Labour Movement

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Climate@Work Fernwood Publishing	Climate@Work addresses this deficit by systematically tackling the question of the impact of climate change on work and employment and by analyzing Canada’s conservative silence towards …	Carla Lipsig-Mummé	200	2013	View
NEW! Harvesting Freedom The Life of a Migrant Worker in Canada Between The Lines	In this singular firsthand account, a former migrant worker reveals a disturbing system of exploitation at the heart of Canada’s farm labour system. When Gabriel Allahdua applied to the …	Edward Dunsworth; Gabriel Allahdua	224	2023	View
Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada 2nd ed. Fernwood Publishing	In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the need to re-establish the labour movement’s political capacity to exert collective power in ways that foster greater opportunity and equality for …	Larry Savage; Stephanie Ross	240	2021	View
NEW! Solidarity Beyond Bars Unionizing Prison Labour Fernwood Publishing	Prisons don’t work, but prisoners do. Prisons are often critiqued as unjust, but we hear little about the daily labour of incarcerated workers — what they do, how they do it, who they …	Asaf Rashid; Jordan House	180	2022	View
From Introduction From: The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History View James Lorimer and Company	Uses fictional names to exemplify the particular movements that the book discusses. A short concise history of the labour movement in Canada and what we need to understand about it in the social …	Craig Heron	13	2012	$1.30 Add
From NEW! Introduction Prison Labour and Punishment From: Solidarity Beyond Bars View Fernwood Publishing	The Introduction "Prison Labour and Publishment" discusses the current state of Canadian prisons and lives of its prisoners, the idea of “rehabilitation," prison labour …	Asaf Rashid; Jordan House	14	2022	$1.40 Add
From Introduction From: Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada View Fernwood Publishing	From growing levels of income and wealth inequality in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic to capital’s consistent ability to tame governments willing to reject neoliberal imperatives; from …	Larry Savage; Stephanie Ross	13	2021	$1.30 Add
From Introduction From: Climate@Work View Fernwood Publishing		Carla Lipsig-Mummé	3	2013	$0.30 Add
From NEW! Preface From: Harvesting Freedom View Between The Lines	Included in the preface is the poem I Am Many Things as well as the details of Gabriel Allahdua’s early life in St.Lucia. The preface also discusses the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program …	Edward Dunsworth	13	2023	$1.30 Add
From Canadian Labour and COVID-19 From: Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada View Fernwood Publishing	Only by tearing down the false division between political and economic spheres and questioning the legitimacy of a capitalist economic system that continues to prioritize profits over people …	Larry Savage; Stephanie Ross	15	2021	$1.50 Add
From Changing Patterns in the Literature of Climate Change and Canadian Work The Research of Academics, Government and Social Actors From: Climate@Work View Fernwood Publishing		Elizabeth Perry	10	2013	$1.00 Add
From NEW! Part 1 A Child of History From: Harvesting Freedom View Between The Lines	Part 1 discusses Gabriel Allahdua life in Mabouya Valley, St. Lucia, including his family life, education, his interest in agriculture, early career as a teacher, and time in Guyana. Part 1 also …	Edward Dunsworth; Gabriel Allahdua	55	2023	$5.50 Add
From The Craftworkers’ Challenge From: The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History View James Lorimer and Company	We meet the first movement of organized craftworkers beginning to take shape in the mid-nineteenth century in response to the new capitalist organization of work and labour markets. By the end of …	Craig Heron	27	2012	$2.70 Add
From NEW! Why Care About Prisoners’ Labour Rights? From: Solidarity Beyond Bars View Fernwood Publishing	Chapter One focuses on providing a broad overview of the Canadian prison system. The chapter explains why people should care about prisoners’ rights and specifically prisoners’ labour …	Asaf Rashid; Jordan House	32	2022	$3.20 Add
From NEW! All Work and (Almost) No Pay From: Solidarity Beyond Bars View Fernwood Publishing	Chapter Two maps out prison labour in Canada. Covering institutional labour and prison industry programs, prison labour in the federal system and provincial systems, the issues of low wages, lack …	Asaf Rashid; Jordan House	30	2022	$3.00 Add
From Business Unionism and Social Unionism in Theory and Practice From: Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada View Fernwood Publishing	Recognizing the coexistence of historicized ideal types of both “business unionism” and “social unionism” in the labour movement in general, and specifically within unions …	Stephanie Ross	18	2021	$1.80 Add