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- ar-14404
- author: Daggett, Lyle
- title: Political Poetry
- date: 2010-10-25
- words: 1959
- flesch: 63
- summary: The fact is that left- wing political poetry, taken as a whole, is better poetry than poetry in which the poet has tried to leave politics out of it, or in which the poet has deliberately written from a right-wing perspective (I suppose a few examples of the latter do exist). Some people argue that there is much badly written political poetry — that much of it reads like a political pamphlet chopped into line breaks, or sing-song rhyming doggerel — and that this proves that political subject matter is not suited to poetry.
- keywords: alternate; art; better; blake; class; critical; culture; dante; examples; good; journal; left; love; mao; mcgrath; nature; place; poem; poetry; poets; political; politics; populist; public; realism; right; routes; similar; social; subject; thing; thomas; time; tone; william; wing; work; working
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- ar-14405
- author: Henry, Aaron
- title: Multinational [G]rape Corporation
- date: 2010-10-25
- words: 1481
- flesch: 55
- summary: Market society then, produces not only fragmented subjects but the com- plete fragmentation of social life. This structure has a number of important effects that taken together form Cinar’s critique of capitalist society—a critique that goes far beyond being merely anti-consumerist and anti-security, as other reviewers have commented on.
- keywords: adobe; capitalist; cinar; corporation; couple; g]rape; man; market; mgc; multinational; pdf; play; reader; relations; scene; security; social; society; subjects; version; woman
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- ar-14406
- author: Erdagi, Bora
- title: Eyes Wide Shut
- date: 2010-10-25
- words: 2172
- flesch: 65
- summary: Alice suddenly starts asking Bill questions about their relationship. It tells the story of an upper-middle class New York couple (Bill Harford performed by Tom Cruise and Alice Harford performed by Nicole Kidman) who lose their way upon having a few existential crises in three consecutive days.
- keywords: alice; awareness; bill; bourgeoisie; class; critical; dream; experiences; eyes; film; harford; kubrick; life; masks; position; reality; relationship; sex; shut; sleep; social; story; way; wide; world
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- ar-14408
- author: Lefebvre, Priscillia
- title: About Canada: Animal Rights
- date: 2010-10-25
- words: 1512
- flesch: 38
- summary: John Sorenson delivers an extensive analysis of animal rights in Canada, which is both extremely disturbing and informative. Because of its broad nature, Sorenson does not delve into an exhaustive analysis of any one topic but provides the reader with an excellent overview of the legal, historical, and social issues surrounding animal rights in Canada as well as the arguments, misconcep- tions, and industry propaganda embedded within it.
- keywords: animal; broader; canada; discussion; examples; exploitation; fur; humans; hunt; industry; issues; justice; killing; oppression; people; production; profit; public; research; rights; seal; social; sorenson; suffering; use; veganism
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- ar-14409
- author: Ozcan, Gulden
- title: Cops, Crime & Capitalism: The Law and Order Agenda in Canada
- date: 2010-10-25
- words: 1734
- flesch: 44
- summary: Gordon, by conducting a careful empirical study of legal regulations, demonstrates how police practices have served the systematic subordination of racialised and gendered populations in Canada. Although Gordon’s approach to police as a state-centred strategy leaves some questions unanswered such as the ever-increasing numbers of private police, he provides an accessible account to remind us that po- licing is a strategy driven by a moral discourse on the importance of employment and self-discipline, rather than a strategy to fight crime.
- keywords: approach; book; canada; capitalism; chapter; class; crime; critical; distance; foucault; gordon; immigrants; immigration; labour; law; non; order; police; policies; policing; power; relations; social; state; theories; work
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- ar-14410
- author: kokallaj, Alda
- title: The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet
- date: 2010-10-25
- words: 1198
- flesch: 44
- summary: Foster’s main achievement is to draw together a difficult body of theory with urging po- litical questions and convincingly argue that it is high time ecological crises were addressed via a socialist, as opposed to a capitalist, approach. More generally, from Foster’s argument it can be discerned that in the face of ecological crises we need to think and act beyond disciplinary boundaries.
