Into Our Labours

Author : Stephanie Ross,Larry Savage
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21T00:00:00Z
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781773635040

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Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada, 2nd ed. by Stephanie Ross,Larry Savage Pdf

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 central concern of this second edition of Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada. With new and revised essays by established and emerging scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this edited collection assesses the past, present and uncertain future of Canadian labour politics in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Bringing together the traditional electoral-based aspects of labour politics with analyses of newer and rediscovered forms of working-class organization and social movement-influenced strategies, which have become increasingly important in the Canadian labour movement, this book seeks to take stock of these new forms of labour politics, understand their emergence and assess their potential impact on the future of labour in Canada.

Author : Meg Luxton
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0889610622

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More Than a Labour of Love by Meg Luxton Pdf

Based on participant observation and in-depth interviews, this book describes the work women do in their homes, caring for children and partners, and maintaining the house. It shows how their lives are shaped by domestic responsibilities and challenges the ways in which their work is neither recognized nor valued. Arguing that the work they do is socially necessary and central to the economy, it calls for a transformation of current social and economic relations.

Author : Jaime Cortez
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802158093

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Gordo by Jaime Cortez Pdf

This debut story collection “masterfully navigates adverse conditions of migrant life while . . . managing to find joy and amusement, love and triumph” (San Francisco Chronicle). Gordo brings readers inside a migrant workers camp near Watsonville, California in the 1970s. At the heart of these interrelated stories is a young, probably gay, boy named Gordo, who must find a way to contend with the notions of manhood imposed on him by his father. As he comes of age, Gordo learns about sex, watches his father’s drunken fights, and discovers even his own documented Mexican-American parents are wary of illegal migrants. We also meet Fat Cookie, high schooler and resident artist who runs away from home one day with her mother’s boyfriend, Manny. And then there are Los Tigres, the twins who show up every season and whose drunken brawl ends with one of them rushed to the emergency room in an upholstered chair tied to the back of a pick-up truck. These scenes from Steinbeck Country are full of humor, family drama, and a sweet frankness about serious questions: Who belongs to America and how are they treated? How does one learn decency when grown adults must fear for their lives and livelihoods? Gordo “announces a vibrant new voice on the literary scene, at once wise and authentic and supremely gifted” (Booklist, starred review). Finalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

Author : Rivka Galchen
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780811222976

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Little Labors by Rivka Galchen Pdf

In paperback at last: Rivka Galchen’s beloved baby bible—slyly hilarious, surprising, and absolutely essential reading for anyone who has ever had, held, or been a baby In this enchanting miscellany, Galchen notes that literature has more dogs than babies (and also more abortions), that the tally of children for many great women writers—Jane Bowles, Elizabeth Bishop, Virginia Woolf, Janet Frame, Willa Cather, Patricia Highsmith, Iris Murdoch, Djuna Barnes, Mavis Gallant—is zero, that orange is the new baby pink, that The Tale of Genji has no plot but plenty of drama about paternity, that babies exude an intoxicating black magic, and that a baby is a goldmine.

Author : Cindy Hanson,Adriane Paavo,Sisters in Labour Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05
Category : Labor unions
ISBN : 1773632094

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Cracking Labour's Glass Ceiling by Cindy Hanson,Adriane Paavo,Sisters in Labour Education Pdf

This edited collection is a vibrant, modern history of women-only labour education events.

Author : Stephanie Ross,Larry Savage
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Labor movement
ISBN : 1552664783

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Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada by Stephanie Ross,Larry Savage Pdf

"Though the Canadian labour movement's postwar political, economic and social achievements may have seemed like irrevocable contributions to human progress, they have proven to be anything but. Since the mid-1970s, labour's political influence and capacity to defend, let alone extend, these gains has been seriously undermined by the strategies of both capitalist interests and the neoliberal state. Electoral de-alignment and the decline of class-based voting, bursts of unsustained extra-parliamentary militancy and a general lack of influence on state actors and policy outcomes all signal that the labour movement is in crisis. Despite much experimentation in an attempt to regain political clout, labour continues to experience deep frustration and stagnation. As such, the labour movement's future political capacities are in question, and the need for critical appraisal is urgent. Understanding how and why workers were able to exert collective power in the postwar era, how they lost it and how they might re-establish it is the central concern of Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada. With essays from established and emerging scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this collection assesses the past, present and uncertain future of labour politics in Canada. Bringing together the traditional electoral-based aspects of labour politics with analyses of the newer and rediscovered forms of working-class organization and social movement-influenced strategies, which have become increasingly important in the Canadian labour movement, this book seeks to take stock of these new forms of labour politics, understand their emergence and assess their impact on the future of labour in Canada."--Publisher.

