Publishing Division: 2717 books
by Gerald Hunt, David Rayside
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2007
In recent years, the Canadian labour movement has undergone fundamental change in response to demands for greater inclusion and representation by women, visible and sexual minorities, and people with disabilities. Equity, Diversity, and Canadian Labour explores the specific challenges put to outmoded...
Producing and Negotiating Non-Citizenship
Precarious Legal Status in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Most examinations of non-citizens in Canada focus on immigrants, people who are citizens-in-waiting, or specific categories of temporary, vulnerable workers. In contrast, Producing and Negotiating Non-Citizenship considers a range of people whose pathway to citizenship is uncertain or non-existent....
Human Welfare, Rights, and Social Activism
Rethinking the Legacy of J.S. Woodsworth
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2010
J.S. Woodsworth, a founding member and leader of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (forerunner of the New Democratic Party) and member of Parliament, was a social policy pioneer who promoted human welfare and rights over interests of property or finance. The essays in Human Welfare, Rights,...
Hard Choices
Financial Exclusion, Fringe Banks and Poverty in Urban Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
When low-income city dwellers lack access to mainstream banking services, many end up turning to ‘fringe banks,’ such as cheque-cashers and pawnshops, for some or all of their financial transactions. This predicament of ‘financial exclusion’ – faced by those underserved by conventional financial...
Industrial Sunset
The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Plant shutdowns in Canada and the United States from 1969 to 1984 led to an ongoing and ravaging industrial decline of the Great Lakes Region. Industrial Sunset offers a comparative regional analysis of the economic and cultural devastation caused by the shutdowns, and provides an insightful examination...
The City Below The Hill
The Slums of Montreal, 1897
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
The city below the hill is a detailed investigation of social conditions in a working class quarter of Montreal during the 1890s. Based on a house-to-house survey of the neighbourhood, this study catalogues and analyses the life of working people after the first years of rapid industrialization.
Sir...
Urban Systems Development in Central Canada
Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
This anthology of research is divided into five sections: definition of the urban system, structural characteristics, distribution of urban growth, transportation networks and interaction between cities, and the impact of growth on urban behaviour and the rural economy. Each section is preceded by...
by H.C. Eastman, Bruce Wilkinson, H. Edward English
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
The Private Planning Association of Canada initiated the Atlantic Economic Studies Program to study the implications for Canada of trade liberalization and closer economic integration among the nations bordering the North Atlantic. Over twenty studies by leading economists, which point out the significance...
Understanding Climate Change
Science, Policy, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Conversations about climate change are filled with challenges involving complex data, deeply held values, and political issues. Understanding Climate Change provides readers with a concise, accessible, and holistic picture of the climate change problem, including both the scientific and human dimensions.
Understanding...
Our War on Ourselves
Rethinking Science, Technology, and Economic Growth
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2011
Our approach to knowing and doing is based on delegating physical phenomena to physicists, biological phenomena to biologists, social phenomena to sociologists, economic phenomena to economists, and so on. This approach to knowledge and practice works very well when one category of phenomena dominates...
by Werner Antweiler
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
As businesses face an increasing array of environmental challenges, including climate change, air and water pollution, and solid waste management, environmental management has become an increasingly important area of expertise. Elements of Environmental Management is an interdisciplinary textbook...
by Seung Hyok Lee
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
In 1998 and in 2006, North Korea conducted ballistic missile tests that landed dangerously close to Japan. In the first case, the North Korean tests provoked only Japanese alarm and severely constrained action. In the second, the tests led to unilateral economic sanctions – the first time since...
Uncle Sam and Us
Globalization, Neoconservatism, and the Canadian State
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2002
Between them, Brian Mulroney and Jean Chrétien radically altered the structure and functions of the federal government, first by signing and implementing major trade liberalization projects, and then by cutting back the size of their governments' budgets and the scope of their policies. Uncle Sam...
Escape from the Staple Trap
Canadian Political Economy after Left Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
From fur and fish to oil and minerals, Canadian development has often been understood through its relationship to export staples. This understanding, argues Paul Kellogg, has led many political economists to assume that Canadian economic development has followed a path similar to those of staple-exporting...