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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From NEW! Constructing Public EducationFrom: Class Action |
In Constructing Public Education, Hanson provides a history of education in Canada, tracing the evolution of educational institutions and their systems and looking at how educators were trained … | Andy Hanson | 37 | 2021 | $3.70 Add |
From Counterplanning from the KitchenFrom: Patriarchy of the Wage |
This chapter responds to recent attacks on Wages for Housework, exploring feminism, capitalism, and marxism. It touches on topics such as the glorification of the family and unpaid labour, … | Silvia Federici | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
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 |
From Introduction |
An introduction by the author that outlines the goals of and context for this book. | Marilyse Hamelin | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add |
From Kicking was the Whole PointFrom: Rock Paper Sex |
The firsthand account of a young sex worker in St. Johns Newfoundland named Lori. The chapter includes a discussion of the factors that lead an individual to becoming a sex worker and includes … | Keri Cull | 8 | 2017 | $0.80 Add |
From PART 1 – Developing the Quebec Cotton IndustryGirls and Women Wanted From: Through the Mill |
This chapter explores the early days of the Quebec cotton textile industry, starting around 1844-78. It covers key figures, companies, and regions of Quebec in this industry’s establishment … | Gail Cuthbert Brandt | 39 | 2018 | $3.90 Add |
From NEW! Part One: Section IThe Good and Bad of Some Earlier Feminist and Left Organizing in the Region |
This reading consists of the following essays: The Angle You Look from Determines What You See: Towards a Critique of Feminist Politics and Organizing in the Caribbean [2002] – The Historic … | Alissa Trotz; Andaiye | 55 | 2020 | $5.50 Add |
From The third hourFrom: Bent out of Shape |
- | Karen Messing | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
From A Textile Industry for New EnglandSECTION ONE - From ships’ captains to captains of industry From: A Distinct Alien Race |
This chapter looks at the global economy and textile industry in different contexts at the beginning of the 19th century, then focuses on Boston specifically. It then looks at "Mill … | David Vermette | 15 | 2018 | $1.50 Add |
From Capital and the LeftFrom: Patriarchy of the Wage |
This chapter focuses on the past and future of the feminist movement, divisions in this movement, and the connection between feminism and socialism. | Silvia Federici | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
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 |
From I Pay Top PriceFrom: Rock Paper Sex |
The firsthand account of a man named mike, who is a engages in the services of sex workers in St. Johns. A discussion of the relationships clients can form with sex workers and the internal … | Keri Cull | 6 | 2017 | $0.60 Add |
From Motherhood and the Job MarketThe Dominion of Discrimination |
This chapter begins to outline the systemic discrimination, wage loss, and job insecurity that women/mothers face in Quebec and beyond, drawing on multiple examples. It critiques the Quebec … | Marilyse Hamelin | 21 | 2018 | $2.10 Add |
From PART 1 – Mill LifeFrom: Through the Mill |
This chapter explores the reality of those who worked in the mills. It covers child labour, the hours for workers, wages, workplace safety, and the issue of abusive foremen for female workers. | Gail Cuthbert Brandt | 32 | 2018 | $3.20 Add |
From NEW! Part One: Section IINotes on the Guyana Indian/African Race Divide, and on Organizing within and against it |
This reading consists of the following essays: 1964: The Rupture of Neighborliness and its Legacy for Indian/African Relations [2008; 2018] (with D. Alissa Trotz) – Organizing within and … | Alissa Trotz; Andaiye | 46 | 2020 | $4.60 Add |
From Shame and silence in health careFrom: Bent out of Shape |
- | Karen Messing | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |