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Series: Fear of a Black NationRace, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal2nd editionPaperback
David Austin9781771136334
$34.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
May 30, 2023
In the 1960s, Montreal was a hotbed of radical politics that attracted Black and Caribbean figures such as C.L.R. James, Walter Rodney, Mariam Makeba, Stokely Carmichael, Rocky Jones, and Édouard Glissant. It was also a place where the ideas of Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, and Malcolm X circulated alongside those of Karl Marx, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir. During this period of global upheaval and heightened Canadian and Quebec nationalism, Montreal became a central site of Black and Caribbean radical politics. Situating Canada w... + Read More
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Series: Cleaning UpPortuguese Women’s Fight for Labour Rights in TorontoPaperback
Susana P. Miranda9781771136266
$29.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Apr 04, 2023
This fascinating book uncovers the little-known, surprisingly radical history of the Portuguese immigrant women who worked as night-time office cleaners and daytime “cleaning ladies” in postwar Toronto. Drawing on union records, newspapers, and interviews, feminist labour historians Susana P. Miranda and Franca Iacovetta piece together the lives of immigrant women who bucked convention by reshaping domestic labour and by leading union drives, striking for workers’ rights, and taking on corporate capital in the heart of Toronto’s financial di... + Read More
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Series: Harvesting FreedomThe Life of a Migrant Worker in CanadaPaperback
Gabriel Allahdua9781771136181
$24.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Mar 07, 2023
In this singular firsthand account, a former migrant worker reveals a disturbing system of exploitation at the heart of Canada’s farm labour system. When Gabriel Allahdua applied to the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program in Canada, he thought he would be leaving his home in St. Lucia to work in a country with a sterling human rights reputation and commitment to multiculturalism. Instead, breakneck quotas and a culture of fear dominated his four years in a mega-greenhouse in Ontario. This deeply personal memoir takes readers behind the scen... + Read More
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Series: A Train in the NightThe Tragedy of Lac-MéganticPaperback
Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny9781771136105
$34.95
Nov 01, 2022
On a summer night in 2013, a runaway train loaded with explosive oil derailed in the small town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec. One of the deadliest rail disasters in Canadian history, Lac-Mégantic stands as a haunting narrative of how the powerful profit from collective tragedy. Who are the real culprits of the disaster that claimed 47 lives? In this vivid, full-colour work of graphic nonfiction, award-winning author Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny and illustrator Christian Quesnel trace the path of the locomotive from the scene of the crime all the way ba... + Read More
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Series: Thinking While BlackTranslating the Politics and Popular Culture of a Rebel GenerationPaperback
Daniel McNeil9781771136075
$24.95
Sep 27, 2022
This uniquely interdisciplinary study of Black cultural critics Armond White and Paul Gilroy spans continents and decades of rebellion and revolution. Drawing on an eclectic mix of archival research, politics, film theory, and pop culture, Daniel McNeil examines two of the most celebrated and controversial Black thinkers working today. Thinking While Black takes us on a transatlantic journey through the radical movements that rocked against racism in 1970s Detroit and Birmingham, the rhythms of everyday life in 1980s London and New York, and... + Read More
From the author of the best-selling Feminist City, this urbanite’s guide to gentrification knocks down the myths and exposes the forces behind the most urgent housing crisis of our time. Gentrification is no longer a phenomenon to be debated by geographers or downplayed by urban planners—it’s an experience lived and felt by working-class people everywhere. Leslie Kern travels to Toronto, Vancouver, New York, London, and Paris to look beyond the familiar and false stories we tell ourselves about class, money, and taste. What she brings back i... + Read More
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Series: Women Winning OfficeAn Activist’s Guide to Getting ElectedPaperback
Peggy Nash9781771135993
$25.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
May 02, 2022
When Peggy Nash first decided to run for elected office, she had no idea where to start, who to contact, or what the rules were. For those who are underrepresented in political life, politics can seem like a secret society designed to shut them out. Women Winning Office is a practical handbook for activist women on how to open doors and take their place in the political process. Find out how to build a team, get nominated, inspire volunteers, and canvass voters. Nash draws on her experience in five federal campaigns, as well as the stories o... + Read More