- keywords: book; capitalist; crisis; development; discussion; ecological; economy; environmental; foster; human; marx; nature; planet; political; revolution; social; sociology; work
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- ar-14411
- author: Fanelli, Carlo
- title: In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown & Left Alternatives
- date: 2010-10-25
- words: 1521
- flesch: 39
- summary: Albo, Gindin and Panitch remind the reader that the classical meaning of crisis is turning point, to which they ask: Has the crisis marked a turning point in the balance of class power and the organization of the state? He can be reached at cfanelli@connect.carleton.ca In And Out Of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives 172 Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research Fortunately, the authors have preemptively summarized the outline of the book (p.25): ‘Chapter one explores whether or not we are currently witnessing the end of neoliberalism; chapter two engages in current debates regarding the nature of capitalist crises, and the relationship be- tween the state, finance and production in a neoliberal era; chap- ter three traces the historical process through which, over a cen- tury punctuated by previous cries, the American State and finance developed in tandem, and came to play a new kind of imperial role at the centre of global capitalism; chapter four traces the de- velopment of the crisis that began in 2007 and explains the active role of the American state, both under Bush and Obama, in con- taining the crisis in ways that reproduced the structures of class inequality and power domestically and internationally; chapter five analyses how the relationship between industry and finance played itself out in the auto sector, bringing to the fore the full class dimensions of the crisis; chapter six reflects on the impasse of the North American labour movement and the implications for the North American Left; and Chapter seven tries to think creatively about alternatives, not least in terms of how advancing the case for democratic economic planning, including the nation- alization of the banks and auto industry, must become integrated with demands for immediate reforms.’
- keywords: albo; alternatives; american; authors; book; capitalist; chapter; class; crisis; finance; financial; gindin; global; industry; labour; left; meltdown; neoliberalism; new; panitch; power; social; state; structures; world
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- ar-14412
- author: Hilchey, Edward
- title: Canada's 1960s: The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era
- date: 2010-10-25
- words: 1315
- flesch: 51
- summary: Palmer sets the stage by contextualizing events within the broader history affect- ing Canada in the post-war era. 177 The conclusion ends with the vanguard of British Canada gathering with the world in Montreal’s Expo 67, celebrating Canada’s arrival into the modern era.
- keywords: 1960s; book; british; canada; canadian; era; events; history; identity; image; ironies; movements; pages; palmer; period; political; rebellious; red; social; war; work; world; youth
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- ar-14414
- author: Evans, Bryan; Albo, Greg
- title: Permanent Austerity: The Politics of the Canadian Exit Strategy from Fiscal Stimulus
- date: 2010-10-25
- words: 9860
- flesch: 48
- summary: And a third exit – and the focus of the most heated political debate – is from deficit-spending fiscal policies toward public sector austerity. The general notion, expressed at the Toronto G20 Summit and other international meetings, is cutting public sector deficits in half by 2013, and phasing in a reduction of debt to GDP rations after 2016.
- keywords: 2010; alternate; assets; august; austerity; available; balanced; bank; board; budget; budgetary; canada; canadian; canadian exit; capitalist; case; cent; central; coalition; collapse; common; conservative; core; corporate; credit; crisis; critical; cuts; debt; december; deficit; department; economic; economic crisis; economy; emergency; example; exit; exit strategy; federal; finance; financial; financial crisis; fiscal; fiscal stimulus; gdp; general; global; government; growth; harper; health; high; imf; income; increase; institutions; investment; january; jobs; journal; key; largest; levels; liberals; march; market; measures; minister; mortgage; national; neoliberal; new; november; number; ontario; opposition; parties; party; pay; percent; permanent; plan; policies; policy; political; politics; private; programs; projects; provinces; provincial; public; public sector; public services; quebec; regulatory; rescue; research; response; result; routes; sector; sector workers; september; services; social; spending; state; stimulus; strategy; support; system; tax; turn; unions; wages; workers; world; year
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- ar-14416
- author: Fanelli, Carlo; Hurl, Chris
- title: Janus-Faced Austerity: Strengthening the
- date: 2010-10-25
- words: 9481
- flesch: 47
- summary: Wait another ten years and the estimated cost to rectify this dilemma rises from $20 billion to $30 billion as nearly 40 percent of federal service workers are expected to retire in the next five years. It is argued that while social services and spending are restricted for certain seg- ments of the Canadian working class, new arrangements and spend- ing initiatives are rolled out by the federal government in order to fuel enhanced capital accumulation.
