Public Policy

  • Essential Work, Disposable Workers

    Migration, Capitalism and Class

    By Mostafa Henaway  Foreword by Harsha Walia     Forthcoming June 2023

    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.

  • About Canada: Dental Care

    By Brandon Doucet     Forthcoming April 2023

    Dental care in Canada is for those who can afford it. What will it take to make oral healthcare free?

  • Property Wrongs

    The Seventy-Year Fight for Public Housing in Winnipeg

    By Doug Smith     Forthcoming April 2023

    Business interests have fought hard against public housing by doing their utmost to limit city democracy.

  • Future on Fire

    Capitalism and the Politics of Climate Change

    By David Camfield     October 2022

    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.

  • Fight to Win

    Inside Poor People’s Organizing

    By A.J.  Withers     November 2021

    The first full length book on the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, one of Canada’s most significant poor people’s activist organizations.

  • Ineligible

    Single Mothers Under Welfare Surveillance

    By Krys Maki     November 2021

    A comprehensive examination of welfare state surveillance and regulation of single mothers in Ontario.

  • Border and Rule

    Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

    By Harsha Walia     February 2021

    An urgent, global account of the migration crisis and the function of borders across political, social, cultural, and economic systems.

  • About Canada: Disability Rights

    2nd Edition

    By Deborah Stienstra     September 2020

    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.

  • Ideology Over Economics

    P3s in an Age of Austerity

    By John Loxley     August 2020

    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.

  • Legalizing Theft

    A Short Guide to Tax Havens

    By Alain Deneault  Translated by Catherine Browne     April 2018

    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.