Canadian Labour Policy and Politics
Canadian Labour Policy and Politics is essential reading for students seeking to understand the politics of inequality in Canada’s labour market and the policy agenda needed for greater economic equality and a sustainable green recovery.
- Publication year: 2022
The Canadian Precariat
Part-Time Faculty and the Higher-Education System
- Publication year: 2020
Red Light Labour
Sex Work Regulation, Agency, and Resistance
Red Light Labour, the first book to examine sex work policy and advocacy since Canada v. Bedford, showcases the perspectives of sex workers and activists and deepens our understanding of sex work as labour.
- Publication year: 2018
The Deindustrialized World
Confronting Ruination in Postindustrial Places
The Deindustrialized World opens a window on the experiences of those living at ground zero of deindustrialization and examines confrontations with the ruination of people and places on a global scale.
- Publication year: 2017
Health and Safety in Canadian Workplaces
- Publication year: 2016
Co-operative Canada
Empowering Communities and Sustainable Businesses
A comprehensive look at how Canadians are responding to the forces of globalization through collectively owned enterprises.
- Publication year: 2014
Sex Work
Rethinking the Job, Respecting the Workers
A lucid and unflinching argument for the reframing of the debate on sex work, ending limiting moralistic approaches, and respecting the unique perspectives of workers.
- Publication year: 2013
The Wages of Relief
Cities and the Unemployed in Prairie Canada, 1929-39
- Publication year: 2013
Solidarités Provinciales
Histoire de la Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Nouveau-Brunswick
On enseigne l’histoire tous les jours à l’école; pourquoi alors ne pourrait-on pas enseigner un peu d’histoire du travail de la province ou même du pays?
- Publication year: 2013
Academic Careers and the Gender Gap
An analysis of the institutional, academic, family, and personal contributors to the academic gender gap in liberal-state universities.
- Publication year: 2012
Reimagining Intervention in Young Lives
Work, Social Assistance, and Marginalization
Documents the experience of poverty, unemployment, homelessness, and intervention, and their effects on young people’s lives and social networks.
- Publication year: 2012
Pineros
Latino Labour and the Changing Face of Forestry in the Pacific Northwest
Sarathy draws on interviews, government documents, and media accounts to trace the Latinization of forest labour in the US Pacific Northwest and the marginalization of Latino workers.
- Publication year: 2012
Feminist Ethics and Social Policy
Towards a New Global Political Economy of Care
This volume addresses the theoretical and practical relationships among the feminization of migrant labour, the ethics of care, and social policy in the new global economy.
- Publication year: 2011
Age, Gender, and Work
Small Information Technology Firms in the New Economy
A unique examination of how age and gender inform the workplace and its culture in the new knowledge-based economy.
- Publication year: 2011
A Life in Balance?
Reopening the Family-Work Debate
This volume brings together feminist scholars from multiple disciplines to challenge the notion that work and family are two distinct areas of life in need of balance.
- Publication year: 2011
Unions, Equity, and the Path to Renewal
This feminist analysis of union renewal strategies suggests that equity is the way to reposition organized labour as a central institution in workers’ lives.
- Publication year: 2009
More Moments in Time
Images of Exemplary Nursing
Perry’s weaving of interviewee’s stories and her own field notes and poetry creates a very personal perspective on nursing that leaves the reader with a greater understanding of the experience, and rewards, of caring for others.
- Publication year: 2009
Solidarity First
Canadian Workers and Social Cohesion
Solidarity First examines the concept and practice of social cohesion in terms of its impact on, and significance for, workers in Canada.
- Publication year: 2008