Class, Inequality & Oppression

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Health and Wealth How Social and Economic Factors Affect Our Well-Being James Lorimer and Company	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 …	Monica Townson	136	1999	View
How Societies Work Class, Power, and Change Fernwood Publishing	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
Ineligble Single Mothers Under Welfare Surveillance Fernwood Publishing	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 Society Power and Possibility Fernwood Publishing	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
Oppression A Social Determinant of Health, 2nd Edition Fernwood Publishing	In this current environment, it is urgent to understand how oppression and health are closely connected. Oppression: A Social Determinant of Health offers a thorough and accessible overview of …	Elizabeth A. McGibbon	264	2021	View
Resistance and Renewal Surviving the Indian Residential School Arsenal Pulp Press	One of the first books published to deal with the phenomenon of residential schools in Canada, Resistance and Renewal is a disturbing collection of Native perspectives on the Kamloops Indian …	Celia Haig-Brown	172	1988	View
NEW! Resisting Eviction Domicide and the Financialization of Rental Housing Fernwood Publishing	Resisting Eviction centres tenant organizing in its investigation of gentrification, eviction and the financialization of rental housing. Andrew Crosby argues that racial discrimination, property …	Andrew Crosby	188	2023	View
Ruling Canada Corporate Cohesion and Democracy Fernwood Publishing	Ruling Canada critically examines Canada’s “economic elite”–a collection of the country’s richest and most powerful individuals, many of whom preside over …	Jamie Brownlee	168	2005	View
Social Inclusion Canadian Perspectives Fernwood Publishing	How is the concept of social inclusion evolving in policy terms? Are we moving toward a common understanding or definition? What does social inclusion mean for issues like poverty and the growing …	Anver Saloojee; Ted Richmond	264	2005	View
The Age of Increasing Inequality The Astonishing Rise of Canada's 1% James Lorimer and Company	For 35 years, Canada has become vastly wealthier, but most people have not. This book documents the dramatic and rapid growth in inequality. It identifies the causes. It proposes meaningful steps …	Lars Osberg	248	2018	View
NEW! The Case for Basic Income Freedom, Security, Justice Between The Lines	Inequality is up. Decent work is down. Free market fundamentalism has been exposed as a tragic failure. In a job market upended by COVID-19—with Canadians caught in the grip of precarious …	Dr. Danielle Martin; Elaine Power; Jamie Swift	264	2021	View
The Dictionary of Homophobia A Global History of Gay & Lesbian Experience Arsenal Pulp Press	Based on the work of seventy researchers in fifteen countries, The Dictionary of Homophobia is a mammoth, encyclopedic book that documents the history of homosexuality, and various …	Louis-Georges Tin	496	2008	View
NEW! The Future is Disabled Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs Arsenal Pulp Press	In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled – and what if that’s …	Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha	334	2022	View
The Imaginary Indian The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture Arsenal Pulp Press	First published in 1992, The Imaginary Indian is a revealing history of the "Indian" image mythologized by popular Canadian culture since 1850, propagating stereotypes that exist to …	Daniel Francis	284	1992	View
The Imaginary Indian, 1st Edition The Image of the Indian in Canadian Culture Arsenal Pulp Press	First published in 1992, The Imaginary Indian is a revealing history of the “Indian” image mythologized by popular Canadian culture since 1850, propagating stereotypes that exist to …	Daniel Francis	284	1992	View
NEW! The Killer’s Henchman Capitalism and the Covid-19 Disaster bar	Summer 2021, the novel coronavirus is scything through populations worldwide. WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announces the Covid-19 pandemic will end “when the world …	Stephen Gowans	280	2022	View