Labour Relations

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Just-in-Time Workers for Just-in-Time Distribution

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

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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 … 11 $1.10 Add
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Looking Back on A Moment of Truth: An International Perspective

From: A New Kind of Union

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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. 22 $2.20 Add
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The Gig Is Up

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

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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 … 10 $1.00 Add
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New Forms of Organizing

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

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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 … 19 $1.90 Add
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Migrant Organizing on the New Fault Lines of Global Capitalism

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

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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 … 14 $1.40 Add
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Migrant Workers Fight for the Entire Working Class

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

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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 … 12 $1.20 Add
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Striking for Status

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

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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, … 10 $1.00 Add
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The Pogey Dilemma

From: Equal as Citizens

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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 … 17 $1.70 Add
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The Long Struggle for Status

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

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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 … 16 $1.60 Add
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Conclusion: Freedom of Movement for People, Not Capital

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

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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. 10 $1.00 Add