Class, Inequality & Oppression

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A Good Dose of Materialism Helps a Bad Case of Affluenza

A Good Dose of Materialism Helps a Bad Case of Affluenza

From: Curing Affluenza

Chapter 2 examines our current culture of convenience, discussing topics including consuming and producing, credit cards and credit card debt, consumerism (the love of buying things) verses … 27 $2.70 Add
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A Good Idea Goes Viral
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A Good Idea Goes Viral

From: The Case for Basic Income

This chapter highlights the disparate impacts of COVID-19 on low-wage "essential" workers, racialized populations, and women; the pandemic revealed that many Canadians suffer from … ; ; 30 $3.00 Add
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A History of Struggle
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A History of Struggle

From: The Tenant Class

Ricardo examines the history of social movements pushed forward by tenants in Canada. Ricardo examines how colonialism and the renter vs. landlord dynamic are intertwined. 29 $2.90 Add
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A Letter to a Friend

A Letter to a Friend

From: Experiencing Difference

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A New Model of Care

A New Model of Care

From: Beyond Shelters

Describes how the Mustard Seed in Calgary is building its own capacity to move homeless people into the community at scale. Examines the organization’s Wellness Centre as emblematic of its … 17 $1.70 Add
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A Perspective on How Deaf People Perceive Being Different

A Perspective on How Deaf People Perceive Being Different

From: Experiencing Difference

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A Provocation to Freedom
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A Provocation to Freedom

From: The Case for Basic Income

In the concluding chapter, the authors reconsider what counts as work, with an emphasis on the importance of care work. ; ; 7 $0.70 Add
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A Roadmap to Well-Being

A Roadmap to Well-Being

From: An Economy of Well-Being

* Can Well-Being Be Measured? * The Science of Well-Being: What We Measure Affects What We Do * Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and an Indigenous Model of Well-Being * The Util: Measuring Real … 26 $2.60 Add
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A "Sacred Duty"

A "Sacred Duty"

Christianity, Civilization, and Indian Education

From: Victims of Benevolence

Roman Catholic missionaries and the Canadian government shared a vision: to see Native people, through residential schooling, abandon their cultural heritage and their nomadic hunting and fishing … 40 $1.60 Add
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A Theorizing of De-colonializing Equity and the Nation State
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A Theorizing of De-colonializing Equity and the Nation State

From: Decolonizing Equity

In chapter 3, Kathy Hogarth engages with decolonial discourse and practice and argues that the need for an equity lens in decolonization is not only desirable but imperative if the decolonial … 20 $2.00 Add
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A User's Guide to
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A User’s Guide to

The Case for Basic Income

From: The Case for Basic Income

A glossary of important individuals and concepts ; ; 7 $0.70 Add
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Accounting for Enterprise Well-Being

Accounting for Enterprise Well-Being

From: An Economy of Well-Being

* The Origins of Auditing * Toward Quality-of-Life Auditing and Accounting * Well-Being Inventory * Five Assets of Enterprise Well-Being * Measuring Workplace Well-Being * Enterprise Well-Being … 22 $2.20 Add
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Addressing Crisis

Addressing Crisis

From: Beyond Shelters

Describes and analyzes how the Bloom Group in downtown Vancouver works closely with women to control and move on from crisis to confront and reduce homelessness, recognizing violence as a … 15 $1.50 Add
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Advanced Capitalist Mode of Production: Drivers of Class Relations in “Knowledge Economies”
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Advanced Capitalist Mode of Production: Drivers of Class Relations in “Knowledge Economies”

From: Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism

This chapter briefly sketches the context for the class analysis in the remainder of the book. It traces the transition from the feudal mode of production to capitalism, the development of the … 24 $2.40 Add
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Advanced Capitalist Mode of Thought: Bourgeois Ideology
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Advanced Capitalist Mode of Thought: Bourgeois Ideology

From: Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism

In this chapter, Livingstone examines modes of thought that serve to shape peoples’ views of social reality, compare feudal and capitalist modes of thought and dominant ideas, and point to … 30 $3.00 Add
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Advocacy Centre

Advocacy Centre

From: Beyond Shelters

Proposes that, while continuing to deliver essential services to men and women in states of emergency and providing assistance in finding and keeping housing, homeless shelters are well placed to … 19 $1.90 Add