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Series: It Should Be Easy to FixPaperback
Bonnie Robichaud9781771135887
$25.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 08, 2022
In 1977, Bonnie Robichaud accepted a job at the Department of Defence military base in North Bay, Ontario. After a string of dead-end jobs, with five young children at home, Robichaud was ecstatic to have found a unionized job with steady pay, benefits, and vacation time. After her supervisor began to sexually harass and intimidate her, her story could have followed the same course as countless women before her: endure, stay silent, and eventually quit. Instead, Robichaud filed a complaint after her probation period was up. When a high-ranki... + Read More
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Series: Unsettling CanadaA National Wake-up Call2nd editionPaperback
Arthur Manuel9781771135566
$29.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Nov 29, 2021
A Canadian bestseller and winner of the 2016 Canadian Historical Association Aboriginal History Book Prize, Unsettling Canada is a landmark text built on a unique collaboration between two First Nations leaders. Arthur Manuel (1951–2017) was one of the most forceful advocates for Indigenous title and rights in Canada; Grand Chief Ron Derrickson, one of the most successful Indigenous businessmen in the country. Together, they bring a fresh perspective and bold new ideas to Canada’s most glaring piece of unfinished business: the place of Indig... + Read More
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Series: Wonder DrugLSD in the Land of Living SkiesPaperback
Hugh D.A. Goldring9781771135597
$21.95COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Nov 08, 2021
Could it be that the most remote frontiers of twenty-first-century exploration lie inside the human mind? Illustrated in kaleidoscopic full colour, Wonder Drug is the graphic history of a controversial and little-known medical research project carried out in the Canadian prairies—one that championed LSD as a way to model schizophrenia and cure ailments from alcoholism to depression. Spanning the decades from the 1950s to present day, this captivating story follows Anglo-Canadian psychiatrist Dr. Humphry Osmond down the rabbit hole of psyched... + Read More
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Series: TestimonioCanadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in GuatemalaPaperback
Catherine Nolin9781771135627
$29.95BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Oct 25, 2021
What is land? A resource to be exploited? A commodity to be traded? A home to cherish? In Guatemala, a country still reeling from thirty-six years of US-backed state repression and genocides, dominant Canadian mining interests cash in on the transformation of land into “property,” while those responsible act with near-total impunity. Editors Catherine Nolin and Grahame Russell draw on over thirty years of community-based research and direct community support work in Guatemala to expose the ruthless state machinery that benefits the Canadian ... + Read More
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Series: Shift ChangeScenes from a Post-industrial RevolutionPaperback
Stephen Dale9781771135535
$25.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Oct 04, 2021
Hamilton’s industrial age is over. In the steel capital of Canada, there are no more skies lit red by foundries at sunset, no more traffic jams at shift change. Instead, an urban renaissance is taking shape. But who wins and who loses in the city’s not-too-distant future? Is it possible to lift a downtrodden, post-industrial city out of poverty in a way that benefits people across the social spectrum, not just a wealthy elite? In Shift Change, author Stephen Dale sets up “the Hammer” as a battlefield, a laboratory, a chessboard. As investors... + Read More
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Series: Code WhiteSounding the Alarm on Violence against Health Care WorkersPaperback
Margaret M. Keith9781771135658
$25.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 01, 2021
When health care workers call a Code White, it’s an emergency response for a violent incident: a call for help. But it’s one that goes unanswered in hospitals, clinics, and long-term care homes across the country. Code White exposes a shocking epidemic of violence that’s hidden in plain sight, one in which workers are bruised, battered, assaulted, and demeaned, but carry on in silence, with little recourse or support. Researchers Margaret M. Keith and James T. Brophy lay bare the stories of over one hundred nurses and personal support worker... + Read More
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Series: Bent out of ShapeShame, Solidarity, and Women's Bodies at WorkPaperback
Karen Messing9781771135412
$24.95
Apr 05, 2021
Award-winning ergonomist Karen Messing is talking with women—women who wire circuit boards, sew clothes, clean toilets, drive forklifts, care for children, serve food, run labs. What she finds is a workforce in harm’s way, choked into silence, whose physical and mental health invariably comes in second place: underestimated, underrepresented, understudied, underpaid. Should workplaces treat all bodies the same? With confidence, empathy, and humour, Messing navigates the minefield that is naming sex and biology on the job, refusing to play in... + Read More
