Class, Inequality & Oppression

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Living Together

Family, Kinship, and Social Bonds

From: Making Sense of Society

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In Chapter 5, Khasnabish examines the concept of the family– its structures and relations. Few other concepts carry as much weight in terms of signifying relations of mutual obligation, … 25 $2.50 Add
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Looking Back while Facing Forward

From: Experiencing Difference

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More Care, Less Self? How to (Hopefully) Move Beyond Complaint, Critique, and Coloniality

From: Decolonize Self-Care

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Chapter 4 discussed the self-care industry’s use of social justice language as it continues to be a market that relies on inspiration and appropriation of indigenity and other cultural … ; 36 $3.60 Add
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Oppression and the Health of Indigenous Peoples

From: Oppression

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This chapter explores how systemic colonial and racial violence, oppression, and stress have impacted the health and well-being of Indigenous Peoples. 15 $1.50 Add
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Other People’s Houses

From: This Has Always Been a War

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In “Other People’s Houses” the author explores housing or more importantly the lack of affordable, sustainable and accessible housing for working-class people across Canada. … 29 $2.90 Add
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Precarious Work Requires Precarious Workers

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

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This chapter specifically follows the rise of temporary placement agencies as a tool of employers to utilize undocumented, precarious and racialized migrants for capital. The shift from … 12 $1.20 Add
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Representations of Addiction

The History and Continuing Repercussions of Canadian Drug Rhetoric

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

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Classifying Substances and Assessing their Use in Canada – The Cultural History of Canadian Drug Policy – Drug Panics, Political Rhetoric, and Mass Media Representations – … 24 $2.40 Add
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Social Inclusion as Solidarity: Re-thinking the Child’s Rights Agenda

From: Social Inclusion

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Tenant Organizing Today

From: The Tenant Class

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In this chapter, Ricardo examines the steps tenants can take to advocate for their rights. He discusses tenant unions, the power of organizing, and details various examples of grassroots tenant … 15 $1.50 Add
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The Government Investigation

From: Victims of Benevolence

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The Indian Superintendent of B.C., A.W. Vowell was tasked to conduct the investigation into the death of Duncan Sticks. Vowell discredited the student testimonies, putting the blame on them … 21 $0.42 Add
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The Moving Picture of Incomes

From: The Age of Increasing Inequality

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Inequality of annual incomes is like a snapshot of inequality, which only captures part of the moving picture of our fluctuating incomes. Lifetime income depends on career progression and whether … 20 $2.00 Add
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The Resistance

From: Resistance and Renewal

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People rarely comply fully and easily to the introduction of oppression. Native children also produced counter-cultures in their resistance to the oppressive system which was Kamloops Indian … 27 $0.54 Add
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The Social Emergency Room

From: Beyond Shelters

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Describes how the medical emergency model is being used to treat the social emergency a homeless person faces; triaging newly homeless people and helping them reconnect to housing and services in … 12 $1.20 Add
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Tracing the Harmful Patterns of White Settler Womanhood

From: White Benevolence

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In chapter 6, Willow Samara Allen considers the integral role white women have played in the ongoing settler-colonial project through the performance of benevolent white femininity, which … 18 $1.80 Add