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“adrian a smith”

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  • Unfree Labour?

    Struggles of Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada

    Edited by Aziz Choudry, Adrian A. Smith ...
    Over the past decade, Canada has experienced considerable growth in labour migration. Moreover, temporary labour migration has replaced permanent immigration as the primary means by which people enter Canada. Utilizing the rhetoric of maintaining competitiveness, Canadian employers and the state have ushered in an era of neoliberal migration alongside an agenda of austerity flowing from capitalist ... Read more

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  • Unfree Labour?

    Edited by Aziz Choudry, Adrian A. Smith ...
    With so many political establishments and economic institutions undergoing enormous changes, many economic theories are being called into question. The legitimacy of capitalism is being considered by socialist economists the world over, and critiques of Marxism are attempting to put the school of thought into a more modern context. Labor Regime Change in the Twenty-First Century calls into ... Read more

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    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Would it be possible to provide people with a basic income as a right? The idea has a long history. This book draws on two pilot schemes conducted in the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh, in which thousands of men, women and children were provided with an unconditional ... Read more

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  • Jobs with Justice

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  • Social Perspectives in Mental Health

    Developing Social Models to Understand and Work with Mental Distress

    by Sarah Carr, Peter Beresford, Martin Webber ...
    Social Perspectives in Mental Health offers new practice frameworks that help to make sense of people's mental distress and recovery in relation to their social experience. This interdisciplinary volume promotes a holistic approach to mental health practice, with an emphasis on recovery and empowerment, and on building on the experiences of service users. The contributors explore the impact of ... Read more

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  • Market Expansion and Social Dumping in Europe

    Edited by Magdalena Bernaciak ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in European Politics
    The term ‘social dumping’ regularly appears in public debates and in policymaking circles. However, due to its ambiguity it is used in a manner that is convenient for individual discourse participants, thus opening the door for misconceptions and ill-grounded accusations.This book systematically examines social dumping in the context of the European integration process. It defines social dumping ... Read more

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  • Committed

    The Battle over Involuntary Psychiatric Care

    by Dinah Miller, Annette Hanson ...
    A compelling look at involuntary psychiatric care and psychiatry’s role in preventing violence.Battle lines have been drawn over involuntary treatment. On one side are those who oppose involuntary psychiatric treatments under any condition. Activists who take up this cause often don’t acknowledge that psychiatric symptoms can render people dangerous to themselves or others, regardless of their ... Read more

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  • Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair

    One Family's Passage Through the Child Welfare System

    by Susan Sheehan ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Is There No Place on Earth for Me? comes a poignant account exposing the harsh realities of the foster care system."No reader with a conscience, no reader with a heart, will come away from this complicated, infuriating and unforgettable book untouched or unmotivated to instill long-overdue change."--Michael Dorris, author of The Broken ChordOn October 7, ... Read more

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  • The Path of Labor

    Theme: Christianity and The World’s Workers

    by Walter Rauschenbusch, M. Katharine Bennett, Grace Scribner, John E. Calfee, A. J. Mckelway, L. H. Hammond, Miriam L. Woodberry ...
    Those who labored with such desire and earnestness for the selection of a theme for the textbooks for 1918–1919, that should present not only a vital but a paramount issue to the church at this time when only great realities and issues claim serious thought, chose better than they knew when they elected Christianity and the World’s Workers.It is generally conceded that the most decisive single ... Read more

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  • Capitalists Against Markets

    The Making of Labor Markets and Welfare States in the United States and Sweden

    by Peter A. Swenson ...
    Conventional wisdom argues that welfare state builders in the US and Sweden in the 1930s took their cues from labor and labor movements. Swenson makes the startling argument that pragmatic social reformers looked for support not only from below but also from above, taking into account capitalist interests and preferences. Juxtaposing two widely recognized extremes of welfare, the US and Sweden, ... Read more

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  • Faith Based

    Religious Neoliberalism and the Politics of Welfare in the United States

    by Jason Hackworth ...
    Faith Based explores how the Religious Right has supported neoliberalism in the United States, bringing a particular focus to welfare—an arena where conservative Protestant politics and neoliberal economic ideas come together most clearly. Through case studies of gospel rescue missions, Habitat for Humanity, and religious charities in post-Katrina New Orleans, Jason Hackworth describes both the ... Read more

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  • Curriculum as Spaces

    Aesthetics, Community, and the Politics of Place

    by David M. Callejo Pérez, Donna Adair Breault, William White ...
    Series Book 45 - Complicated Conversation
    This book has won the «O.L. Davis, Jr. Outstanding Book Award» 2015 from the American Association for Teaching and Curriculum (AATC)Curriculum as Spaces: Aesthetics, Community, and the Politics of Place can be viewed as a holistic approach to education, conservation, and community development that uses place as an integrating context for learning. It argues that curriculum and place is a much ... Read more

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