Labour & Unions
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Papergirl
Ten-year-old Cassie lives with her working-class family in 1919 Winnipeg. The Great War and Spanish Influenza have taken their toll, and workers in the city are frustrated with low wages and long hours. When they orchestrate a general strike, Cassie — bright, determined and very bored at school — desperately wants to help.
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Magnificent Fight
The 1919 Winnipeg General Strike
Far from a simple retelling of the General Strike, Magnificent Fight speaks to the power of workers’ solidarity and social organization. The book reveals the length the capitalist class and the state went to in protecting the status quo.
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Cracking Labour’s Glass Ceiling
Transforming Lives through Women’s Union Education
This original collection is a vibrant, modern history of women-only labour education events.
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Walmart
Diary of an Associate
In 2012, journalist Hugo Meunier went undercover as a Walmart employee for three months in St. Leonard, Quebec, just north of Montreal. In great detail, Meunier charts the daily life of an impoverished Walmart worker, referring to his shifts at the box store giant as “somewhere between the army and Walt Disney.”
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Sick and Tired
Health and Safety Inequalities
Bringing together a multidisciplinary group of experts from the fields of labour studies, public health, ergonomics, epidemiology, sociology and law, Sick and Tired examines the inequalities in workplace health and safety.
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Labour Under Attack
Anti-Unionism in Canada
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.
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Precarious Employment
Causes, Consequences and Remedies
This edited collection introduces and explores the causes and consequences of precarious employment in Canada and across the world.
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Migrant Workers and the City
Generation Now
In this refreshingly open and enlightening book we hear the stories and hopes for the future from the people who live in the basements of cities across China.
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Building a Better World, 3rd Edition
An Introduction to the Labour Movement in Canada, 3rd Edition
“Since it was first published, Building a Better World has been the best available book to introduce readers to unions in Canada. … With workers and unions facing increasingly severe attacks from employers and governments, this new version is most welcome.” — David Camfield, University of Manitoba, author of Canadian Labour in Crisis
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Continental Crucible, Expanded Edition
Big Business, Workers and Unions in the Transformation of North America
This expanded edition examines developments in the offensive of North American big business, especially the blitzkrieg of constitutional reforms in Mexico in 2013–14. This crisis and its implications for the North American left and labour movements are explored in greater depth. This edition also includes new material from Leo Panitch and Steve Early, as well as the original preface by Mel Watkins.
