Social Policy

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! Change for Good An Action-Oriented Approach for Businesses to Benefit from Solving the World’s Most Urgent Social Problems ECW Press	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 Affluenza How to Buy Less Stuff and Save the World Between The Lines	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
NEW! Shift Change Scenes from a Post-industrial Revolution Between The Lines	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 War The Radicalization of a Working-Class Queer Arsenal Pulp Press	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 Preface From: Curing Affluenza Preview Between The Lines	The preface from author Richard Denniss.	Richard Denniss	5	2018	$0.50 Add
From NEW! Tectonic Shift From: Shift Change Preview Between The Lines	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 Good Introduction From: Change for Good Preview ECW Press	-	Paul Klein	16	2022	$1.60 Add
From NEW! Boom, Bust, and a Double-Sided Bohemian Renaissance From: Shift Change Preview Between The Lines	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 Today Chapter 1 From: Change for Good Preview ECW Press	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 Diagnosing the Disease From: Curing Affluenza Preview Between The Lines	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 Affluenza From: Curing Affluenza Preview Between The Lines	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 History Chapter 2 From: Change for Good Preview ECW Press	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 NEW! The "Creative Class" Creates a Global Urban Clash From: Shift Change Preview Between The Lines	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! A Blue-Collar Legacy – for Better and for Worse From: Shift Change Preview Between The Lines	This chapter examines the dual nature of Hamilton, and poses key questions about the city. Can history be the basis for a roadmap forward? Are there unique aspects of Hamilton’s past that …	Stephen Dale	49	2021	$4.90 Add
From NEW! Change for Good Employees Chapter 3 From: Change for Good Preview ECW Press	Chapter 3 provides examples of how businesses are partnering with their employees in meaningful ways to bring about positive change, alongside some of Klein’s own experiences in building …	Paul Klein	19	2022	$1.90 Add
From Lighten Up From: Curing Affluenza Preview Between The Lines	Chapter 3 explores productivity between the public and private sectors, discussing topics including wasted resources, ‘economic activity’, cycles of production, the ‘Washington …	Richard Denniss	41	2018	$4.10 Add

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