Labour Relations
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From Just-in-Time Workers for Just-in-Time Distribution |
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 | 2012 | $1.10 Add |
From AfterwordLooking Back on A Moment of Truth: An International Perspective From: A New Kind of Union |
Economist and union activist Jim Stanford looks back on Canada’s union movement since 2011 and how Canadian labour fares compared to other countries with the use of key graphs and statistics. | Jim Stanford | 22 | 2019 | $2.20 Add |
From The Gig Is Up |
This chapter is a small love note to the iwc (Immigrant Workers Centre) for always being willing to experiment to find new ways to build leadership and solidarity. It’s difficult for unions … | Mostafa Henaway | 10 | 2012 | $1.00 Add |
From New Forms of Organizing |
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 | 2012 | $1.90 Add |
From Migrant Organizing on the New Fault Lines of Global Capitalism |
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 | 2012 | $1.40 Add |
From Migrant Workers Fight for the Entire Working Class |
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 | 2012 | $1.20 Add |
From Striking for Status |
This chapter describes why undocumented migrants’ struggles for status are fundamentally about workers’ rights. In certain moments, like 2006 and 2017 in the US and 2008 in France, … | Mostafa Henaway | 10 | 2012 | $1.00 Add |
From The Pogey DilemmaFrom: Equal as Citizens |
1990s. Focuses on the relationship between provinces and the Federal Unemployment Insurance Program, looks at an attack on fisherman who applied for UI because it was felt seasonal workers did … | Richard Starr | 17 | 2014 | $1.70 Add |
From The Long Struggle for Status |
This chapter is an effort to convey the urgency of permanent status for migrants. The chapter examines the campaigns of self-organized migrants who have constructed communities of struggle that … | Mostafa Henaway | 16 | 2012 | $1.60 Add |
From Conclusion: Freedom of Movement for People, Not Capital |
In the conclusion to this book, Heneway discusses capitalism as an economic system, and once again breaks down the impact of globalization on trade and labour. | Mostafa Henaway | 10 | 2012 | $1.00 Add |