- keywords: accumulation; addition; advanced; aim; albo; alternate; alternatives; anderson; arrangements; assets; austerity; average; away; banks; benefits; budget; business; canada; canadian; canadian state; capital; capitalist; central; class; competitive; conservatives; contracts; control; costs; crisis; critical; current; cuts; debt; domestic; economic; economy; eds; election; employees; energy; environmental; example; expected; fact; federal; federal government; federalism; finance; financial; fiscal; foreign; free; gains; global; goods; governance; government; groups; hand; harper; health; income; instance; institutional; international; investment; janus; journal; labour; life; local; long; market; means; measures; militancy; minister; national; need; neoliberalism; new; ontario; order; particular; past; pensions; percent; policies; policy; political; power; press; private; privatization; profit; provinces; provision; public; real; recent; relations; research; restraint; routes; sector; services; short; social; social services; spending; state; stimulus; strategies; strategy; supports; tax; taxes; term; time; toronto; trade; union; wages; welfare; words; workers; working; workplace; world; years
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- ar-14417
- author: Li, Minqi
- title: Can Global Capitalism Be Saved?
- date: 2010-10-25
- words: 7847
- flesch: 51
- summary: It is the global semi-periphery (China, India, Russia, and Latin America) that could prove to be the focus of global capitalist contradictions. This is the basic political question confronting global working classes.
- keywords: accumulation; alternate; basic; capitalist; capitalist economy; century; china; chinese; class; classes; conditions; consumption; contradiction; costs; countries; crisis; critical; deficits; demand; development; early; ecological; economic; economies; economy; effective; engels; environmental; european; exit; expansion; exploitation; exports; figure; financial; fiscal; following; force; gdp; global; global capitalism; global economy; government; growth; high; historical; household; humanity; increase; international; investment; japan; journal; labor; large; long; major; market; massive; national; neoliberalism; new; percent; periphery; political; power; press; problem; production; profit; rate; research; resource; revolutionary; routes; run; second; sector; semi; share; social; socialist; state; strategies; struggle; surplus; system; terms; total; trade; wages; war; website; western; workers; working; world; years; york
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- ar-14418
- author: Schmidt, Ingo
- title: European Capitalism: Varieties of Crisis
- date: 2010-10-25
- words: 6539
- flesch: 52
- summary: European Capitalism: Varieties of Crisis 82 Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research What media commentators fail to mention is that EU core countries were eager to get Greece on board the EMU to underscore the country’s strategic position and get some level of control over its merchandise fleet. Presenting experiences from a number of EU countries, this article will look at centre – periphery relations, macroeconomic imbalances and the design of the EMU as key factors that can explain why speculative attacks against an economically small country like Greece, contributing about 2.5% to the EU’s total GDP, translated into a severe crisis of European capitalism (European Central Bank 2010).
- keywords: 1990s; account; alternate; austerity; boom; bourgeoisie; britain; british; capitalism; case; city; core; countries; country; credit; crisis; critical; current; debt; deficits; demand; domestic; early; eastern; economic; economy; emu; european; european capitalism; export; finance; financial; fiscal; foreign; france; french; gdp; german; government; greece; greek; growth; high; housing; hungary; imf; industrial; integration; international; ireland; italian; italy; journal; keynesian; london; markets; membership; neoliberal; new; peripheral; piigs; policies; political; position; private; production; public; research; result; routes; social; socialist; soviet; state; street; studies; surpluses; table; varieties; vol; wall; way; world
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- ar-14419
- author: Radice, Hugo
- title: Cutting Government Deficits: Economic Science or Class War?
- date: 2010-10-25
- words: 7270
- flesch: 50
- summary: Although the turn of the millennium was accompanied by further outbreaks of financial crisis—for instance, the ‘dot.com’ stock-market bust and Argentina in 2001—a new wave of global economic growth accompanied by low inflation appeared to justify the self-satisfied claim that ‘the ‘Great Moderation’ had arrived (Bernanke, 2004). The triumph of neoliberalism – and globalization While the Third World was devastated by the debt crisis of the 1980s (Hag- gard & Kaufman, 1992), the UK and US financial sectors pressed forward with deregulation at home and expansion abroad, laying the basis for their joint domi- nation of global financial markets.
