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  • The Wages of Relief

    Cities and the Unemployed in Prairie Canada, 1929–39

    by Eric Strikwerda ...
    Series series Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH
    In the early part of the Dirty Thirties, the Canadian prairie city was a relatively safe haven. Having faced recession before the Great War and then again in the early 1920s, municipalities already had relief apparatuses in place to deal with poverty and unemployment. Until 1933, responsibilty for the care of the urban poor remained with local governments, but when the farms failed that year, and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • The Working Poor

    Invisible in America

    by David K. Shipler ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Arab and Jew, an intimate portrait unfolds of working American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty."This is clearly one of those seminal books that every American should read and read now." —The New York Times Book Review**As David K. Shipler makes clear in this powerful, humane study, the invisible ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History

    Third Edition

    by Craig Heron ...
    In The Canadian Labour Movement, historian Craig Heron tells the story of Canada's workers from the mid-nineteenth century through to today, painting a vivid picture of key developments such as the birth of craft unionism, the breakthroughs of the fifties and sixties, and the setbacks of the early twenty-first century.This new edition has been completely updated, including a substantial new ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Shadowbosses

    Government Unions Control America and Rob Taxpayers Blind

    by Mallory Factor, Elizabeth Factor ...
    SHADOWBOSSES reads like an organized crime novel, but it's actually a true story of how labor unions are infiltrating our government and corrupting our political process. This compelling and insightful book exposes how unions have organized federal, state, and local government employees without their consent, and how government employee unions are now a threat to our workers' freedoms, our free ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • State of the Union

    A Century of American Labor - Revised and Expanded Edition

    by Nelson Lichtenstein ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    In a fresh and timely reinterpretation, Nelson Lichtenstein examines how trade unionism has waxed and waned in the nation's political and moral imagination, among both devoted partisans and intransigent foes. From the steel foundry to the burger-grill, from Woodrow Wilson to John Sweeney, from Homestead to Pittston, Lichtenstein weaves together a compelling matrix of ideas, stories, strikes, laws, ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Through Feminist Eyes

    Essays on Canadian Women’s History

    by Joan Sangster ...
    Through Feminist Eyes gathers in one volume the most incisive and insightful essays written to date by the distinguished Canadian historian Joan Sangster. To the original essays, Sangster has added reflective introductory discussions that situate her earlier work in the context of developing theory and debate. Sangster has also supplied an introduction to the collection in which she reflects on ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Union Power

    Solidarity and Struggle in Niagara

    by Carmela Patrias, Larry Savage ...
    Series series Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH
    From factory workers in Welland to retail workers in St. Catharines, from hospitality workers in Niagara Falls to migrant farm workers in Niagara-On-The-Lake, Union Power showcases the role of working people in the Niagara region. Charting the development of the region’s labour movement from the early nineteenth century to the present, Patrias and Savage illustrate how workers from this highly ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Private Government

    How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk about It)

    by Elizabeth Anderson ...
    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments—and why we can't see itOne in four American workers says their workplace is a "dictatorship." Yet that number probably would be even higher if we recognized most employers for what they are—private governments with sweeping authoritarian power over our lives, on duty and off. We normally think of government as something only the state does, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Labour Before the Law

    The Regulation of Workers' Collective Action in Canada, 1900-1948

    by Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker ...
    Series series Canadian Social History Series
    In this groundbreaking study of the relations between workers and the state, Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker examine the legal regulation of workers' collective action from 1900 to 1948. They analyze the strikes, violent confrontations, lockouts, union organizing drives, legislative initiatives, and major judicial decisions that transformed the labour relations regime of liberal voluntarism, which ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • We’re Going to Run This City

    Winnipeg's Political Left after the General Strike

    by Stefan Epp-Koop ...
    Stefan Epp-Koop’s We’re Going to Run This City: Winnipeg’s Political Left After the General Strike explores the dynamic political movement that came out of the largest labour protest in Canadian history and the ramifications for Winnipeg throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Few have studied the political Left at the municipal level—even though it is at this grassroots level that many people participate ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Labor Law for the Rank & Filer

    Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law

    by Staughton Lynd, Daniel Gross ...
    Have you ever felt your blood boil at work but lacked the tools to fight back and win? Or have you acted together with your co-workers, made progress, but wondered what to do next? If you are in a union, do you find that it operates top-down just like the boss and ignores the will of its members?Labor Law for the Rank and Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law is a guerrilla ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Reworking the Relationship between Asylum and Employment

    by Penelope Mathew ...
    Touching on the laws and practices of a wide array of countries around the globe, this book examines the extent to which refugees and asylum-seekers’ right to work is protected by international human rights law. The book examines a number of key international treaties, national constitutions and some foundational cases from national courts in order to make the case that the practise of restricting ... Read more

    $76.99 USD