Political Activism
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From  NEW! Chapter 22: Crisis, Politics, Colonized PeoplesFirst Nations and Métis in the 1930s |
This chapter examines how during the 1930s Indigenous Peoples suffered enormous poverty, disease and tuberculosis, coercive laws and intensified efforts at assimilation through institutions such … | Bryan D. Palmer | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 24: The Welfare State’s 1940s Origins |
This chapter details how the hardship of the Depression led to increased demands for a welfare state and how Mackenzie King’s Liberals retreated from implementing such a program. | Bryan D. Palmer | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 6: Urbanization and Immigration, 1890-1929 |
This chapter looks at urban growth between 1901 and 1931, during which immigrant workers experienced widening wage gaps, slum conditions, and extreme inequality in access to public-health. | Bryan D. Palmer | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From  ChronologyFrom: In Defiance |
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois; Lazer Lederhendler | 7 | 2015 | $0.70 Add | |
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From  Civil DisobedienceFrom: Languages of the Unheard |
this chapter explores the paradox of civil disobedience—its law-respecting legal defiance—and the ethical concerns that this paradox raises. | Stephen D'Arcy | 15 | 2013 | $1.50 Add |
 NEW! Class ActionHow Ontario's Elementary Teachers Became a Political Force |
In this inspiring history of a union, labour historian Andy Hanson delves deep into the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) and how it evolved from two deeply divided unions … | Andy Hanson | 276 | 2021 | View |
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From  Class, Party, StateThe Twentieth-Century Socialist Experience |
Leo Panitch; Sam Gindin | 11 | 2020 | $1.10 Add | |
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From Collective HysteriaFrom: In Defiance |
Conflicting attitudes from mainstream media towards the strike and students. | Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois; Lazer Lederhendler | 12 | 2015 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Collective Movement, Collective PowerPeople of Colour, Migrant Justice, and the G20 From: Whose Streets? |
Syed Hussan | 9 | 2011 | $0.90 Add | |
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From  Communicate, Communicate . . .From: Fighting Dirty |
The story of Jeff Whan, retired IBM executive and anti-dump activist. | Poh-Gek Forkert | 9 | 2017 | $0.90 Add |
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From Community Organizing for a Global ProtestFrom: Whose Streets? |
How the Ontario Coalition against Poverty prepared for the G20 demonstrations. | Mac Scott | 6 | 2011 | $0.60 Add |
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From  ConclusionIn the Face of Disaster, the Strategy of the 99 Percent From: Ecology for the 99% |
This section outlines key strategies for addressing the climate crisis, showing how the tactics discussed throughout the book work together to advance coordinated action and climate justice. | Alain Savard; Arnaud Theurillat-Cloutier; Charles Simard; Clément de Gaulejac; Frédéric Legault | 24 | 2024 | $2.40 Add |
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From Conclusion |
Leo Panitch; Sam Gindin | 8 | 2020 | $0.80 Add | |
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From  Conclusion: All-In for All Life |
The author concludes the book with closing thoughts on the climate emergency. | Margaret Klein Salamon; Molly Gage | 21 | 2023 | $2.10 Add |
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From Connecting Carceral SpacesReflecting on Summit Detention From: Whose Streets? |
Swathi Sekhar | 7 | 2011 | $0.70 Add | |
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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 |
