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  • Shifting Gears

    Canadian Autoworkers and the Changing Landscape of Labour Politics

    by Stephanie Ross, Larry Savage ...
    In the decades following the Second World War, autoworkers were at the forefront of the labour movement. Their union urged members to rally in the streets and use the ballot box to effect change for all working-class people. But by the turn of this century, the Canadian Auto Workers union had begun to pursue a more defensive political direction. Shifting Gears traces the evolution of CAW strategy ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Building A Better World, 4th Edition

    An Introduction to the Labour Movement in Canada

    by Stephanie Ross, Larry Savage ...
    This fourth edition of Building a Better World offers a comprehensive introductory overview of Canada’s labour movement. The book explores why workers form unions; assesses their organization and democratic potential; examines issues related to collective bargaining, grievances and strike activity; charts the historical development of labour unions; and describes the gains unions have achieved for ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada, 2nd ed.

    by Stephanie Ross, Larry Savage ...
    In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the need to re-establish the labour movement’s political capacity to exert collective power in ways that foster greater opportunity and equality for working-class people has taken on a greater sense of urgency. Understanding the strategic political possibilities and challenges facing the Canadian labour movement at this important moment in history is the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Unions in Court

    Organized Labour and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms

    by Charles W. Smith, Larry Savage ...
    Series series Law and Society
    Since the turn of the twenty-first century, Canadian unions have scored a number of important Supreme Court victories, securing constitutional rights to picket, bargain collectively, and strike. But how did the labour movement, historically hostile to judicial intervention in labour relations, come to embrace legal activism as a first line of defense as opposed to a last resort? Unions in Court ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Socialist Cowboy

    The Politics of Peter Kormos

    by Larry Savage ...
    Socialist Cowboy is a political biography detailing the life and activism of longtime New Democrat MPP Peter Kormos, one of the most colourful and controversial political personalities in the history of Ontario politics. Throughout his illustrious twenty-three year career as a member of the Ontario legislature, Kormos's unapologetic commitment to democratic socialism and his shoot-from-the-hip ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Labour Under Attack

    Anti-Unionism in Canada

    by Stephanie Ross ...
    This multi-disciplinary edited collection critically examines the causes and effects of anti-unionism in Canada. Primarily through a series of case studies, the book’s contributors document and expose the tactics and strategies of employers and anti-labour governments while also interrogating some of the labour movement’s own practices as a source of anti-union sentiment among workers. ... Read more

    $29.99 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

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  • The New Political Economy of Urban Education

    Neoliberalism, Race, and the Right to the City

    by Pauline Lipman ...
    Series series Critical Social Thought
    Urban education and its contexts have changed in powerful ways. Old paradigms are being eclipsed by global forces of privatization and markets and new articulations of race, class, and urban space. These factors and more set the stage for Pauline Lipman's insightful analysis of the relationship between education policy and the neoliberal economic, political, and ideological processes that are ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Canadian Federal Election of 2011

    by Jon H. Pammett, Christopher Dornan ...
    The Canadian Federal Election of 2011 is a comprehensive analysis of all aspects of the campaign and election outcome. The chapters, written by leading academics, examine the strategies, successes, and failures of the major political parties the Conservatives (Faron Ellis and Peter Woolstencroft), the Liberals (Brooke Jeffrey), the New Democrats (David McGrane), the Bloc Qubcois (Eric Belanger and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understanding Development

    by Paul Hopper ...
    Understanding Development offers a comprehensive introduction to the multidimensional and evolving nature of international development in the contemporary world. This new edition has been fully revised and expanded to incorporate the key events, trends and debates that are shaping development today, such as humanitarianism and the global refugee crisis, the growing number of fragile states, and ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • White Working Class

    Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America

    by Joan C. Williams ...
    "I recommend a book by Professor Williams, it is really worth a read, it's called White Working Class." -- Vice President Joe Biden on Pod Save AmericaAn Amazon Best Business and Leadership book of 2017Around the world, populist movements are gaining traction among the white working class. Meanwhile, members of the professional elite—journalists, managers, and establishment politicians--are on the ... Read more

    $16.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Contested Federalism

    by Herman Bakvis, Gerald Baier, Douglas Brown ...
    Federalism - particularly in Canada - involves an ongoing contestation of interests, ideas, and identities. It is a contestation that sometimes clarifies but often obscures the nature of conflicts and the manner in which they are resolved. Recognizing the great degree of ambivalence associated with federalism, the authors provide students with the conceptual tools and basic knowledge of various ... Read more

    $36.19 USD