Injury and the New World of Work
Examines a broad range of research solutions and policy options for dealing with the critical state of workers' compensation.
- Copyright year: 2000
Wired to the World, Chained to the Home
Telework in Daily Life
Will working from home solve many of society's ills, or create new ghettos? This book analyzes the experiences to look at workload, mobility, work status and gender to understand the implications of telecommuting on employment policies, community planning and daily life patterns.
- Copyright year: 2001
Sex and Borders
Gender, National Identity and Prostitution Policy in Thailand
A compelling exploration of the complex relationship between Thai national identity and prostitution and gender.
- Copyright year: 2002
Training the Excluded for Work
Access and Equity for Women, Immigrants, First Nations, Youth, and People with Low Income
In an attempt to redress social inequities in the workplace, the authors examine various kinds of training programs and recommend specific policy initiatives to improve access to these programs.
- Copyright year: 2003
The Co-Workplace
Teleworking in the Neighbourhood
Borrowing from the experience of cooperative artists' studios, business incubators, and the corner copy shop, this book explains why office infrastructure can be important for productivity as well as the quality of work life.
- Copyright year: 2002
If I Had a Hammer
Retraining That Really Works
This book is about poor women, many of them single mothers, Aboriginal, or both, who have defied the odds to become apprenticing carpenters.
- Copyright year: 2005
Sex Workers in the Maritimes Talk Back
Sex workers in three Maritime cities discuss violence and safety, health, politics, and public perception of the trade, portraying the best and the worst facets of their working lives.
- Copyright year: 2006
Organizing the Transnational
Labour, Politics, and Social Change
This collection articulates a multi-level cultural politics of transnationalism to frame contemporary analyses of immigration and diasporas.
- Copyright year: 2007
Guarding the Gates
The Canadian Labour Movement and Immigration, 1872-1934
A pioneering study of Canadian labour leaders’ approach to immigration from the 1870s to the Great Depression.
- Copyright year: 2007
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.
- Copyright year: 2008
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.
- Copyright year: 2009
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.
- Copyright year: 2009
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.
- Copyright 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.
- Copyright year: 2011
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.
- Copyright year: 2011
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.
- Copyright 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.
- Copyright year: 2012
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.
- Copyright year: 2012
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?
- Copyright year: 2013
The Wages of Relief
Cities and the Unemployed in Prairie Canada, 1929-39
- Copyright year: 2013