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Gary Teeple makes the case that "human rights" are peculiar to an historically given mode of production.

Change of Plans raises questions that are not commonly posed, suggests new avenues for thought in city planning, and contributes to the growing literature on sustainability by merging it with a feminist approach.

The publication of First World Hunger is a timely and important contribution to the debate about hunger and poverty in advanced market economies.

Patients and health care workers describe their experiences in the private health care sector and their responses challenge the assumptions of private-sector advocates, with implications reaching far beyond Canadian hospitals.

Regulating Labour presents case studies from various countries, using the social and political insights of Gramsci and other progressive thinkers.

The articles in this book have a common theme; they explore relationships between cultural forms and various aspects of political struggle.

A careful reading of this book will help us to understand what some of our most cherished institutions will look like under a profit oriented private system.

Drawing on UN and other mainstream data, it includes the facts, history, political and economic analysis found in a conventional reference work, but also has information on human rights, environmental and social issues central to the lives of people throughout the world.

Based on the Steelworker Families and Hamilton Families Projects, D.W. Livingstone and Marshall Mangan revise the materialist approach to group consciousness, employing a Marxist-Feminist perspective to discuss practices in the household sphere and the production of goods and services in the paid workplace.

"The diverse cases and experiences examined in this book hold valuable lessons for labour everywhere." - Elaine Bernard, Harvard Law School

The indepth analysis of social policy issues and their implications for social work practice provided in this book will be a vital tool both for those involved in social work practice and those studying and implementing social policies.

Vital Signs focuses on nursing work, but offers lessons about the state and women's work that go well beoynd the health care sector.

Using an analysis grounded in political economy, this book contends that cultural inequality is a result of structural factors and discusses new ways of thinking about race, ethnicity, education and the organization of knowledge.

This book reflects each contributor's vision of the future, visions that range from the enthusiastic and hopeful to the pessimistic and fearful.

This book begins with the international context for health care reform and then moves from coast to coast, setting out what is known about the reforms in health care privatization that are underway and about their impact on women.

Voices from the Classroom will have a broad appeal to the university teaching community across North America, facing common challenges in the twenty-first century.

Globalization and the rightward shift in politics in recent years have de-legitimated and largely dismantled the Keynesian welfare state that developed in the thirty year period after World War II.

This book will contribute to a better understanding of workplace change, the role of new technologies, the debate on lean production and empowerment of the workforce, the information highway, work and the environment, and the possibilities of shorter work hours.

When first published in 1992, this major collection rapidly established itself as the leading text on Social Movements to be published in North America.

The publication of Paqtatek is one way to address the void in the literature on Aboriginal Peoples.

This analysis begins with a discussion of theoretical issues involved in democratic, participatory, alternative, and community communications.

Few Choices examines the few choices that confront women today in their efforts to balance paid work and family life.

"Making Western Canada challenges uncritical historiies of a peaceful, orderly and anglocentric Canadian West. Collectively, its authors suggest the potential of more inclusive histories based on the social relationships that knit the region's history..." Elizabeth Jameson, Department of History, University of Calgary

The contributors to this book share their perspective on how the resistance struggle is being waged in fishing villages, farms, coal mines and industrial work places in the Atlantic region.

The study of pornography is used here for the first time to demonstrate the role of the state in manipulating 'social problems' through moral panic.

This significant book explores the connections between the university and industry, and how these prevent the production and dissemination of knowledge beneficial to society as a whole.

Ghosts in the Machine provides a feminist analysis of cultural policy in Australia and Canada in the context of these countries' post-colonial histories, ""modernization,"" and recent moves toward deregulation and privatization in the cultural sector.

The contributors build on recent scholarship to establish the reproductive sector as a series of interconnected private (family) and public (state) institutions, developing an analysis of the relationship between the welfare state and the imperatives of the wider economy.