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ISBN: 9781771131827-04

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The Revolt of the Rich

From: In Defiance

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A discussion of the financing of universities and class tensions over who controls the financing and how it affects access to education. The relationship between education and social change, especially when economic pressures reduce the space for thinking about social change. Universities as a means of shaping people for fitting into the current economy.

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Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois

Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois was the lead spokesperson for CLASSE, one of the more vocal student bodies that participated in the 2012 student strikes that swept Quebec. He is a regular panelist on Radio-Canada.

Lazer Lederhendler

Lazer Lederhendler is a full-time freelance translator specializing in contemporary Québécois fiction and nonfiction. His work has earned him literary distinctions in Canada and abroad, including multiple nominations for the Governor General’s Literary Award, which he won in 2008 for the translation of Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner. Lederhendler is also a three-time winner of the Cole Foundation Prize for Translation awarded by the Quebec Writers’ Federation. His translation of the novel Malabourg by Perrine Leblanc is forthcoming from the House of Anansi later this year. Lazer Lederhendler lives in Montreal.