Politics & Power
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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 | |
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From ![]() Restoring the Canadian Left |
Thom Workman | 23 | 2005 | $3.68 Add | |
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From ![]() Revolution Begins at Home: Rethinking Marx, Reproduction, and the Class StruggleFrom: Patriarchy of the Wage |
This essay’s argument is divided in four parts. Part 1 examines the evidence and reasons for Marx’s undertheorization of “reproduction,” focusing on his reductive concept … | Silvia Federici | 20 | 2021 | $2.00 Add |
![]() Somebodies and NobodiesOvercoming the Abuse of Rank |
In the ongoing attempts to overcome racism and sexism in North America today, we are overlooking another kind of discrimination that is no less damaging and equally unjustifiable. It is a form of … | Robert W. Fuller | 208 | 2004 | View |
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From ![]() NEW! Starting as Professionals, 1920-1969From: Leading Progess |
In this chapter, the author discusses how the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada emerged and changed along with Canada during its first fifty years, when major external and … | Jason Russell | 27 | 2020 | $2.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Stepping Up to a Larger Union Stage, 2010-19From: Leading Progess |
In this chapter, Russell explores how PIPSC dealt with issues and opportunities as it approached its hundred-year aniversary. PIPSC members confronted the Harper government’s muzzling of … | Jason Russell | 34 | 2020 | $3.40 Add |
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From ![]() Striking for Status |
This chapter describes why undocumented migrants’ struggles for status are fundamentally about workers’ rights. In certain moments, like 2006 and 2017 in the US and 2008 in France, marginalized … | Mostafa Henaway | 10 | 2023 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() The Construction of Domestic Work in Nineteenth-Century England and the Patriarchy of the WageFrom: Patriarchy of the Wage |
This chapter examines the history of our current understanding of "domestic work/women’s labour" and the effects of this relatively recent construction on women. | Silvia Federici | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() The Forest IndustryFrom: Climate@Work |
John Holmes | 17 | 2013 | $1.70 Add | |
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From ![]() The Gig Is Up |
This chapter is a small love note to the iwc (Immigrant Workers Centre) for always being willing to experiment to find new ways to build leadership and solidarity. It’s difficult for unions to … | Mostafa Henaway | 10 | 2023 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() The Impact of Climate Change on Employment and Skills Requirements in the Construction IndustryFrom: Climate@Work |
John O'Grady | 19 | 2013 | $1.90 Add |











