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From  NEW! The Future of Montreal and 2nd-rank CitiesSection 4: Cities as a Dynamic Economy From: Cities Matter |
Chapter 15 reflects on the future of the city of Montreal, exploring topics including the history of Montreal, Jacobs’ opinion on Montreal, comparison to Boston, the challenges of being a … | Charles-Albert Ramsay | 24 | 2022 | $2.40 Add |
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From NEW! The Hub/Entrepot CitySection 3: Jacobs’ Spectrum of Economic Regions From: Cities Matter |
Chapter 9 examines entrepot cities, which are cities that serve as warehouses to export product from a nearby supply region as it is waiting to be transported to other markets. It discusses … | Charles-Albert Ramsay | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
 NEW! The Killer’s HenchmanCapitalism and the Covid-19 Disaster |
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 |
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From  NEW! The Liberal Intelligentsia Plays Its RoleFrom: Syria |
In this chapter, Kuzmarov and Kovalik examine how liberal intellectuals have provided moral and ideological justification for United States regime-change operations, tracing a lineage from the … | Dan Kovalik; Jeremy Kuzmarov | 20 | 2025 | $2.00 Add |
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From  The McLaughlins vs. The Workers |
In this chapter, Leah traces class conflict in Oshawa, Ontario, from the 1860s through the 1940s, centring on the McLaughlin family and the workers who built the town’s industrial identity. | Tony Leah | 13 | 2024 | $1.30 Add |
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From  The Pieces of the PuzzleFrom: Stolen Motherhood |
This chapter examines three dimensions of surrogacy more closely: "the health of mother and child, the use of anthropological knowledge in the debate surrounding it, and the illusion that … | Maria De Koninck | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
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From The Strike |
In this chapter, Leah examines the conditions that led to the 1937 General Motors strike in Oshawa, Ontario, and the organization of the strike itself. | Tony Leah | 75 | 2024 | $7.50 Add |
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From NEW! The Supply RegionSection 3: Jacobs’ Spectrum of Economic Regions From: Cities Matter |
Chapter 10 explores supply regions also know as resource economies, which are areas that are endowed with highly demanded natural resources and exploited as such. This chapter discusses the … | Charles-Albert Ramsay | 5 | 2022 | $0.50 Add |
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From NEW! The Transplant RegionSection 3: Jacobs’ Spectrum of Economic Regions From: Cities Matter |
Chapter 11 describes how transplant regions are brought to life by the transfer of work from a congested city to a lower-cost production area. The chapter explores their relationship with supply … | Charles-Albert Ramsay | 5 | 2022 | $0.50 Add |
The Truth About the ’37 Oshawa GM StrikeThey Made Cars and They Made Plans: Reds, the Rank and File, and International Solidarity Unionized GM |
Autoworkers unionized the General Motors plant in Oshawa in 1937 after a bitterly fought strike that pitted them against a rabidly anti-union government, hostile press and GM corporation. It was … | Tony Leah | 288 | 2024 | View |
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From  The Unbearable Whiteness of Oklahoma!From: Bigotry on Broadway |
The author explores the ways in which Okahoma! is about whiteness. | Soraya Nadia McDonald | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From  The War Years 1949-1945 |
In this chapter, Jerome traces the political and social developments in Palestine between 1939 and 1945, from the British White Paper’s immigration restrictions to the Biltmore Conference … | Fred Jerome | 11 | 2024 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! The White Helmets: Al Qaeda’s Partner in CrimeFrom: Syria |
In this chapter, Kuzmarov and Kovalik examine the White Helmets and their alleged function as a propaganda partner to Al-Qaeda-affiliated forces during the Syrian War (2011–2024). | Dan Kovalik; Jeremy Kuzmarov | 10 | 2025 | $1.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Theories, theorization, and theorists of imperialismFrom: Imperialism |
In this chapter, Saul traces three intellectual traditions—liberalism, underconsumptionism, and Marxism—that shaped the analysis of imperialism from the late eighteenth century to the … | Samir Saul | 47 | 2025 | $4.70 Add |
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From  NEW! "This Is What Happens When You Protest"From: Razing Palestine |
In this chapter, Coussa recounts her experience during a police assault on her and her friends during a Palestine solidarity protest in Montreal on 22 November 2024. | 12 | 2025 | $1.20 Add | |
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From NEW! Two LettersFrom: Razing Palestine |
This chapter is two reflective essays on the Palestinian conflict by Dr. Yipeng Ge, a Canadian physician suspended from the University of Ottawa in 2024. | 6 | 2025 | $0.60 Add |
