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In this comprehensive glossary, the reader finds necessary definitions needed to navigate the labyrinth of terms and phrases used in development literature. It explains the origin of terms and places definitions within the historical context of the literature.

Contributors from a variety of academic disciplines, write about the extent to which multicultural policies and programs facilitate cultural freedom and equality of opportunities, for ethnic and racial minority group Canadians.

Inspiring educators, philosophers, activists, shamans, artists, and visionaries to take up the challenge of bringing alternative teaching possibilities and strategies to the educational experience, this book creatively combines Aboriginal teachings with feminist and antiracist theory and practice.

As well as Jean-Claude Parrot's story, this is also the story of the formation of a union. In this book, you will follow the life of one of Canada's greatest union leaders as he fought to give the workers a voice. You also learn about how the struggle was waged and how a union leadership worked tirelessly in the service of the union membership.

Documents how the political, economic and social policy changes of the last decade of the twentieth century helped and harmed different segments of Canadian society. Not about social policy models, theories or practices; this book is about how these come together to shape people's lives on a daily basis.

Fundamentalism has been thrust into the limelight by recent world events. In this text, the authors cast a wide net to include an array of ideological positions in social and cultural movements, as well as more traditional areas of religious practice.

The immigrant case studies in this text - Ghanaian women learning English, migrant women sex-workers in our cities, East Asian women and sexual harassment, and Canadian aid workers in the South - all contribute to performa reality check for the notion of Canada as a "caring and sharing" country.

How can campaigns organize to obtain their objectives? What mixtures of strategies work? "Perils and Possibilities" provides a guide to these issues and explores the types of questions activist groups need to ask themselves before embarking on a campaign of mobilization.

Conway explores topics that affect groups involved in social justice and offers some hard hitting analysis on how it is that small groups scattered around the world are able to affect change.

The inequalities in the treatment of individuals whose gender, race, class, or sexual orientation relegates them to a minority status are presented as the root cause of social, economic, and political problems in this survey of Canadian social issues.

These days almost anyone is bound to be depressed by the litany of economic woes we are told are besieging Canada. At the same time, mainstream economists, politicians and business leaders claim that workers wages must fall, the social safety net must be stripped away, taxes must be cut and environmental regulations must be relaxed. There Is No Alternative if Canada is to be competitive."