Politics & Power

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Managing Migration

Managing Migration

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

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 … 13 $1.30 Add
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Marx, Feminism, and the Construction of the Commons

Marx, Feminism, and the Construction of the Commons

From: 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 … 25 $2.50 Add
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Migrant Organizing on the New Fault Lines of Global Capitalism

Migrant Organizing on the New Fault Lines of Global Capitalism

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

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 … 14 $1.40 Add
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Migrant Workers Fight for the Entire Working Class

Migrant Workers Fight for the Entire Working Class

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

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 … 12 $1.20 Add
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Neoliberal Migration Takes Hold

Neoliberal Migration Takes Hold

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

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 … 15 $1.50 Add
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New Forms of Organizing

New Forms of Organizing

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

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 … 19 $1.90 Add
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Nothing Can Be Taken for Granted, 1990-1999
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Nothing Can Be Taken for Granted, 1990-1999

From: 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 … 39 $3.90 Add
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Occupational Disease Recognition

Occupational Disease Recognition

The 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 14 $1.40 Add
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On Nature's Limits and the Human Condition

On Nature’s Limits and the Human Condition

Parrots 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, … 17 $1.70 Add
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Organizing for the Strike – Leadership and Engagement

Organizing for the Strike – Leadership and Engagement

From: The Truth About the '37 Oshawa GM Strike

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. 27 $2.70 Add
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Origins and Development of Sexual Work in the United States and Britain

Origins and Development of Sexual Work in the United States and Britain

From: Patriarchy of the Wage

This chapter focuses on sexual work; it discusses history, sexuality, class, and gender/labour politics. 16 $1.60 Add
Patriarchy of the Wage

Patriarchy of the Wage

Notes 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 … 144 View
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Power and Order

Power and Order

Inequality, 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. … 24 $2.40 Add
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Powerless and Powerful Identities

Powerless and Powerful Identities

Hegemony 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 … 11 $1.10 Add
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Precarious Work Requires Precarious Workers

Precarious Work Requires Precarious Workers

From: Essential Work Disposable 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 … 12 $1.20 Add