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Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada's Challenge
Neoliberalism – idealizing free-market capitalism – sets the boundaries for how we are governed in Canada, no matter who is in power. Author ALEX HIMELFARB explores why these ideas persist when the need for dramatic action on issues like inequality and global warming is obvious to all.
$27.95, paperbackThe Scandalous Rise of Inequality in Canada
A distinguished economist breaks the silence and explains why most Canadians are stuck — while a few grow rapidly more wealthy
$27.95, paperbackHumans: The 300,000-Year Struggle for Equality
For 300,000 years humans have pushed for equality in their societies. For the first time ever, historian Alvin Finkel brings together the evidence to tell the story of the 99% who have constantly sought to live in a society of equals.
$25.95, paperbackCanada vs California
Canada vs California provides a road map of the tense battle between Canadian content and California's billion dollar businesses that threaten to drown it out.
$27.95, paperbackCondo Questions and Answers: Ontario Edition
In Condo Questions and Answers, author Sally Thompson gives Ontario condo residents exactly what they need to get the most out of their homes.
$27.95, paperbackEnding Homelessness in Canada
Homelessness is at critical levels. This book identifies the causes and offers ideas about what it will take to prevent Canadians from finding themselves without a roof over their head.
$27.95, paperbackJ.B. McLachlan: A Biography, New Edition
The story of famed Cape Breton trade unionist, educator, and agitator J.B. McLachlan, the coal miners’ wars of the early twentieth century, and the fight for social justice.
$39.95, paperbackGigs, Hustles, & Temps
“Precarious work” contributes to rampant inequality, increased insecurity, and the crisis of public and mental health. “Gigs, Hustles, and Temps” explains why.
$27.95, paperbackToronto: City of Commerce 1800-1960
Archival images and contemporary photos illuminate the history of Toronto's businesses and industries.
$29.95, paperbackMining Country
Mining Country offers the stories of Canadian miners from past and present, from pre-settlement aboriginal mines to the development of Vancouver and Toronto as centres of global mining finance.$29.95, paperbackShare the Wealth!
This book shows how Canada’s steadily increasing wealth — which has mostly gone to the top one per cent over the last 20 years — can be successfully taxed to pay for the social programs Canadians need and want, from pharmacare and child care to better care for the elderly to much lower costs for post-secondary students.
$24.95, paperbackBasic Income for Canadians
This book, updated in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, presents the evidence for the health and wellbeing benefits of providing a basic income to everyone in Canada who needs it.
$24.95, paperbackThe Canadian Labour Movement
The triumphs and setbacks of workers and the union movement in Canada
$27.95, paperbackBlackBerry Town
A new history of the Blackberry innovation that documents how the resources and people of Kitchener-Waterloo supported, facilitated and benefited from the achievement that Blackberry represents$24.95, paperbackWinnipeg 1919
The most important primary document from the Winnipeg General Strike now back in print with a new introduction on the occasion of the strike's 100th anniversary$24.95, paperbackA New Kind of Union
Longtime trade unionist Fred Wilson's behind the scenes account of the merger between the CEP and CAW to form Unifor — Canada's largest private sector union.$24.95, paperbackThe Tangled Garden
This book explains the breakdown of Canadian cultural industries and outlines that for them to be saved we must adapt cultural policy to the digital age.$24.95, paperbackBeyond Shelters
Homelessness can be ended in Canada, and in this book leading shelter operators share their experience and their proposals about how this can be done, city by city.$24.95, paperbackOil and World Politics
Petroleum is at the root of most conflicts in the world today. It infiltrates politics and is closely associated with power. This book offers new understanding of what has been happening in world's "hot spot" countries.$27.95, paperbackFrom Bombs to Books
The powerful role of schools in the experience of refugee children and teens and their parents in becoming part of Canadian society
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