Politics & Power
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From  Responsibility |
In this chapter, Malone traces workplace responsibility in North America, highlighting the lethal physical dangers of industrial construction in the 1880s, as well as modern harassment … | Matt Malone | 23 | 2023 | $2.30 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 |
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From  NEW! Sciopero! Sciopero! |
This chapter recounts the 1960 construction workers’ strike in Toronto, led by Italian-Canadian labourers seeking union recognition. Triggered by the Hogg’s Hollow disaster and unsafe … | Gilberto Fernandes | 13 | 2026 | $1.30 Add |
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From Scoping |
In this chapter, Malone examines how an employer’s decision to define the scope of a workplace investigation shapes its outcome. | Matt Malone | 8 | 2023 | $0.80 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, … | 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 … | 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 | |
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From The Long Struggle for Status |
This chapter is an effort to convey the urgency of permanent status for migrants. The chapter examines the campaigns of self-organized migrants who have constructed communities of struggle that … | Mostafa Henaway | 16 | 2023 | $1.60 Add |
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From  The McLaughlins vs. The Workers |
In this chapter, Leah traces class conflict in Oshawa, Ontario, from the 1860s through the 1940s, centring on the McLaughlin family and the workers who built the town’s industrial identity. | Tony Leah | 13 | 2024 | $1.30 Add |
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From The Neoliberal Rollback in Historical Perspective |
Thom Workman | 28 | 2005 | $4.48 Add |