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Series: Fired Up about ConsentPaperback
Sarah Ratchford9781771133524
$19.95YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION
Mar 01, 2021
According to the World Health Organization, one in three women will be sexually or physically assaulted in her lifetime. These rates are very similar for non-binary people and other feminized people, too. This is rape culture, and young adults are living through it here and now. Fired Up about Consent is a practical, survivor-informed primer for young people who want to learn how to build joyful, mutually satisfying sex lives and relationships. In these pages, author Sarah Ratchford defines rape and sexual assault, busts the myths behind too... + Read More
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Series: Jeannie’s DemiseAbortion on Trial in Victorian TorontoPaperback
Ian Radforth9781771135139
$29.95HISTORY
Oct 18, 2020
August 1, 1875, Toronto: The naked body of a young woman is discovered in a pine box, half-buried in a ditch along Bloor Street. So begins Jeannie’s Demise, a real-life Victorian melodrama that played out in the bustling streets and courtrooms of “Toronto the Good,” cast with all the lurid stock characters of the genre. Historian Ian Radforth brings to life an era in which abortion was illegal, criminal proceedings were a spectator sport, and coded advertisements for back-alley procedures ran in the margins of newspapers. At the centre of th... + Read More
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Series: Brotherhood to NationhoodGeorge Manuel and the Making of the Modern Indian Movement2nd editionPaperback
Peter McFarlane9781771135108
$32.95BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Oct 01, 2020
Charged with fresh material and new perspectives, this updated edition of the groundbreaking biography Brotherhood to Nationhood brings George Manuel and his fighting tradition into the present. George Manuel (1920–1989) was the strategist and visionary behind the modern Indigenous movement in Canada. A three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, he laid the groundwork for what would become the Assembly of First Nations and was the founding president of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples. Authors Peter McFarlane and Doreen Manuel follow him o... + Read More
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Series: The Taste of LongingEthel Mulvany and Her Starving Prisoners of War CookbookPaperback
Suzanne Evans9781771134897
$28.95HISTORY
Sep 21, 2020
Half a world away from her home in Manitoulin Island, Ethel Mulvany is starving in Singapore’s infamous Changi Prison, along with hundreds of other women jailed there as POWs during the Second World War. They beat back pangs of hunger by playing decadent games of make-believe and writing down recipes filled with cream, raisins, chocolate, butter, cinnamon, ripe fruit – the unattainable ingredients of peacetime, of home, of memory. In this novelistic, immersive biography, Suzanne Evans presents a truly individual account of WWII through the e... + Read More
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Series: Going PublicA Survivor’s Journey from Grief to ActionPaperback
Julie Macfarlane9781771134750
$27.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sep 14, 2020
It took Julie Macfarlane a lifetime to say the words out loud – the words that finally broke the calm and traveled farther than she could have imagined. In this clear-eyed account, she confronts her own silence and deeply rooted trauma to chart a remarkable course from sexual abuse victim to agent of change. Going Public merges the worlds of personal and professional, activism and scholarship. Drawing upon decades of legal training, Macfarlane decodes the well-worn methods used by church, school, and state to silence survivors, from first re... + Read More
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Series: Enemy AlienA True Story of Life Behind Barbed WirePaperback
Kassandra Luciuk9781771134729
$21.95COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Mar 09, 2020
This graphic history tells the story of Canada’s first national internment operations through the eyes of John Boychuk, an internee held in Kapuskasing from 1914 to 1917. The story is based on Boychuk’s actual memoir, which is the only comprehensive internee testimony in existence. The novel follows Boychuk from his arrest in Toronto to Kapuskasing, where he spends just over three years. It details the everyday struggle of the internees in the camp, including forced labour and exploitation, abuse from guards, malnutrition, and homesickness. ... + Read More
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Series: Resilience Is FutileThe Life and Death and Life of Julie S. LalondePaperback
Julie S. Lalonde9781771134699
$23.95
Feb 27, 2020
For over a decade, Julie Lalonde, an award-winning advocate for women’s rights, kept a secret. She crisscrossed the country, denouncing violence against women and giving hundreds of media interviews along the way. Her work made national headlines for challenging universities and taking on Canada’s top military brass. Appearing fearless on the surface, Julie met every interview and event with the same fear in her gut: was he there? Fleeing intimate partner violence at age 20, Julie was stalked by her ex-partner for over ten years, rarely me... + Read More
