Community Development
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() Agrarian Change, Migration and DevelopmentAgrarian Change & Peasant Studies |
The focus and concern of Agrarian Change, Migration and Development is the problem of labour migration. Veltmeyer and Wise explore the dynamics and development implications of the migration … | Henry Veltmeyer; Raúl Delgado Wise | 160 | 2016 | View |
![]() NEW! Alexa!Changing the Face of Canadian Politics |
Alexa McDonough’s impact on Canadian politics cannot be measured solely by election victories or seat tallies. As the first female leader of a mainstream Canadian political party, she … | Stephen Kimber | 288 | 2021 | View |
![]() Catch the FireAn Art-Full Guide to Unleashing the Creative Power of Youth, Adults and Communities |
Community, youth, non-profit, education, entrepreneurial, and religious organizations all have exciting ambitions, but they often lack the creative skills to impact people on a deep level. Catch … | Charlie Murphy; Peggy Taylor | 322 | 2014 | View |
![]() NEW! Critical Social Work Praxis |
What we think must inform what we do, argue the editors and authors of this cutting-edge social work textbook. In this innovative, expansive and wide-ranging collection, leading social work … | Brenda Anne-Marie LeFrançois; Sobia Shaheen Shaikh; Teresa Macías | 592 | 2022 | View |
![]() Fight to WinInside Poor People’s Organizing |
AJ Withers draws on their own experiences as an organizer, extensive interviews with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) activists and Toronto bureaucrats, and freedom of information … | A. J. Withers | 305 | 2021 | View |
![]() Flying Fish in the Great White NorthThe Autonomous Migration of Black Barbadians |
Canadians are proud of their multicultural image both at home and abroad. But that image isn’t grounded in historical facts. As recently as the 1960s, the Canadian government enforced … | Christopher Stuart Taylor | 223 | 2016 | View |
![]() Immigration and the Legalization of Racism |
“The chameleon-like nature of the law-the duplicitous ways in which the law is written, the equivocal way in which it is stated and, therefore, talked about, the hiding of the truth about … | Lisa Marie Jakubowski | 103 | 1996 | View |
![]() NEW! ReboundSports, Community, and the Inclusive City |
“The virus exposed how we live and work. It also revealed how we play, and what we lose when we have to stop. ” For every kid who makes it to the NBA, thousands more seek out the … | Perry King | 169 | 2021 | View |
![]() Seeking Mino-PimatisiwinAn Aboriginal Approach to Helping |
Historically, social work and psychology professions have pressured and coerced Aboriginal peoples to follow the euro-centric ways of society. The needs of Aboriginal peoples have not been … | Michael Anthony Hart | 128 | 2002 | View |
![]() Shift ChangeScenes from a Post-industrial Revolution |
Hamilton’s industrial age is over. In the steel capital of Canada, there are no more skies lit red by foundries at sunset, no more traffic jams at shift change. Instead, an urban … | Stephen Dale | 252 | 2021 | View |
From ![]() Controlling Immigration: “Race” and Canadian Immigration Law and Policy FormationIntroduction |
- | Lisa Marie Jakubowski | 13 | 1996 | $1.30 Add |
From ![]() Fighting to WinPower and Poor People’s Organizing From: Fight to Win |
This chapter introduces Ontario Coalition Against Poverty’s mass mobilization strategies and individual casework as organizing principles. The role of casework as a dual activist strategy … | A. J. Withers | 22 | 2021 | $2.20 Add |
From ![]() Introduction |
- | Henry Veltmeyer; Raúl Delgado Wise | 14 | 2016 | $1.40 Add |
From ![]() IntroductionFrom: Learning to Leave |
- | Michael Corbett | 34 | 2007 | $3.40 Add |
From ![]() Introduction |
- | Christopher Stuart Taylor | 13 | 2016 | $1.30 Add |
From ![]() IntroductionFrom: Catch the Fire |
Readings in section 1 of this title explore the arts as an overlooked force for positive social change, and provides real-world examples of the application of a Creative Community Model. This … | Charlie Murphy; Peggy Taylor | 8 | 2014 | $0.80 Add |