Social Policy
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() NEW! Change for GoodAn Action-Oriented Approach for Businesses to Benefit from Solving the World’s Most Urgent Social Problems |
An action-oriented approach for businesses to solve the world’s most urgent social problems — and benefit from doing so. More than a year into a global pandemic, profit and … | Paul Klein | 274 | 2022 | View |
![]() Curing AffluenzaHow to Buy Less Stuff and Save the World |
Affluenza has not just changed the world, it has also changed the way we see the world. Short of money? Borrow some. Caught in the rain? Buy an umbrella. Thirsty? Buy a bottle of water and throw … | Richard Denniss | 288 | 2018 | View |
![]() Shift ChangeScenes from a Post-industrial Revolution |
Hamilton’s industrial age is over. In the steel capital of Canada, there are no more skies lit red by foundries at sunset, no more traffic jams at shift change. Instead, an urban … | Stephen Dale | 252 | 2021 | View |
![]() NEW! This Has Always Been a WarThe Radicalization of a Working-Class Queer |
A powerful, personal critique of capitalist patriarchy as seen through the eyes of a queer radical. Capitalism has infiltrated every aspect of our personal, social, economic, and sexual lives. By … | Lori Fox | 321 | 2022 | View |
From ![]() NEW! At Your Service |
In “At Your Service ” author Lori Fox recounts their time in the service industry between 2003 -2020 to provide a case study of the culture of capitalism. Discussing culture under … | Lori Fox | 26 | 2022 | $2.60 Add |
From ![]() PrefaceFrom: Curing Affluenza |
The preface from author Richard Denniss. | Richard Denniss | 5 | 2018 | $0.50 Add |
From ![]() Tectonic ShiftFrom: Shift Change |
This chapter describes Hamilton as it once was: foundries belching iron oxide into the atmosphere, traffic jams driven by shift changes at factories, and workers toiling at all hours of the day … | Stephen Dale | 25 | 2021 | $2.50 Add |
From ![]() NEW! The Journey to Change for GoodIntroduction From: Change for Good |
Paul Klein | 16 | 2022 | $1.60 Add | |
From ![]() Boom, Bust, and a Double-Sided Bohemian RenaissanceFrom: Shift Change |
This chapter surveys some of the attempts to develop and revitalize Hamilton’s downtown core. Although the initial efforts were unsuccessful, a few optimists valiantly plotted … | Stephen Dale | 48 | 2021 | $4.80 Add |
From ![]() NEW! Change for Good TodayChapter 1 From: Change for Good |
Chapter 1 focuses on why businesses today need to deliver value to consumers at the same time as helping to solve social problems. Based on Klein’s own experience helping businesses improve … | Paul Klein | 21 | 2022 | $2.10 Add |
From ![]() NEW! Creatures of Impossible and Tremendous Beauty |
In “Creatures of Impossible and Tremendous Beauty” the author recounts their experiences with femininity and being “like a girl.” Discussing childhood expectations and … | Lori Fox | 19 | 2022 | $1.90 Add |
From ![]() Diagnosing the DiseaseFrom: Curing Affluenza |
Chapter 1 focuses on defining or diagnosing ‘affluenza’, discussing topics including environmental destruction, global inequality, culture of wasteful materialism, technological … | Richard Denniss | 26 | 2018 | $2.60 Add |
From ![]() A Good Dose of Materialism Helps a Bad Case of AffluenzaFrom: Curing Affluenza |
Chapter 2 examines our current culture of convenience, discussing topics including consuming and producing, credit cards and credit card debt, consumerism (the love of buying things) verses … | Richard Denniss | 27 | 2018 | $2.70 Add |
From ![]() NEW! Change for Good HistoryChapter 2 From: Change for Good |
Chapter 2 explores the motivations businesses have in social policy and philanthropy. The chapter explores topics including Quaker capitalism, the Trump presidency, the origins of the … | Paul Klein | 22 | 2022 | $2.20 Add |
From ![]() The "Creative Class" Creates a Global Urban ClashFrom: Shift Change |
In this chapter, the author examines the relationship between Hamilton and Toronto, and how these two once-divided cities are now closely intertwined. The chapter also explores gentrification in … | Stephen Dale | 53 | 2021 | $5.30 Add |
From ![]() NEW! The Happy Family Game |
In “The Happy Family Game” the author reflects on their relationship with their family. Discussing the idea of a ‘happy family’, the nuclear family, family under … | Lori Fox | 21 | 2022 | $2.10 Add |