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Series: Beyond Guilt TripsMindful Travel in an Unequal WorldPaperback
Anu Taranath9781771134323
$22.95TRAVEL
May 15, 2019
Every year, hundreds of thousands of young people pack their bags to study or volunteer abroad. Well-intentioned and curious Westerners—brought up to believe that international travel broadens our horizons—travel to low-income countries to learn about people and cultures different from their own. But while travel abroad can provide much-needed perspective, it can also be deeply unsettling, confusing, and discomforting. Travelers can find themselves unsure about how to think or speak about the differences in race or culture they find, even thou... + Read More
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Series: Radical AmbitionThe New Left in TorontoPaperback
Peter Graham9781771134231
$35.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
May 09, 2019
Writing for Maclean’s magazine in 1965, Peter Gzowski saw something different about the new generation of the left. They were not the agrarian radicals of old. They did not meet in union halls. Nor were they like the Beatniks that Gzowski had rubbed shoulders with in college. “The radicals of the New Left … differ from their predecessors not only in the degree of their protest but in its kind. They are a new breed.” Members of the New Left placed the ideals of self-determination and community at the core of their politics. As with all leftists... + Read More
White Spot, a popular BC restaurant chain, solicits hamburger concepts from third and fourth grade students and one of the student’s ideas becomes a feature on the kids’ menu. Home Depot donates playground equipment to an elementary school, and the ribbon-cutting ceremony culminates in a community swathed in corporate swag, temporary tattoos, and a new “Home Depot song” written by a teacher and sung by the children. Kindergarten students return home with a school district-prescribed dental hygiene flyer featuring a maze leading to a tube of Cr... + Read More
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Series: The Montreal ShtetlMaking Home After the HolocaustPaperback
Zelda Abramson9781771134040
$34.95HISTORY
Jan 29, 2019
As the Holocaust is memorialized worldwide through education programs and commemoration days, the common perception is that after survivors arrived and settled in their new homes they continued on a successful journey from rags to riches. While this story is comforting, a closer look at the experience of Holocaust survivors in North America shows it to be untrue. The arrival of tens of thousands of Jewish refugees was palpable in the streets of Montreal and their impact on the existing Jewish community is well-recognized. But what do we really... + Read More
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Series: 1919A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General StrikePaperback
Graphic History Collective9781771134200
$19.19COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Jan 22, 2019
In May and June 1919, more than 30,000 workers walked off the job in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They struck for a variety of reasons—higher wages, collective bargaining rights, and more power for working people. The strikers made national and international headlines, and they inspired workers to mount sympathy strikes in many other Canadian cities. Although the strike lasted for six weeks, it ultimately ended in defeat. The strike was violently crushed by police, in collusion with state officials and Winnipeg’s business elites. One hundred years late... + Read More
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Series: Marvellous GroundsQueer of Colour Formations in TorontoPaperback
Jin Haritaworn9781771133647
$29.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 18, 2018
Toronto has long been a place that people of colour move to in order to join queer of colour communities. Yet the city’s rich history of activism by queer and trans Black, Indigenous, and racialized people (QTBIPOC) remains largely unwritten and unarchived. While QTBIPOC have a long and visible presence in the city, they always appear as newcomers in queer urban maps and archives in which white queers appear as the only historical subjects imaginable. The first collection of its kind to feature the art, activism, and writings of QTBIPOC in T... + Read More
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Series: Fighting DirtyHow a Small Community Took on Big TrashPaperback
Poh-Gek Forkert9781771133241
$28.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Sep 04, 2017
Fighting Dirty tells the story of how one small group of farmers, small-town residents, and Indigenous people fought the world’s largest waste disposal company to stop them from expanding a local dumpsite into a massive landfill. As one of the experts brought in to assess the impact the toxic waste would have on the community, Poh-Gek Forkert was part of the adventures and misadventures of their decades-long fight.
