Labour Relations

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Hollow Work, Hollow Society? Globalization and the Casual Labour Problem in Canada Fernwood Publishing	More and more people in Canada and other Western countries are now working at part-time, short-term and other casual jobs. People are now asking: What happened to full-time employment? Why is …	Dave Broad	112	2000	View
From NEW! Into a New Century, 2000-09 From: Leading Progess View Between The Lines	This chapter describes how the PIPSC dealt with issues in the first decade of the 2000s, including Y2K and the globalization of computer systems, the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the Canadian war …	Jason Russell	29	2020	$2.90 Add
From Canada’s Union From: A New Kind of Union View James Lorimer and Company	Documents the immediate effect Unifor had on Canadian labour after its founding in 2013. Provides a brief overview of Unifor’s policies and how they affected Canadian labour and politics, …	Fred Wilson	63	2019	$6.30 Add
From NEW! Introduction From: Leading Progess View Between The Lines		Jason Russell	7	2020	$0.70 Add
From Just-in-Time Workers for Just-in-Time Distribution From: Essential Work Disposable Workers View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter focuses on how the rise of just-in-time distribution, a sector of growing importance to global capitalism, has been fuelled with the rise of just-in-time employment — meaning a …	Mostafa Henaway	11	2023	$1.10 Add
From Keeping Global Capitalism Afloat From: Essential Work Disposable Workers View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter examines how remittances play a crucial role within global capitalism. Remittances reinforce a pattern of migration from the Global South to the North, increasingly necessary for …	Mostafa Henaway	9	2023	$0.90 Add
NEW! Leading Progess The Professional Institute of the Public Service Canada, 1920–2020 Between The Lines	On February 6, 1920, a small group of public service employees met for the first time to form a professional association. A century later, the Professional Institute of the Public Service Canada …	Jason Russell	272	2020	View
From Managing Migration From: Essential Work Disposable Workers View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter examines how, since 2006, Canada has constructed an immigration regime that centres temporary migrant labour — the ideal immigration regime in service of global capitalism. Canada’s …	Mostafa Henaway	13	2023	$1.30 Add
From Migrant Organizing on the New Fault Lines of Global Capitalism From: Essential Work Disposable Workers View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter illustrates how new unions and worker centres emerged to successfully organize in global cities like Toronto, New York and London and within the chokepoints of logistics hubs for …	Mostafa Henaway	14	2023	$1.40 Add
From Migrant Workers Fight for the Entire Working Class From: Essential Work Disposable Workers View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter is about how migrant and racialized worker organizations took leadership in broad-based campaigns to improve conditions for the entire working class. As one example, the chapter …	Mostafa Henaway	12	2023	$1.20 Add
From NEW! Myths about the Tenant Class From: The Tenant Class View Between The Lines	Ricardo examines societal perceptions of the average Canadian who rents property. Ricardo discusses home ownership as a staple of successful life in Canadian society and the cultural stigma …	Ricardo Tranjan	14	2023	$1.40 Add
From Neoliberal Migration Takes Hold From: Essential Work Disposable Workers View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter focuses on four countries in the Global South to illustrate how the implementation of neoliberal policies has not led to development but has turned them into major labour-exporting …	Mostafa Henaway	15	2023	$1.50 Add
From New Forms of Organizing From: Essential Work Disposable Workers View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter describes how worker centres emerged as a new model of organizing migrant workers in response to the sweeping global economic transformations of neoliberalism, described in the first …	Mostafa Henaway	19	2023	$1.90 Add
From NEW! Nothing Can Be Taken for Granted, 1990-1999 From: Leading Progess View Between The Lines	In this chapter, Russell details how PIPSC addressed the ideological changes of the 1990s, including a rightward shift in the Canadian political landscape, the growth of neoliberal policies, and …	Jason Russell	39	2020	$3.90 Add
From Precarious Work Requires Precarious Workers From: Essential Work Disposable Workers View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter specifically follows the rise of temporary placement agencies as a tool of employers to utilize undocumented, precarious and racialized migrants for capital. The shift from …	Mostafa Henaway	12	2023	$1.20 Add
From NEW! Starting as Professionals, 1920-1969 From: Leading Progess View Between The Lines	In this chapter, the author discusses how the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada emerged and changed along with Canada during its first fifty years, when major external and …	Jason Russell	27	2020	$2.70 Add