Labour Movement
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[email protected] 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! Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada2nd ed. |
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 BarsUnionizing Prison Labour |
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 |
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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 |
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From IntroductionFrom: [email protected] |
- | Carla Lipsig-Mummé | 3 | 2013 | $0.30 Add |
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From NEW! Introduction |
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 |
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From NEW! IntroductionPrison Labour and Punishment From: Solidarity Beyond Bars |
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 |
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From NEW! Canadian Labour and COVID-19 |
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 |
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From Changing Patterns in the Literature of Climate Change and Canadian WorkThe Research of Academics, Government and Social Actors From: [email protected] |
- | Elizabeth Perry | 10 | 2013 | $1.00 Add |
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From The Craftworkers’ Challenge |
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 |
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From NEW! Why Care About Prisoners’ Labour Rights?From: Solidarity Beyond Bars |
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 |
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From NEW! All Work and (Almost) No PayFrom: Solidarity Beyond Bars |
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 |
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From NEW! Business Unionism and Social Unionism in Theory and Practice |
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 |
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From Climate, Work and Labour: The International ContextThe International Context From: [email protected] |
- | Carla Lipsig-Mummé | 20 | 2013 | $2.00 Add |
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From The Workers’ Revolt |
We find a new wave of organization and agitation rolling through the corportate capitalist world of the early 20th century this time involving both revived craft unions and a new more radical … | Craig Heron | 30 | 2012 | $3.00 Add |
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From NEW! Injury, Illness and DeathFrom: Solidarity Beyond Bars |
Chapter Three covers the subject of health and safety in Canadian prisons as it relates to general prison conditions and work. The chapter discusses how prisoners are excluded from health and … | Asaf Rashid; Jordan House | 20 | 2022 | $2.00 Add |
