Women
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 Labour in Canada Cracking Labour’s Glass CeilingTransforming Lives Through Women's Unison Education |
Although the health of the trade union movement may rest on its ability to include women in membership and leadership, little attention has been paid to women-only labour education. This original … | Adriane Paavo; Cindy Hanson; Sisters in Labour Education | 144 | 2019 | View |
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From Introduction Union Women’s Learning |
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From Facilitation Training for Union WomenThe Saskatchewan Experience |
Chapter One discusses course facilitation at the Prairie School for Union Women. Adriane and Barb have both designed and led facilitation-training courses at the school, and their passion and … | Adriane Paavo; Barb Thomas | 10 | 2019 | $1.00 Add |
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From Feminism and TransformationThe Prairie School for Union Women |
Cindy joins Adriane to descibe two community-based participatory action research projects they initiated with the Prairie School for Union Women’s Steering Committee. The first project … | Adriane Paavo; Cindy Hanson | 11 | 2019 | $1.10 Add |
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From Union Women on Turtle IslandA Conversation |
Chapter Three explores the voices of Indigenous women who facilitated the course Union Women on Turtle Island. Cindy conducts an interview with Sandra Ahenekew and Yvonne Hotzak, who describe how … | Cindy Hanson; Sandra Ahenekew; Yvonne Hotzak | 9 | 2019 | $0.90 Add |
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From Confronting Limits, Pushing BoundariesLGBTQ Education and Activism |
Donna Smith takes a reflective stance on her work in labour education as a lesbian woman. She explains the history of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer activism in the labour movement … | Donna Smith | 8 | 2019 | $0.80 Add |
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From The WallReflections on a Workshop Methodology |
Chapter Five is a retrospective on The Wall methodology by Bev Burke and Suzanne Doerge, long-time social-movement eduators who created the methodology to empower women to take action on … | Bev Burke; Suzanne Doerge | 19 | 2019 | $1.90 Add |
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From  Work and Human Dignity |
Addresses the idea that basic income will de-incentivize paid work, while challenging the notion that paid work is superior to other forms of work such as caregiving/child rearing. | Evelyn L. Forget | 19 | 2018 | $1.90 Add |
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From Regina V. Polk Women’s Labor Leadership ConferenceWhole Body, Whole-life Struggle |
In Chapter 6 Helena Worthen, now a retired professor from the University of Illinois Labor Education Program, discusses the Regina V. Polk Women’s Labor Leadership Conference, which she … | Helena Worthen | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
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From  The Dominant Breast Cancer Causation ParadigmChallenging it Through the Lens of Media Discourses From: Sick and Tired |
Key Moments in Breast Cancer News The Propaganda Model and Critical Discourse Analysis A Paradigm Shift in the Discourses? Conclusions and Discussion | Jane McArthur | 11 | 2018 | $1.10 Add |
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From Women and Basic Income |
Discusses the positive impact basic income would have on women, including the ability to leave abusive relationships without fear of crippling poverty and compensation for unpaid work. Critiques … | Evelyn L. Forget | 16 | 2018 | $1.60 Add |
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From Between a Rock and a Hard PlaceMaking Occupational Health Compatible with Gender Equality |
Gender and Sex Segregation at Work Other Gendered Characteristics of Working Life Gendered Division of Occupational Health Effects Risks in Work Usually Assigned to Women Risks Associated with … | Karen Messing | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add |
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From Wild in MassachusettsLeadership Development for a Changing Labour Movement |
Dale Melcher, Tess Ewing and Susan Winning, labour educators based at the University of Massachusetts, examine best practices and challenges of the Women’s Institute for Leadership … | Dale Melcher; Susan Winning; Tess Ewing | 18 | 2019 | $1.80 Add |
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From Immigrant Men’s and Women’s Occupational HealthQuestioning the Myths From: Sick and Tired |
The Myth of the Uneducated Immigrants The Myth of the Unhealthy Immigrants The Myth of the Unsafe Immigrants From Careless Workers to Vulnerable Workers Conclusions | Stephanie Premji | 12 | 2018 | $1.20 Add |
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From Leaders for TomorrowPutting Diverse Leadership in ETFO |
Chapter Eight, by Carol Zavitz, with staff in the Equality and Women’s Services department at the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario, describes the structure and analyzes the … | Carol Zavitz | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
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From Women Breaking BarriersUsing Education to Develop Women's Leadership Inside Canada's Largest Union |
In Chapter 9, Morna Ballantyne and Jane Stinson, retired national staff with the Canadian Union of Public Employees, discuss Women Breaking Barriers, the leadership program for women activists … | Jane Stinson; Morna Ballantyne | 18 | 2019 | $1.80 Add |