- keywords: 1970s; alternate; banks; britain; business; capital; capitalist; case; central; class; classes; clear; coalition; consensus; countries; crisis; critical; cuts; debt; deficits; democracy; development; economic; economy; employment; excessive; finance; financial; fiscal; global; globalization; government; government deficits; growth; historical; ifs; income; inflation; interest; international; investment; journal; keynesian; labour; left; london; long; mainstream; markets; marx; monetary; money; neoliberalism; new; order; particular; parties; policies; policy; political; politics; post; power; press; private; production; public; radical; radice; rates; recession; reforms; research; response; result; right; rise; routes; rule; savings; science; second; sector; shift; social; society; spending; state; terms; trade; union; usa; war; way; workers; working; world; years
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- ar-14420
- author: Wolff, Richard
- title: The Keynesian Revival: a Marxian Critique
- date: 2010-10-25
- words: 4266
- flesch: 42
- summary: Second, the promise that has almost always accompanied each application of Keynesian policies 1 Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and currently Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University in New York City. Different combinations of these components characterize Keynesian policies in different countries and at different historical moments.
- keywords: alternative; average; bureau; capitalism; costs; crisis; critical; critique; cycles; different; earnings; economics; economy; employers; end; enterprises; faire; figure; great; green; historical; hourly; journal; keynesian; keynesian policies; labor; laissez; left; level; manufacturing; marxian; micro; neoclassical; new; policies; policy; political; private; production; productivity; real; regimes; research; resnick; revival; routes; second; series; social; socialism; sources; state; statistics; surpluses; terms; theory; value; wages; wolff; workers
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- ar-14421
- author: Schein, Rebecca
- title: Free Transit and Social Movement Infrastructure: Assessing the Political Potential of Toronto
- date: 2010-10-25
- words: 3627
- flesch: 46
- summary: Free transit could represent a site of convergence between many distinct activist circles in the city and foster greater integration and collaboration between environmental advocacy, anti-poverty work, and diverse human rights organiza- tions. The invitation to imagine free transit is an invitation for transit riders to imagine them- selves not simply as consumers of a commodity, but as members of a public entitled to participate in conversations about the kind of city they want to live in.
- keywords: alternate; anti; assembly; broad; building; campaign; capitalist; city; class; communities; dialogue; downtown; environmental; fare; free; free transit; funding; g20; goods; greater; infrastructure; left; long; mass; meaning; members; movement; need; new; organization; people; police; political; potential; process; public; relationships; resources; riders; right; sector; services; social; space; system; tactics; toronto; transit; transit campaign; vision; workers; working; world
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- ar-14422
- author: Broad, Dave
- title: PERIPHERALIZATION OF THE CENTRE: W(H)ITHER CANADA? REVISITED
- date: 2010-10-25
- words: 1403
- flesch: 70
- summary: New York: New York University Press. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp.
- keywords: broad; canada; canadian; centre; century; council; countries; dave; economic; economy; eds; globalization; halifax; jobs; labour; monthly; new; press; process; publishing; review; social; toronto; university; vol; work; world; york
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- ar-15854
- author: Kelly, Elaine
- title: A Rough Climate for Migration
- date: 2011-11-14
- words: 10283
- flesch: 51
- summary: The dominance of the security paradigm can be seen in recent efforts to lock down a concept of climate security which can then be effectively mobilised by policymakers, extending its reach from environmental and migration discourse into climate change. Marie Julia Trombetta recognises the difficulty of implementing climate security, arguing that its complexity arises in the paradoxical need to both transform and protect “the existing economic structure and way of life” (Trombetta, 2008, p. 591).
- keywords: action; africa; aid; america; australia; barnett; borders; brown; change; climate; climate change; climate security; concept; conditions; context; critical; dalby; decision; defence; derrida; deudney; disaster; discourse; displacement; dominance; dominant; earthquake; economic; efforts; environmental; environmental migration; ethical; event; example; fact; fear; feldman; fernandes; film; following; force; foreign; giroux; global; government; haiti; haitian; hospitality; host; hsu; human; inclusion; instance; international; invasion; issues; january; language; law; level; life; logic; mass; measures; migrants; migration; military; movement; myers; national; national security; need; new; north; paper; paradigm; people; policy; political; politics; possible; potential; power; press; privileged; problem; refugees; relation; research; response; role; rough; rough climate; securitisation; security; senegal; sense; shift; smith; social; south; sovereignty; state; struggles; tacoli; term; thompson; threat; times; trombetta; u.s; united; uniting; ways; work
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- ar-15857
- author: Konings, Martijn
- title: Neoliberalism & the State
- date: 2011-11-24
- words: 5882
- flesch: 41
- summary: Despite the attention to the state and its institutions, financial globalization is still conceptualized as the ‘disembedding’ of financial markets from their erstwhile ‘embedded liberal’ institutional environment and the resulting imposition of market discipline on public and private actors (e.g. Helleiner, 1994; Best, 2003; Ruggie, 2007). One of the central theo- retical points of critical IPE has been the role of the state in fostering the globalization of financial markets.
