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Neoliberalism and Everyday Life
Joining the chorus of Canadian voices offering alternative economic prescriptions and critiques in the wake of the 2008 economic crisis, the contributors to Neoliberalism and Everyday Life offer one of the more sweeping and varied contributions to date.
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Winnipeg in the days of the great war and the general strike
Studies of the political fallout for the labour movement in the wake of World War have a rich history in the United States, but since the 1970s there has been a relative paucity of mainstream scholarship on the subject in Canada.
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Feminism: down but not out
Both a call to arms and a guide towards broader points of redress for the hard times within Canadian women’s movements.
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On the lighter side
William Deverell’s Snow Job and Martin Duberman’s Haymarket.
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Reviews: Vancouver’s east side
Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is never far from the news.
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Review: Chomsky on Anarchism
As tall as the figure of Noam Chomsky stands in the tradition of Western political activism and the counterculture at large, recent releases have met with criticism in some quarters on the grounds that they contribute little more than the rehashing of spent critiques.
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Review: Terrorism and the Economy: How the War On Terror Is Bankrupting the World
While the root of the crisis lies within the capitalist system itself, economist Loretta Napoleoni chooses to focus on the many ways in which the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have contributed to this crisis.
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Review: The Crimes of Empire: Rogue Superpower and World Domination
The Crimes of Empire serves to bookend Boggs’ troika of works which detail the gradual entrenchment of militarism in the American social consciousness and its role in powering global imperial designs.
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Review: Unions, Equity and the Path to Renewal
Unions face serious problems in the twenty-first century, including a major participatory and democratic deficit. How should we address these problems in order to “renew” unions?
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Review: Our Friendly Local Terrorist
The book centers around Suleyman Goven, a Turkish Kurd living in Toronto, whose landed immigrant application is tacitly inferred by officials to be hinging on his participation in domestic spying operations.
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