Class, Inequality & Oppression

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Heron Gate, Racial Stigma, and Strategic Neglect

From: Resisting Eviction

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Chapter 5 offers a profile of Heron Gate Village. Crosbys analyzes statistics on community demographics and housing. With its high concentration of immigrants, refugees, and people of colour, … 17 $1.70 Add
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Inequality from the Bottom Up

From: The Age of Increasing Inequality

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As average incomes increase in a society, many cheap goods become unavailable and the cost of living for poor people rises. Although different poverty line methodologies produce somewhat … 23 $2.30 Add
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Managing Migration

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

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This chapter examines how, since 2006, Canada has constructed an immigration regime that centres temporary migrant labour — the ideal immigration regime in service of global capitalism. … 13 $1.30 Add
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On the Shubenacadie River: The Grassroots Grandmothers and the Fight against Alton Gas

Part One: Dispossession at Home

From: Capitalism and Dispossession

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In Chapter 5, author Ingrid Waldron examines the success of the grassroots activism of the Mi’kmaq grandmothers of the Sipekne’katik First Nation near Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia who … 19 $1.90 Add
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Part 111 The Policy Formation Network

Intersectoral Policy Organizations

From: Ruling Canada

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Race to the bottom

Inequality and poverty

From: Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?

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The fourth chapter of Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? considers the equity and poverty aspects of public transit versus the automobile, asserting that communities that are serious about … 18 $1.80 Add
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Research Methods, Statistics, and Listening to Unheard Voices

From: Critical Perspectives on Social Control and Social Regulation in Canada

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What’s In a Question? – Who’s Being Asked? – “Big Data” Analytics and Their Challenges – Reconciling Statistics with Unheard Voices – Conclusion … 32 $3.20 Add
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School Life

The School Day; Extracurricular Activities; Discipline; Family Visits and Summer Holidays

From: Resistance and Renewal

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The author takes the reader through the residential school life: what a typical day looked like for the children, the discrimination they faced, the regimented learning of religion, subpar food … 50 $2.50 Add
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The Changing Class Structure of Production Relations in the “Knowledge Economy”

From: Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism

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Livingstone offers a brief critical assessment of recent approaches to class analysis and labour process analysis in advanced capitalism. An empirical assessment of continuity and change in this … 51 $5.10 Add
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The Hard Part

The Erasure of Queer and Trans Experiences in an Online Debate about Male-Only Barbershops

From: Divided

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This essay explores the controversy generated by the author’s attempt to get a men’s haircut at a barber shop in Regina. The author suggests that due to heteronormative conceptions of … 17 $1.70 Add
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The Racialization of Oppression

From: Oppression

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This chapter looks at racism and health, examining how racism and systemic oppression harms health and can reduce lifespan. 19 $1.90 Add
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The Well-Being Community

From: An Economy of Well-Being

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* The Edmonton Social Health Index * Measuring the Well-Being of Valleyview, Alberta * Edmonton’s Well-Being Index and Measuring the Well-Being Return on Taxes * Community Asset and … 23 $2.30 Add
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Thumbs Up! Inclusion, Rights and Equality as Experienced by Youth with Disabilities

From: Social Inclusion

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