- keywords: ability; access; actors; american; american state; argument; article; authority; banks; big; capacities; capitalism; conceptual; contradictions; control; credit; crisis; critical; critical social; deal; debt; discipline; disembedding; economic; economy; elites; embeddedness; everyday; expansion; fact; fail; federal; finance; financial; financial markets; financial system; global; growth; infrastructural; institutional; kind; life; like; logic; markets; mechanisms; modern; neoliberal; neoliberalism; new; order; perspective; polanyi; policies; policy; political; post; power; practices; press; public; regime; regulatory; relations; research; role; securitization; social; state; strategies; struggles; system; systemic; times; university; way
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- ar-15858
- author: Germain, Randall
- title: Power, the State and Global Politics After the Great Freeze:Towards a New Articulation?
- date: 2011-11-24
- words: 8987
- flesch: 51
- summary: What should be of more concern to scholars of global power is the condition of American values and ideals, which support in so many ways the entrenched American-centred global economic agenda. | 103 this, there were also some decisions that were simply not taken because the U.S. in effect blocked the way; such ‘non-decisions’ as she called them were also the product of American structural power (Strange, 1986).
- keywords: ability; agenda; american; american power; articulation; authority; balance; banking; banks; bric; british; capacity; capital; changes; consequences; control; countries; cox; crisis; critical; currency; debt; decisions; decline; development; dollar; economic; economies; economy; example; fact; financial; financial system; firms; framework; freeze; germain; global; global financial; global politics; globalization; governance; government; great; great freeze; important; institutions; interests; international; ipe; key; liberal; london; long; longer; major; markets; military; monetary; new; operation; order; organization; period; political; political economy; politics; power; press; princeton; private; public; question; regulation; regulatory; relations; research; reserve; role; rules; scholars; set; significant; social; state; strange; structural; structural power; struggles; supervision; susan; system; time; u.s; uniting; university; use; war; world
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- ar-15860
- author: Fanelli, Carlo; Lefebvre, Priscillia
- title: The Ottawa and Gatineau Museum Workers
- date: 2011-11-24
- words: 10276
- flesch: 52
- summary: Considering the brashness of Prime Minister Harper’s newfound Conservative majority, and the coor- dinated responses of the capitalist class, it is conceivable that the worst for Federal public service workers (and the users of those services) is yet to come. While striking PSAC workers in Local 70396 were certainly not, on the whole, anti-capitalist in their aims and efforts, important seeds were revealed in the strike toward a turn to class-struggle unionism.
- keywords: .com; action; agreement; air; albo; austerity; bargaining; benefits; camfield; canada; canadian; capitalism; century; civilization; class; clement; cmcc; collective; conditions; conservatives; contract; corporate; corporation; critical; critical social; decades; economic; economy; eds; education; efforts; employees; employer; employment; employmentand; end; fanelli; federal; fernwood; form; free; gatineau; government; great; halifax; harper; health; important; job; jobs; june; keynesian; kingston; labour; legislation; line; local; majority; management; market; mcbride; mcgill; members; minister; montreal; museum; museum workers; neoliberal; neoliberalism; new; news; offer; ottawa; panitch; pay; people; percent; period; permanent; picket; plan; policy; political; positions; precarious; press; private; programs; psac; public; public sector; pupo; queen; recession; research; restructuring; rights; sector; security; service; social; state; strike; striking; struggles; studies; support; tax; temporary; thomas; time; toronto; trade; union; unionism; uniting; university; wages; war; way; welfare; women; workers; working; years
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- ar-15861
- author: Fidler, Richard
- title: Qu
- date: 2011-11-24
- words: 11448
- flesch: 45
- summary: A number of attempts have been made in recent years to launch new parties and processes, addressing a broad left or popular constitu- ency, that are programmatically anti-neoliberal if not anti-capitalist, some of them self-identifying as part of an international effort to create a “socialism of the 21st century.” Sporadic attempts were made in the 1980s to build new parties of the left, but without lasting success.
