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From Crisis to Catastrophe

Care, COVID, and Pathways to Change

by Joan C. Tronto, Juliana Martínez Franzoni, Veena Siddharth, Ito Peng, Odichinma Akosionu, Janette S. Dill, J'Mag Karbeah, Laura Mauldin, Pat Armstrong, Janna Klostermann, María Nieves Rico, Laura Pautassi, Valeria Esquivel, Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Johanna S. Quinn, Zitha Mokomane, Ameeta Jaga, Ken Chih-Yan Sun, Franziska Dorn, Nancy Folbre, Leila Gautham, Martha MacDonald, Sabrina Marchetti, Merita Mesiäislehto, Orly Benjamin, Thurid Eggers, Christopher Grages, Birgit Pfau-Effinger, Cynthia J. Cranford, Cindy L. Cain, Helen Dickinson, Catherine Smith, Katherine Ravenswood, Julie Kashen ...

Series series Carework in a Changing World
The COVID pandemic has shaken the material and social foundations of the world more than any event in recent history and has highlighted and exacerbated a longstanding crisis of care. While these challenges may be freshly visible to the public, they are not new. Over the last three decades, a growing body of care scholarship has documented the inadequacy of the social organization of care around ... Read more

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The COVID pandemic has shaken the material and social foundations of the world more than any event in recent history and has highlighted and exacerbated a longstanding crisis of care. While these challenges may be freshly visible to the public, they are not new. Over the last three decades, a growing body of care scholarship has documented the inadequacy of the social organization of care around
... Read more
Gender and the Contours of Precarious Employment

Edited by Leah F. Vosko, Martha MacDonald, Iain Campbell ...

Series series Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics
Precarious employment presents a monumental challenge to the social, economic, and political stability of labour markets in industrialized societies and there is widespread consensus that its growth is contributing to a series of common social inequalities, especially along the lines of gender and citizenship.The editors argue that these inequalities are evident at the national level across ... Read more

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Precarious employment presents a monumental challenge to the social, economic, and political stability of labour markets in industrialized societies and there is widespread consensus that its growth is contributing to a series of common social inequalities, especially along the lines of gender and citizenship.The editors argue that these inequalities are evident at the national level across
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Them Days 1.4

by N. Markham, Bill Shiwak, Michael Pasteen, Wallace McLean, John Montague, Flora Baikie, Jean Crane, Judson Blake Sr., Alice Parrault, Charlie Bird, Alexander Cribb, Frank D. Moores, David Dickinson, Lillian Broomfield, W. H. Elworthy, Torsten Andersen, Alice Andersen, John Edmunds, Percy Davis, George Rich, Bill Brown, Clifford Moores, George Poole Sr., Elizabeth Goudie, Joe Jacque ...

Narrated by Aimee Chaulk, Jaimee Brown, Patty Way, Morgen Mills, Mina Campbell, Martha MacDonald, Steph White, Ida Suarak, Jill Larkham, George Way ...

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2 hours 23 min

This issue of Them Days Magazine includes the eulogy of John A. Broomfield; stories about trapping and fishing; as well as a few unique articles such as an old Alphabet Song and excerpts from a trapper's diary. This is the final issue from Them Days' first year of publication. ... Read more

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This issue of Them Days Magazine includes the eulogy of John A. Broomfield; stories about trapping and fishing; as well as a few unique articles such as an old Alphabet Song and excerpts from a trapper's diary. This is the final issue from Them Days' first year of publication.
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Them Days 1.1

by Bella Lyall, Joseph Goudie, Isaac Rich, Harry Paddon, Wallace McLean, Austin Montague, George Rich, Harriet Martin, Miriam Hamel, Tommy Davis, Bill Pottle, Percy Davis, Bill Brown, Joe Palliser, Hayward Haynes, Alice Palliser, Ann Oliver, Mary Pardy, Margaret Davis, Alice Perrault, Jemima Learning, Bill Davis ...

Narrated by Aimee Chaulk, Patty Way, Bridget Chaulk, Harry Mugford, Morgen Mills, Andrew Cabot, Martina Lavallee, Jill Larkham, Martha MacDonald ...

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1 hour 42 min

The publication that started it all--the very first issue of Them Days magazine. It debuted in 1975 and started 50 years of recording and sharing oral histories from across Labrador. Sit back and listen to the stories of the Big Land--tales of trapping and fishing, sickness and remedies, a life on that land that was both harsh and beautiful. ... Read more

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The publication that started it all--the very first issue of Them Days magazine. It debuted in 1975 and started 50 years of recording and sharing oral histories from across Labrador. Sit back and listen to the stories of the Big Land--tales of trapping and fishing, sickness and remedies, a life on that land that was both harsh and beautiful.
... Read more
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Them Days 1.3

by John A. Broomfield, Rev. F. W. Peacock, Alice Perrault, Percy Davis, Thorwald Perrault, Wilfred Shiwak, Harvey Goudie, William Buckle, Alfred Winters Sr., John Michelin, Jim Saunders Sr., Elizabeth Goudie, Hayward Haynes, Wallace McLean, May Flowers, William Andersen Sr., Belle Butt, Mary Jane Jones, Don Martin ...

Narrated by Morgen Mills, Aimee Chaulk, Patty Way, George Davis, Jaimee Brown, Clarice Blake-Rudkowski, Jillian Larkham, Martha MacDonald, Val Pardy, Martina Lavallee ...