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Series: Class PrivilegeHow Law Shelters Shareholders and Coddles CapitalismPaperback
Harry Glasbeek9781771133074
$34.95LAW
Apr 13, 2017
Capitalism’s agenda is the endless pursuit of private accumulation of socially produced wealth. In our system, the corporation—created by law—is meant to hide this agenda, to distract us so that flesh and blood capitalists can do what they like. But when the workings of the corporation are examined, they reveal a betrayal of the very values and norms that, for their legitimacy’s sake, capitalists in our parts of the world purport to share. Harry Glasbeek highlights one of capitalism’s weak spots–the perverting economic, political, and ethica... + Read More
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Series: Maththatmatters 2A teacher resource linking math and social justicePaperback
David Stocker9781771253123
$39.95EDUCATION
Jan 24, 2017
In his follow-up to the groundbreaking Maththatmatters, David Stocker gives us Maththatmatters2 a collection of 50 brilliant lessons for grades 6-9 that link mathematics and social justice. For educators keen to provide rich learning opportunities and differentiated content that engages students with their lived realities, these lessons are sure to spark meaningful discussions…and action.
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Series: Toronto’s PoorA Rebellious HistoryPaperback
Bryan D. Palmer9781771132817
$34.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Nov 23, 2016
Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how people without housing, people living in poverty, and unemployed people have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present. Written by a historian of the working class and a poor people’s activist, this is a rebellious book that links past and present in an almost two-hundred year story of struggle and resist... + Read More
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Series: The Vimy Trapor, How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Great WarPaperback
Ian McKay9781771132756
$29.95HISTORY
Oct 27, 2016
The story of the bloody 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge is, according to many of today’s tellings, a heroic founding moment for Canada. This noble, birth-of-a-nation narrative is regularly applied to the Great War in general. Yet this mythical tale is rather new. “Vimyism”— today’s official story of glorious, martial patriotism—contrasts sharply with the complex ways in which veterans, artists, clerics, and even politicians who had supported the war interpreted its meaning over the decades. Was the Great War a futile imperial debacle? A proud, nat... + Read More
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Series: A Future Without Hate or NeedThe Promise of the Jewish Left in CanadaPaperback
Ester Reiter9781771130165
$34.95HISTORY
Jul 14, 2016
Driven from their homes in Russia, Poland, and Romania by pogroms and poverty, many Jews who came to Canada in the wave of immigration after the 1905 Russian revolution were committed radicals. A Future Without Hate or Need brings to life the rich and multi-layered lives of a dissident political community, their shared experiences and community-building cultural projects, as they attempted to weave together their ethnic particularity—their identity as Jews—with their internationalist class politics.
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Series: Drawn to ChangeGraphic Histories of Working-Class StrugglePaperback
Graphic History Collective9781771132572
$29.95COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Mar 25, 2016
Canadian labour history and working-class struggles are brought to life in this anthology of nine short comics, each one accompanied by an informative preface. Each comic showcases the inspiring efforts and determination of working people who banded together with others to fight to change the world. The history of working-class struggle is a fascinating story of conflict and coercion, of resistance and triumph. It has the drama of defeat mixed with the thrill of victory, though not always in equal measure. But, working-class history is not j... + Read More
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Series: Cyber-ProletariatGlobal Labour in the Digital VortexPaperback
Nick Dyer-Witheford9781771132213
$26.95SOCIAL SCIENCE
Jul 16, 2015
The utopian promise of the internet, much talked about even a few years ago, has given way to brutal realities: coltan mines in the Congo, electronics factories in China, devastated neighborhoods in Detroit. Cyber-Proletariat shows us the dark-side of the information revolution through an unsparing analysis of class power and computerization. Dyer-Witheford investigates how technology facilitates growing polarization between wealthy elites and precarious workers. He reveals the class domination behind everything from expanding online surveil... + Read More
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Series: Lunch-Bucket LivesRemaking the Workers’ CityPaperback
Craig Heron9781771132121
$39.95HISTORY
Jun 03, 2015
Lunch-Bucket Lives takes the reader on a bumpy ride through the history of Hamilton’s working people from the 1890s to the 1930s. It ambles along city streets, peers through kitchen doors and factory windows, marches up the steps of churches and fraternal halls, slips into saloons and dance halls, pauses to hear political speeches, and, above all, listens for the stories of men, women, youths, and children from families where people relied mainly on wages to survive. Heron takes wage-earning as a central element in working-class life, but al... + Read More
