Labour Movement

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Introduction From: Climate@Work View Fernwood Publishing		Carla Lipsig-Mummé	3	2013	$0.30 Add
From Labour at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century From: The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History View James Lorimer and Company	Canadian Unions had a rough ride over the decade and a half after the mid-1990s The state and business initiatives that had sapped labour’s strength continued and had forced the labour …	Craig Heron	23	2012	$2.30 Add
From Labour’s Role in Opposing the G20 Building Resistance to Austerity From: Whose Streets? View Between The Lines		Archana Rampure	12	2011	$1.20 Add
From Movement Building From: Getting to Zero View James Lorimer and Company	Discusses how a major, well organized social movement demanding climate justice is required for a meaningful response from corporations and government. Identifies how this can be achieved and …	Tony Clarke	25	2018	$2.50 Add
From NEW! Optimism of the Will There Is an Alternative From: Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada's Challenge View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter considers what is needed to counter neoliberalism and comments on the positive signs of the rise in union activity and the common cause of diverse grassroots movements in advocating …	Alex Himelfarb	22	2024	$2.20 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 NEW! Part 2 A Migrant Farm Worker From: Harvesting Freedom View Between The Lines	Part 2 discusses Gabriel Allahdua’s time working in a greenhouse in Leamington, Ontario, the "migrant farm worker capital of Canada", including the intense workplace conditions, …	Edward Dunsworth; Gabriel Allahdua	61	2023	$6.10 Add
From NEW! Part 3 Status for All From: Harvesting Freedom View Between The Lines	Part 3 details Gabriel Allahdua’s activist work against the injustices that migrant workers experience in Canada. Part 3 also explained Allahdua’s process of leaving the program and …	Edward Dunsworth; Gabriel Allahdua	37	2023	$3.70 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 Rebuilding the House of Labour From: The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History View James Lorimer and Company	Presents the internal pressures and new dilemmas facing the labour movement today	Craig Heron	29	2012	$2.90 Add
NEW! Solidarity Beyond Bars Unionizing 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 …		180		View
From NEW! “Sweat the Evil Out” The Evolution of Canadian Prison Labour From: Solidarity Beyond Bars View Fernwood Publishing	Chapter Four places the contemporary Canadian prison system into a historical context. This chapter examines the role of prison labour in the founding of the Canadian prison system, how prison …	Asaf Rashid; Jordan House	23	2022	$2.30 Add
From NEW! The Case for Prisoners’ Labour Unions From: Solidarity Beyond Bars View Fernwood Publishing	Chapter Six takes up the question of prisoners’ unions in more detail and looks to actual examples/past experiments in unionization. This chapter discusses the successful unionization of …	Asaf Rashid; Jordan House	35	2022	$3.50 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 The Forest Industry From: Climate@Work View Fernwood Publishing		John Holmes	17	2013	$1.70 Add
From The Giant Tamed From: The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History View James Lorimer and Company	Explores the slow, uphill battle to shake the solid hegemony of Canadian employers in industrial life in the two decades between the wars and then the breakthrough that took place at the end of …	Craig Heron	27	2012	$2.70 Add