | 2010 | $1.70 Add |
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From ![]() Organizing for the Strike – Leadership and Engagement |
In this chapter, Leah examines the 1937 General Motors strike in Oshawa, Ontario, focusing on how rank-and-file democratic participation and the steward system shaped the campaign. | Tony Leah | 27 | 2024 | $2.70 Add |
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From ![]() Origins and Development of Sexual Work in the United States and BritainFrom: Patriarchy of the Wage |
This chapter focuses on sexual work; it discusses history, sexuality, class, and gender/labour politics. | Silvia Federici | 16 | 2021 | $1.60 Add |
![]() Patriarchy of the WageNotes on Marx, Gender, and Feminism |
At a time when socialism is entering a historic crisis and we are witnessing a worldwide expansion of capitalist relations, a feminist rethinking of Marx’s work is vitally important. In … | Silvia Federici | 144 | 2021 | View |
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From ![]() Power and OrderInequality, Injustice, and Paths Beyond From: Making Sense of Society |
In Chapter 8, Khasnabish concludes the book by taking a critical look at the way our social relations and institutions are structured and how they are deeply shaped by prevailing power dynamics. … | Alex Khasnabish | 24 | 2022 | $2.40 Add |
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From ![]() Powerless and Powerful IdentitiesHegemony and Supreme Power From: The Power Manual |
Powerless and Powerful Identities, explores the space between Gramsci’s hegemony, the idea that the very acceptance of power as dominance renders one powerless, and the philosophy of … | Cyndi Suarez | 11 | 2018 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() Precarious Work Requires Precarious Workers |
This chapter specifically follows the rise of temporary placement agencies as a tool of employers to utilize undocumented, precarious and racialized migrants for capital. The shift from … | Mostafa Henaway | 12 | 2023 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() Related ReadingsFrom: Somebodies and Nobodies |
Robert W. Fuller | 15 | 2004 | $1.50 Add |












