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Arguing that food is peculiarly situated to address the ills of an unjust economic structure, this analysis illustrates how the food system fails growing numbers of people across the world every day. While hunger, obesity, and food-borne illness have all increased in recent years, this study reveals that ubiquitous commitments to change still exist, including food movements and enterprises dedicated to making the world a better place to eat and live. From farmers' markets to fair-trade coffee, food initiatives offer a pattern of powerful alternatives to conventional food economics; for, the guide asserts, conventional food economics only benefit a handful of people and corporations. Controversial and eloquent, this examination suggests how the general population can mobilize against an unfair economic system in order to improve their daily diets.

Founded on 20 years of experience in women's shelters and sexual assault centers, this striking overview addresses the oppressive hierarchies and abuses of authority witnessed in these settings. From the separation between clients and management to an executive director misusing power, this study shows how the most egalitarian, community-based, healthy, and peaceful group of women can be destroyed by an agency managed according to male, corporate principles. Searching for answers to these issues, this shocking survey is a heartbreaking reminder of the burden many women still carry, even within the walls of established sanctuaries.

Examining the social and political implications of Video Lottery Terminal (VLT) misuse, this authoritative study describes the links between financial stress, physical and mental health issues, depression, alcohol dependency, marital break-up, and suicidal desires with pathological gambling. Contrasting the social fallout from VLTs--the most addictive gambling activity--with government inaction, the lack of substantive public policy is called to question in light of the annual revenue figures derived from gambling. This perceptive report investigates increasingly politicized discussions surrounding VLTs, and serves as a clarion call to governments to take action.

Through a study of education reform in Latin America, this inquiry examines how the World Bank functions like a modern-day missionary. Analyzing the accounting procedures embedded in the Bank`s loan agreements, this account illustrates how the institution diffuses its neoliberal perspective on development throughout the world, arguing that the Bank does not just lend money--it imposes its ideology on its recipient countries as well. Thus the tools of missionary work have changed: while the promise of betterment and salvation remains, a testament of planning mechanisms, performance indicators, and financial reports has replaced the Bible.

Tells the story of how a group of largely provincial civil servants and politicians came together in the face of neoliberal hegemony to advance the national child Benefit, national children's, Agenda and Social Union Framework Agreement. This study shows how Canadian federalism was made to work and where it failed to work.

Shows how BC's successful public energy system is being supplanted by a deregulated private electrical system. This book says that the government has gone to extraordinary lengths to provide a supportive financial, environmental, legal and ownership framework to assist the growth of private energy investments in BC.

Explores the origins of twin crises (in the context of peak oil and climate change) and evaluates the various solutions being advanced. This book is useful to those seeking an introduction to the issues, as well as those looking for a greater depth of analysis.

The criminalization and penalization of poverty through increased surveillance and control of welfare recipients has led many poverty advocates to claim that "a war against the poor" is in progress. This book argues that people of colour are most often the casualties in the governments' desire to roll back the welfare state.

While death is an inevitable happening in our lives, the perspectives that we hold about death and dying are socially constructed. This text takes us through the issues, both social and personal, which surround death and dying in our country. It challenges us to examine our own thoughts, feelings and fears - of the death and dying phenomena.