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  • Collective Bargaining in the Essential and Public Service Sectors

    Proceedings of a conference held on 3 and 4 April 1975, organized by David Beatty through the Centre for Industrial Relations University of Toronto, chaired by John Crispo

    Edited by Morley Gunderson ...
    Series series Heritage
    In Toronto, in April 1975, three Canadians and one American each presented a paper at a conference on what has become the key issue in current industrial relations – collective bargaining in the essential and public service sectors.This book presents those papers along with transcripts of the substantial and lively discussions that followed each one and involved many of the leading Canadian ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

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    His ideology-fuelled attack on Canadian society and values, and how we can now work to create the country we want

    by Ed Finn ...
    Most Canadians know that Stephen Harper has had a tremendous impact on the country since becoming prime minister in 2006. But few have the in-depth knowledge of how far his transformation has gone -- what has already been done, and what the consequences will be in the future.This book brings together Canadian experts in a wide variety of areas. They document key changes put in place by the Harper ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Utopia of Rules

    On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

    by David Graeber ...
    From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our livesWhere does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to spend so much of our time filling out forms? And is it really a cipher for state violence?To answer these questions, the anthropologist David Graeber—one of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Free Agent Nation

    How Americans New Independent Workers Are Transforming the Way We Live

    by Daniel H. Pink ...
    Widely acclaimed for its engaging style and provocative perspective, this book has helped thousands transform their working lives -- Now including a 30-page resource guide that explains the basics of working for oneself.It's about fulfillment. A revolution is sweeping America. On its front lines are people fed up with unfulfilling jobs, dysfunctional workplaces, and dead-end careers. Meet today's ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The China Price

    The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage

    by Alexandra Harney ...
    In this landmark work of investigative reporting, former Financial Times correspondent Alexandra Harney uncovers a story of immense significance to us all: how China's factory economy gains a competitive edge by selling out its workers, environment, and future. Harney's firsthand reporting brings us face-to-face with a world in which intense pricing pressure from Western companies combines with ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Precariat

    The New Dangerous Class

    by Prof. Guy Standing ...
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.This book presents the Precariat – an emerging class, comprising the rapidly growing number of people facing lives of insecurity, moving in and out of jobs that give little meaning to their lives.Guy Standing argues that this class is producing instabilities in ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • How We Changed Toronto

    The inside story of twelve creative, tumultuous years in civic life, 1969-1980

    by John Sewell ...
    By the mid-1960s Toronto was well on its way to becoming Canada's largest and most powerful city. One real estate firm aptly labelled it Boomtown. Expressways, subways, shopping centres, high-rise apartments, and skyscraping downtown office towers were transforming the city. City officials were cheerleaders for unrestricted growth.All this "progress" had a price. Heritage buildings were ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The People's House of Commons

    Theories of Democracy in Contention

    by David E. Smith ...
    Canada's House of Commons has come under considerable attack in recent years. Many critics have contended that the House has been unresponsive to public opinion, and that its party leaders have too much control, while leaving individual MPs essentially powerless. The House has also faced challenges by the courts since the introduction of the Charter, a powerful bureaucracy equipped with ... Read more

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  • Free to Believe

    Rethinking Freedom of Conscience and Religion in Canada

    by Mary Anne Waldron ...
    Free to Believe investigates the protection for freedom of conscience and religion – the first of the “fundamental freedoms” listed in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms – and its interpretation in the courts. Through an examination of decided cases that touches on the most controversial issues of our day, such as abortion, same-sex marriage, and minority religious practices, Mary Anne ... Read more

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  • State of the Unions

    by Philip M. Dine ...
    After years of being ignored by the media and public, labor finds itself squarely in the spotlight - under attack from all angles and fighting back fiercely. No longer can anyone claim that labor's falling membership has made it a mere relic, for its adversaries would not expend so much energy to destroy a movement grown truly irrelevant. But what is this war on labor all about? Can unions survive ... Read more

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  • Remaining Loyal

    Social Democracy in Quebec and Saskatchewan

    by David McGrane ...
    When social democratic politicians in the 1990s moderated their ideas and policies as part of a turn towards the "third way," they were assailed as traitors to the cause. Remaining Loyal demonstrates that while third way social democrats in Quebec and Saskatchewan supplemented certain social democratic ideas with more right-wing economic programs, their public policies remained true to the ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Canada and the United States

    Differences that Count, Fourth Edition

    Edited by David Thomas, David Biette ...
    Canada and the United States: Differences that Count investigates why and how the United States and Canada—while so close and seemingly so similar—remain different in so many ways. In seventeen analytical yet readable chapters, leading authorities look at the American and the Canadian ways of doing things. The questions they address affect us all in ways great and small: as citizens, as students, ... Read more

    $48.59 USD