Labour Movement
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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 Climate@Work |
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 FreedomThe Life of a Migrant Worker in Canada |
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 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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From  Introduction |
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: Climate@Work |
- | Carla Lipsig-Mummé | 3 | 2013 | $0.30 Add |
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From 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! PrefaceFrom: Harvesting Freedom |
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 |
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From 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: Climate@Work |
- | Elizabeth Perry | 10 | 2013 | $1.00 Add |
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From NEW! Part 1A Child of History From: Harvesting Freedom |
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 |
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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 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 |
