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October 2020: Migrant Workers and COVID-19

From: Spin Doctors

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This chapter focuses on how Covid-19 impacted migrant workers in Canada. Loreto discuss the work and living conditions of various farms in Canada during Covid-19, as well as how the government … 23 $2.30 Add
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Of Resources and Constitutions:

The Rising of the New West

From: The Rise of the New West

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1960s absence of general economic diversification causes the west to open their provinces to virtually unrestricted resource development. 1970s, the resource economy is not working and the west … 40 $4.00 Add
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Oil and Gas Development in Russia and Northern Indigenous Peoples

From: Russia and the North

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This chapter discusses some of the current problems in the relationships between the northern indigenous peoples of Russia, oil and gas developers and governmental structures. These … 16 $1.92 Add
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Oil and the deep state

From: Oil’s Deep State

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Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft analyzes how an economy heavily dependent on oil production sets the stage for a deep state with examples from around the world. 10 $1.00 Add
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Origins and Development of Sexual Work in the United States and Britain

From: Beyond the Periphery of the Skin

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In this chapter, feminist scholar Silvia Federici explores sexual work as a component of capitalism. She suggests that capitalist systems seek to establish sex and reproduction as a utilitarian … 17 $1.70 Add
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Planning Smart Cities

The Dream of the Smart City

From: Dream States

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The Dream of the Smart City: Part 3 explores planning smart cities. Topics discussed include transportation, census data,  what is meant by urban ‘blight’, public and city … 15 $1.50 Add
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Plutocracy Awaits Us

From: Canada after Harper

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Linda McQuaig tells us how the inequality generated by “free market” policies has widened the gap between Canada’s ultra-rich and most other Canadians. 6 $0.60 Add
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Positive Adaption in Adversity

From: Staying Alive While Living The Life

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Power-with and Power-from-within

From: Are We Done Fighting?

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The author describes characteristics of power-with, and offers tips on how it can be recognized and developed in different contexts. The chapter concludes with the introduction of a third type of … 14 $1.40 Add
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Precarious Employment and Occupational Health and Safety in Ontario

From: Boom, Bust and Crisis

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Principal Purdie Objects

Canadian Pentecostal Students and Conscription during the Second World War

From: Worth Fighting For

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Progress

From: Israel, A Beachhead in the Middle East

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Chapter Eight focuses on the progress being made by Third World countries in the United Nations General Assembly as they began to overthrow the virtual monopoly of First World countries with … 12 $1.20 Add
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Putting Multi-Jurisdictional Impact Assessment into Action Under the Impact Assessment Act

From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment

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This chapter reviews, explains, and assesses traditional approaches to address Multi-jurisdictional Impact Assessment (MJIA) in order to place and evaluate the methods set out in the Impact … ; 29 $2.90 Add
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Rebuilding the alternatives Southern-style

From: SOS

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Chapter 7 explores the ongoing projects to reinvent ’21st-century socialism’, discussing what is 21st-century socialism, the Global South, defending and expanding the commons, the … 24 $2.40 Add
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Reconciliation with Indigenous ghosts: On the politics of postcolonial ghost stories

From: Home and Native Land

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Considers how postcolonial ghost stories – stories that use the figure of the Indigenous ghost to make sense of colonial and postcolonial relations – incorporate the tensions, … 17 $1.70 Add
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Reforming the UN

An injection of cash

From: The United Nations in the 21st Century

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This chapter investigates needed reforms for the organization. 6 $0.60 Add