Unabridged

2 hours 4 min

This third edition of Them Days Magazine from 1976 covers stories about the Moravian Church, memories of the HBC, komatiks and the dogs who pull them, and other reminisces of Labrador. ... Read more

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This third edition of Them Days Magazine from 1976 covers stories about the Moravian Church, memories of the HBC, komatiks and the dogs who pull them, and other reminisces of Labrador.
... Read more
Ageing Equitably with Care

Power, Policy, Practice

by Tesia Wood, Gudmund Ågotnes, Bodil Blix-Hansen, Madeline McCoy, Renate Ysseldyk, Sara Charlesworth, Frode F. Jacobsen, Katherine Laxer, Donna Baines, Christine Streeter, Oliver Debney, Lauren Brooks-Cleator, Sean Hillier, Karine Cote-Boucher, Elias Chaccour, Sienna Caspar, Kelsey Berg, Albert Banerjee, Jacqueline Choiniere, Martha MacDonald ...

Series series Ageing in a Global Context
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.What are the consequences of growing old and needing care in a world shaped by inequality? Who provides the care? What are the challenges?This groundbreaking book delves into conditions for ageing and caring, asking how they could be improved for different communities living in high-income welfare states.Emphasising that equitable ageing ... Read more

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Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.What are the consequences of growing old and needing care in a world shaped by inequality? Who provides the care? What are the challenges?This groundbreaking book delves into conditions for ageing and caring, asking how they could be improved for different communities living in high-income welfare states.Emphasising that equitable ageing
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Dream Hoarders

How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It

by Richard V. Reeves ...

Dream Hoarders sparked a national conversation on the dangerous separation between the upper middle class and everyone else. Now in paperback and newly updated for the age of Trump, Brookings Institution senior fellow Richard Reeves is continuing to challenge the class system in America.In America, everyone knows that the top 1 percent are the villains. The rest of us, the 99 percent-we are the ... Read more

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Dream Hoarders sparked a national conversation on the dangerous separation between the upper middle class and everyone else. Now in paperback and newly updated for the age of Trump, Brookings Institution senior fellow Richard Reeves is continuing to challenge the class system in America.In America, everyone knows that the top 1 percent are the villains. The rest of us, the 99 percent-we are the
... Read more

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Education Policies in the 21st Century

Comparative Perspectives

Edited by Birol Akgün, Yusuf Alpaydın ...

Series series Maarif Global Education Series
This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states and policies on education are examined. In the second part, the effects of changes in the economy on education policies and economies’ demands from educational institutions are ... Read more

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This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states and policies on education are examined. In the second part, the effects of changes in the economy on education policies and economies’ demands from educational institutions are
... Read more
Poorly Understood

What America Gets Wrong About Poverty

by Mark Robert Rank, Lawrence M. Eppard, Heather E. Bullock ...

What if the idealized image of American society—a land of opportunity that will reward hard work with economic success—is completely wrong? Few topics have as many myths, stereotypes, and misperceptions surrounding them as that of poverty in America. The poor have been badly misunderstood since the beginnings of the country, with the rhetoric only ratcheting up in recent times. Our current era of ... Read more

$22.79 USD

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What if the idealized image of American society—a land of opportunity that will reward hard work with economic success—is completely wrong? Few topics have as many myths, stereotypes, and misperceptions surrounding them as that of poverty in America. The poor have been badly misunderstood since the beginnings of the country, with the rhetoric only ratcheting up in recent times. Our current era of
... Read more

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Caring for Children

Social Movements and Public Policy in Canada

by Rachel Langford, Patrizia Albanese, Susan Prentice ...

Social inequality. Selective political attention. Insufficient funding and access. Caring for Children provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of the crisis in care for Canadian children and their caregivers.Couched in the language of choice, government policies on the care of Canadian children over the past decade have favoured professional, nuclear families while doing little to ... Read more

$25.19 USD

Social inequality. Selective political attention. Insufficient funding and access. Caring for Children provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of the crisis in care for Canadian children and their caregivers.Couched in the language of choice, government policies on the care of Canadian children over the past decade have favoured professional, nuclear families while doing little to
... Read more
The Black Agenda

Bold Solutions for a Broken System

Edited by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman ...

" The Black Agenda mobilizes top Black experts from across the country to share transformative perspectives on how to deploy anti-racist ideas and policies into everything from climate policy to criminal justice to healthcare. This book will challenge what you think is possible by igniting long overdue conversations around how to enact lasting and meaningful change rooted in racial justice." ... Read more

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" The Black Agenda mobilizes top Black experts from across the country to share transformative perspectives on how to deploy anti-racist ideas and policies into everything from climate policy to criminal justice to healthcare. This book will challenge what you think is possible by igniting long overdue conversations around how to enact lasting and meaningful change rooted in racial justice."
... Read more
Basic Income for Canadians

From the COVID-19 Emergency to Financial Security for All

by Evelyn L. Forget ...

Before the COVID‐19 pandemic, the idea of providing a basic income to everyone in Canada who needs it was already gaining broad support. Then, in response to a crisis that threatened to put millions out of work, the federal government implemented new measures which constituted Canada's largest ever experiment with a basic income for almost everyone.In this new and revised edition, Evelyn L. Forget ... Read more

$16.99 USD

Before the COVID‐19 pandemic, the idea of providing a basic income to everyone in Canada who needs it was already gaining broad support. Then, in response to a crisis that threatened to put millions out of work, the federal government implemented new measures which constituted Canada's largest ever experiment with a basic income for almost everyone.In this new and revised edition, Evelyn L. Forget
... Read more

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