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Series: ShamelessThe Fight for Adoption Disclosure and the Search for My SonPaperback
Marilyn Churley9781771131735
$26.95FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
Feb 25, 2015
In the late 1960s, at the age of eighteen and living far from home amidst the thriving counterculture of Ottawa, Marilyn Churley got pregnant. Like thousands of other women of the time she kept the event a secret. Faced with few options, she gave the baby up for adoption. Over twenty years later, as the Ontario NDP government’s minister responsible for all birth, death, and adoption records, including those of her own child, Churley found herself in a surprising and powerful position – fully engaged in the long and difficult battle to reform... + Read More
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Series: Pain and PrejudiceWhat Science Can Learn about Work from the People Who Do ItPaperback
Karen Messing9781771131476
$24.95SCIENCE
Aug 21, 2014
In 1978, when workers at a nearby phosphate refinery learned that the ore they processed was contaminated with radioactive dust, Karen Messing, then a new professor of molecular genetics, was called in to help. Unsure of what to do with her discovery that exposure to the radiation was harming the workers and their families, Messing contacted senior colleagues but they wouldn’t help. Neither the refinery company nor the scientific community was interested in the scary results of her chromosome studies. Over the next decades Messing encountere... + Read More
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Series: UnmannedDrone Warfare and Global SecurityPaperback
Ann Rogers9781771131537
$31.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Apr 17, 2014
Drones have become the controversial new weapon of choice for the US military abroad. Unmanned details the causes and deadly consequences of this terrifying new development in warfare, and explores the implications for international law and global peace. Ann Rogers and John Hill argue that drones represent the first truly globalized technology of war. The book shows how unmanned systems are changing not simply how wars are fought, but the meaning of conflict itself. Providing an unparalleled account of new forms of twenty-first century imp... + Read More
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Series: Fear of a Black NationRace, Sex, and Security in Sixties MontrealPaperback
David Austin9781771130103
$34.95HISTORY
May 27, 2013
In the 1960s, for at least a brief moment, Montreal became what seemed an unlikely centre of Black Power and the Caribbean left. In October 1968 the Congress of Black Writers at McGill University brought together well-known Black thinkers and activists from Canada, the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean–people like C.L.R. James, Stokely Carmichael, Miriam Makeba, Rocky Jones, and Walter Rodney. Within months of the Congress, a Black-led protest at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia) exploded on the front pages of newspapers ac... + Read More
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Series: Unlikely RadicalsThe Story of the Adams Mine Dump WarPaperback
Charlie Angus9781771130400
$24.95POLITICAL SCIENCE
Mar 14, 2013
For twenty-two years politicians and businessmen pushed for the Adams Mine landfill as a solution to Ontario’s garbage disposal crisis. This plan to dump millions of tonnes of waste into the fractured pits of the Adams Mine prompted five separate civil resistance campaigns by a rural region of 35,000 in Northern Ontario. Unlikely Radicals traces the compelling history of the First Nations people and farmers, environmentalists and miners, retirees and volunteers, Anglophones and Francophones who stood side by side to defend their community with... + Read More
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Series: Warrior NationRebranding Canada in an Age of AnxietyPaperback
Ian McKay9781926662770
$26.95HISTORY
May 26, 2012
Once known for peacekeeping, Canada is becoming a militarized nation whose apostles—-the New Warriors-—are fighting to shift public opinion. New Warrior zealots seek to transform postwar Canada’s central myth-symbols. Peaceable kingdom. Just society. Multicultural tolerance. Reasoned public debate. Their replacements? A warrior nation. Authoritarian leadership. Permanent political polarization. The tales cast a vivid light on a story that is crucial to Canada’s future; yet they are also compelling history. Swashbuckling marauder William Stai... + Read More
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Series: Committing TheatreTheatre Radicalism and Political Intervention in CanadaPaperback
Alan Filewod9781926662763
$31.95PERFORMING ARTS
Sep 26, 2011
Committing Theatre offers the first full-length historical study of political intervention theatre and theatrical spectatorship in English Canada. Building on twenty years of research and engagement in the field, this book’s historical narrative frames close-up examples of how theatre artists have intervened in and engaged with political struggle from the mid-19th century to the present. Lumber-camp mock trials, Mayday parades and street protests, the Workers Theatre Movement, agitprop theatre, the counter-culture theatre of the 1960s and 1970... + Read More
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Fighting Dirty How a Small Community Took on Big Trash Paperback 9781771133241 $28.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE Sep 04, 2017