Public Policy
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Essential Work, Disposable Workers
Migration, Capitalism and Class
A book about the massive expansion precarious work under neoliberalism and how migrant workers are challenging the conditions of their hyper-exploitation through struggles for worker rights and justice.
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About Canada: Dental Care
Dental care in Canada is for those who can afford it. What will it take to make oral healthcare free?
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Property Wrongs
The Seventy-Year Fight for Public Housing in Winnipeg
Business interests have fought hard against public housing by doing their utmost to limit city democracy.
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Future on Fire
Capitalism and the Politics of Climate Change
This book argues that only the power of disruptive mass social movements has the potential to force governments to make the changes we need, so supporters of climate justice should commit to building them.
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Fight to Win
Inside Poor People’s Organizing
The first full length book on the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, one of Canada’s most significant poor people’s activist organizations.
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Ineligible
Single Mothers Under Welfare Surveillance
A comprehensive examination of welfare state surveillance and regulation of single mothers in Ontario.
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Border and Rule
Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
An urgent, global account of the migration crisis and the function of borders across political, social, cultural, and economic systems.
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About Canada: Disability Rights
2nd Edition
In the second edition of About Canada: Disability Rights, Deborah Stienstra explores the historical and current experiences of people with disabilities in Canada, as well as the policy and advocacy responses to these experiences.
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Ideology Over Economics
P3s in an Age of Austerity
In Ideology Over Economics, economist John Loxley examines the expansion of P3s following the 2008 global financial crisis, when corporations responded to the crisis by lobbying governments for financial assistance and austerity governments responded by expanding financial resources for P3s.
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Legalizing Theft
A Short Guide to Tax Havens
When our infrastructures deteriorate, when social benefits are frozen, when our living conditions are precarious, it is because of tax havens. A source of growing inequalities and colossal tax losses, the use of tax havens by large corporations and wealthy individuals explains austerity policies. Moreover, states have legalized these offshore schemes that contravene the very principle of taxation.