2024
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From  NEW! Confronting Financialization to Prevent Homelessness |
In this chapter, Katlin Schwan asks us to consider how financialization, specifically the financialization of housing is contributing to the homelessness epidemic. Increasing rental prices, the … | Kaitlin Schwan | 12 | 2024 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Chapter 1From status to contract: Toward new legal forms of worker subjugation From: Law at Work |
This chapter explores the evolution of labour legislation, highlighting the role these laws played in limiting workers’ rights and reinforcing class hierarchies. It also analyzes collective … | Harry Glasbeek | 18 | 2024 | $1.80 Add |
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From  Chapter 1: Before the Online Streaming Act: How Canada “Regulates” Its Broadcasting SystemFrom: Canada Vs California |
In this Chapter author Howard Law provides a primer on how Canada has regulated its broadcasting system for the last several decades as well as the three amendments to this act over this period … | Howard Law | 19 | 2024 | $1.90 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 1: The Lens of Upfront Carbon |
What is upfront carbon, and why is it so important? For decades we have been preoccupied with energy consumption, but since the Paris Accord of 2015 we have had to pivot to concern about carbon … | Lloyd Alter | 46 | 2024 | $4.60 Add |
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From  Chapter 2. Mental Health Workers Have Never Been the Solution to Racial Violence by Police |
The text first examines psychiatry’s historical roots in colonial ideology, which scientifically justified racial hierarchies and state-sanctioned harm. Next, it analyzes the systemic … | Edward Hon-Sing Wong | 13 | 2024 | $1.30 Add |
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From Chapter 10Executives: In a class of their own? From: Law at Work |
This chapter explores the central role of executives and managers in corporate operations, arguing that their wealth and power have grown as they exercise influence beyond their individual … | Harry Glasbeek | 26 | 2024 | $2.60 Add |
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From Chapter 10: Telling Canadian StoriesFrom: Canada Vs California |
Chapter 10 discusses the need for Canadian Stories. Howard Law speaks to the core goals of the national media strategy as the means to build a collective identity and foster a nationhood in the … | Howard Law | 7 | 2024 | $0.70 Add |
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From Chapter 11. Conversations on Decolonizing JusticeWith Members of It Starts With Us and No More Silence |
This excerpt outlines the epistemological tension between decolonization ideals and pragmatic reliance on carceral institutions for justice regarding Indigenous communities. It contrasts … | Audrey Huntley; Carol Lynne D'Arcangelis | 21 | 2024 | $2.10 Add |
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From Chapter 11A legal right to maim and kill workers From: Law at Work |
This chapter examines how the structures and ideology supported by law to maintain and perpetuate capitalism ensure the dominance of one class over another. It also discusses how, when it comes … | Harry Glasbeek | 33 | 2024 | $3.30 Add |
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From Chapter 12. Baby Bundle Project and Community Birth Work Journeys |
This document analyzes structural inequities in Indigenous child welfare, specifically how funding priorities conflate poverty with parental neglect rather than addressing housing scarcity. It … | Krysta Williams | 12 | 2024 | $1.20 Add |
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From Chapter 12The dignity of work versus the degradation of work under capitalism From: Law at Work |
This chapter examines how the basic structure of capitalism makes work unrewarding, and how legal systems legitimize and reinforce these conditions. It argues that the law not only sustains … | Harry Glasbeek | 29 | 2024 | $2.90 Add |
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From Chapter 13. Social Work’s Very Complicated Relationship with Indigenous Languages |
The text examines social work’s historical entanglement with colonial policies disrupting language transmission. It critiques institutional models that prioritize bureaucracy over … | Rochelle Allan | 15 | 2024 | $1.50 Add |
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From Chapter 13Selected Notes From: Law at Work |
This page lists selected notes used throghout the book. | Harry Glasbeek | 1 | 2024 | $0.10 Add |
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From Chapter 14. Toronto Indigenous Harm ReductionSolidarity with Indigenous Encampment Residents |
The text examines the organization’s formation during the pandemic, driven by institutional neglect and service closures within specific urban neighborhoods facing isolation. It analyzes … | Brianna Pitawanakwat Olson | 4 | 2024 | $0.40 Add |
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From Chapter 15. Black Creek Community FarmMutual Aid, Abolition, and Food Justice in Jane and Finch |
The text identifies structural determinants like state planning that create food apartheid and health disparities in marginalized neighborhoods. It examines the historical transition toward … | Sabrina "Butterfly" Gopaul; Sam Tecle; Suzanne Narain | 12 | 2024 | $1.20 Add |
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From Notes |
The document identifies three primary topics concerning social work reform. Firstly, it analyzes historical colonial entanglements involving state violence against racialized groups within … | Craig Fortier; Edward Hon-Sing Wong; MJ Rwigema | 28 | 2024 | $2.80 Add |