Author : Rod Mickleburgh
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781550178272

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On the Line by Rod Mickleburgh Pdf

The BC tradition of fighting back against unfair pay and unsafe working conditions has been around since before the colony joined Confederation. In 1849 Scottish labourers at BC’s first coal mine at Fort Rupert went on strike to protest wretched working conditions, and it’s been a wild ride ever since. For years the BC labour movement was the most militant in the land, led by colourful characters like Ginger Goodwin, murdered for his pains, and pull-no-punches communist Harvey Murphy, who brought the house of labour down on himself with his infamous “underwear speech.” Through years of battles with BC’s power elite and small victories followed by bitter defeats, BC unions established the five-day work week, the eight-hour day, paid holidays, the right to a safe, non-discriminatory workplace and many more taken-for-granted features of the modern work landscape. But unions’ enemies never sleep and, well into the second decade of the twenty-first century, battles still go on, like that of BC teachers in their long and ultimately successful struggle to improve classroom conditions. On the Line also highlights the role played by women, Indigenous and minority workers in working toward equality and democracy in workplaces and communities. In prose that is both accessible and engaging, accompanied by over two hundred archival photos, Mickleburgh tells the important story of how BC’s labour organizations have shaped the economic, political and social fabric of the province—at a cost of much blood, sweat, toil and tears. This volume is the most comprehensive overview of labour’s struggle in BC and will be of particular interest to union members, community activists, academics and readers of regional history.

Author : Deborah A. Brennan
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-08
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781459720800

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Labours of Love by Deborah A. Brennan Pdf

Adoption is not for the faint of heart. Labours of Love chronicles the journeys of Canadians who have overcome heartbreaking obstacles to become parents. Their stories are as diverse as our country, and span the borders of our world. While each account is unique in its own way, the stories are connected by the overwhelmingly commonality of the power of human connection.

Author : Ellie Berger
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442667365

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Ageism at Work by Ellie Berger Pdf

The Canadian population is aging, bringing with it an increasing number of social and economic challenges. With the aging of the workforce, the reconceptualization of older workers and retirement, the increasing share of women in the labour force, the elimination of mandatory retirement, the fluctuating economy, and the changes to the pension system, barriers to employment for older workers, such as ageism, need to be of central concern. Ageism at Work examines the subjective experiences of older workers in Canada and explores how they negotiate ageism and manage their interactions in the employment setting. Further, this book looks at the intersection between age and gender and the pervasiveness of gendered ageism in the labour market. Finally, this book examines employers’ attitudes towards older workers quantitatively, while also exploring their first-hand accounts about them through qualitative inquiry. Understanding how ageism plays out in the labour market, how it intersects with sexism, and its consequences on a personal level are critical to moving the discussion on discrimination and human rights forward in Canada.

Author : Alvin Finkel
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781926836584

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Working People in Alberta by Alvin Finkel Pdf

A political and economic analysis of the history of working people in Alberta.

Author : Joan Sangster
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802096524

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Transforming Labour by Joan Sangster Pdf

`This is a beautifully conceived and revealing book. Joan Sangster lucidly explores and explains an astonishing array of complex material to reveal how women in the post-war period became full-fledged members of the labour force. Transforming labour offers such a rich variety of ancedotal evidence that it will benefit students of women's work from all over the world.' Alice Kessler-Harris, author of in Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America

Author : Sheryl Nestel
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774840729

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Obstructed Labour by Sheryl Nestel Pdf

Obstructed Labour analyzes how the movement to legalize midwifery in Ontario reproduced racial inequality by excluding from practice hundreds of professional midwives from the global south. Global macroprocesses of power, institutional forms of exclusion, and interpersonal expressions of racism all play a part. Sheryl Nestel shows that unequal relations between women underlie the successful challenge to patriarchal medical authority mounted by provincial midwifery activists. This is a disquieting but fascinating counter-history of the re-emergence of midwifery.

Author : Stephanie Ross,Larry Savage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Labor movement
ISBN : 1773630490

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Labour Under Attack by Stephanie Ross,Larry Savage Pdf

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. Contributors to this collection are concerned with the strategic implications of anti-union tactics and ideas and explore the possibilities and challenges for unions intent on overcoming them for the benefit of all working people.

Author : John Pye Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024446831

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The Labours and the Reward of a Faithful Minister. A Sermon [on 2 Tim. Iv. 6-8] on the Death of ... R. Winter. ... To which is Prefixed the Address at the Grave by J. Clayton Jun. Second Edition by John Pye Smith Pdf

Author : Haidar, Julieta,Keune, Maarten
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781802205138

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Work and Labour Relations in Global Platform Capitalism by Haidar, Julieta,Keune, Maarten Pdf

This engaging and timely book provides an in-depth analysis of work and labour relations within global platform capitalism with a specific focus on digital platforms that organise labour processes, known as labour platforms. Well-respected contributors thoroughly examine both online and offline platforms, their distinct differences and the important roles they play for both large transnational companies and those with a smaller global reach.