Class, Inequality & Oppression
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() An Economy of Well-BeingCommon-sense tools for building genuine wealth and happiness |
In the face of political, financial, and environmental upheaval, it’s difficult to slow down and build lives of mindfulness and joy. These things are within reach, but how can we go about … | Mark Anielski | 242 | 2018 | View |
![]() Beyond SheltersSolutions to Homelessness in Canada from the Front Lines |
This book offers essays by experienced shelter managers who address the future of the homeless shelter in Canada. This diverse collection includes contributions by leaders in the homelessness … | 256 | View | ||
![]() Black CopMy 36 years in police work, and my career-ending experiences with official racism |
Calvin Lawrence became a cop at age twenty. He was recruited by the Halifax police department at a time of heightened racial tension in the city. From the start, some fellow African Canadians … | Calvin Lawrence; Miles Howe | 272 | 2019 | View |
![]() NEW! Border and RuleMigration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism |
In Border and Rule, one of North America’s foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching examination of migration as a pillar of global governance and gendered … | Harsha Walia | 320 | 2021 | View |
![]() NEW! Capitalism and DispossessionCorporate Canada at Home and Abroad |
This edited collection brings together a broad range of case studies to highlight the role of Canadian corporations in producing, deepening and exacerbating conditions of dispossession both at … | David P. Thomas; Veldon Coburn | 289 | 2022 | View |
![]() Cops, Crime and CapitalismThe Law-and-Order Agenda in Canada |
Framed within a Marxist class analysis that highlights the way in which state power and capitalist social relations are racialized and gendered, Gordon’s study locates law and order … | Todd Gordon | 175 | 2006 | View |
![]() NEW! Critical Perspectives on Social Control and Social Regulation in Canada |
How does social regulation shape who is “deviant” and who is “normal”? Critical Perspectives on Social Control and Social Regulation in Canada is an introduction to the … | Carolyn Brooks; James Popham; Mitch D. Daschuk | 512 | 2020 | View |
![]() Decolonizing AcademiaPoverty, Oppression, and Pain |
Poetic, confrontational and radical, Decolonizing Academia speaks to those who have been taught to doubt themselves because of the politics of censorship, violence and silence that sustain the … | Clelia O. Rodríguez | 148 | 2019 | View |
![]() NEW! Decolonizing Equity |
Institutions everywhere seem to be increasingly aware of their roles in settler colonialism and anti-Black racism. As such, many racialized workers find themselves tasked with developing equity … | Billie Allan; OmiSoore Dryden; V.C. Rhonda Hackett | 225 | 2022 | View |
![]() NEW! DividedPopulism, Polarization, and Power in the New Saskatchewan |
Divided looks at the last fifteen years in Saskatchewan, during which time the Saskatchewan Party government sought to reforge the province’s image into the New Saskatchewan: brash, … | Cora Sellers; JoAnn Jaffe; Patricia W. Elliot | 352 | 2021 | View |
![]() Experiencing Difference |
Difference is a fundamental aspect of our human existence. This anthology emerges from the editor’s attempts to navigate the complex, variable and unpredictable materiality of difference. … | Carl E. James | 333 | 2012 | View |
![]() NEW! 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 |
![]() Health and WealthHow Social and Economic Factors Affect Our Well-Being |
This book looks at the well-known link between social equality and the health and well-being of a country’s population, with a Canadian perspective and using Canadian data. As of 1999, when … | 136 | View | ||
![]() How Societies WorkClass, Power, and Change |
In 2011, protesters around the world – including Canada – called for changes to the societies in which they live. Many observers were asking: “What do they want?” Some … | Joanne Naiman | 367 | 2012 | View |
![]() NEW! IneligbleSingle Mothers Under Welfare Surveillance |
While the poor have always been monitored and surveilled by the state when seeking financial support, the methods, techniques, and capacity for surveillance within and across government … | Krys Maki | 224 | 2021 | View |
![]() NEW! Making Sense of SocietyPower and Possibility |
Grounded in the sister disciplines of sociology and anthropology, this textbook is an accessible and critical introduction to contemporary social research. Alex Khasnabish eschews the common … | Alex Khasnabish | 273 | 2022 | View |