- keywords: action; activists; agreement; alternative; amir; anti; approach; assembly; associated; autonomy; bloc; broad; broad left; campaign; canada; canadian; candidates; capitalist; century; citoyenne; commission; common; community; constitutional; convention; critical; critical social; david; debate; december; delegates; demands; democratic; development; draft; economic; economy; election; electoral; environment; example; federal; feminist; fidler; following; forces; founding; framework; free; french; general; government; identity; important; independence; international; investment; justice; khadir; labour; language; large; left; left party; liberals; local; major; manifesto; march; mass; media; members; membership; montréal; movement; national; nationalist; ndp; neoliberal; new; new party; november; number; opposition; option; organized; parties; party; past; pds; people; perspectives; policy; political; politics; popular; pour; process; program; progressive; prominent; proposals; provincial; public; quebec; question; québec solidaire; québécois; québécois approach; radical; rap; recent; referendum; reform; representation; research; right; section; self; services; social; social movements; social research; socialiste; society; solidaire; solidarity; sovereignty; state; strategy; strong; struggles; support; system; times; trade; ufp; unions; uniting; vote; wing; women; year
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- ar-15862
- author: Choudry, Aziz
- title: On Knowledge Production, Learning and Research in Struggle
- date: 2011-11-24
- words: 8218
- flesch: 49
- summary: In their article on “movement-relevant theory,” Doug Bevington and Chris Dixon (2005) note that just as few activists read social movement theory, important debates inside move- ment networks often do not enter the scholarly literature about social movements. The dominant strands On Knowledge Production, Learning and Research in Struggle | 179 of social movement theory tend to be reductionist, Eurocentric, and disconnected from the social movements and organizations that are the objects of its study.
- keywords: academic; action; activist; analysis; anti; apec; bank; black; building; capitalism; change; choudry; civil; colonial; community; consciousness; context; critical; critical social; development; document; dominant; eds; education; engaged; engagement; foley; formal; forms; global; government; ground; historical; ideas; immigrant; important; information; intellectual; international; justice; knowledge; knowledge production; labour; learning; local; london; marx; movements; need; networks; new; ngoization; ngos; non; official; organizations; organizing; people; political; politics; power; practice; press; processes; production; radical; relations; research; scholars; shragge; smith; social; social movements; social research; social struggles; society; south; state; strategy; struggles; theorizing; theory; times; toronto; trade; turn; unions; uniting; universities; university; workers; world; york; zealand
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- ar-15863
- author: Noonen, Jeff
- title: Socialism as a Life-Coherent Society
- date: 2011-11-24
- words: 8782
- flesch: 49
- summary: Thus human beings share three sets of life-requirements corresponding to the three dimensions of human life: Socialism as a Life-Coherent Society | 201 physical-organic requirements of biological life, socio-cultural require- ments of human life as a socially self-conscious agent, and temporal requirements of free human life. While it is true, as John Bellamy Foster has demonstrated, that Marx did not ignore the natural foundations of human life but in fact understood labour as humanity’s metabolism with nature and criti- cised capitalism for imposing a “metabolic rift” between human beings 198 |
- keywords: activity; alternative; beings; biological; building; capacities; capacity; capitalism; care; civil; class; coherence; coherent; commons; comprehensive; consumer; critical; cultural; demands; democratic; destructive; development; economic; experience; expression; forms; free; function; good; history; human; human capacities; human life; institutions; intrinsic; karl; kovel; labour; lebowitz; life; limits; long; marx; mcmurtry; money; natural; necessary; needs; new; objective; organic; people; point; political; possible; power; practices; principle; productive; real; requirements; research; resources; satisfaction; sense; socialism; society; socio; structure; struggles; support; system; systematic; term; time; true; uniting; use; valuable; value; ways; work; workers; york
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- ar-15864
- author: Parenti, Michael
- title: Profit Pathology and Disposable Planet
- date: 2011-11-24
- words: 2237
- flesch: 61
- summary: What is now at stake for them is something more proximate and more urgent than global ecology; it is global profits. Ecologically sustainable forms of production threaten to compromise such profits, the big producers are convinced.
- keywords: air; big; business; centuries; commentary; company; corporate; cost; crisis; critical; disaster; disposable; earth; ecological; end; environment; fate; free; future; global; immediate; market; mill; need; new; pathology; planet; possible; profit; public; social; superrich; time; water; world; years
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- ar-15865
- author: Armstrong, Pat
- title: Canadian Health Care: Privatization and Gendered Labour
- date: 2011-11-24
- words: 3483
- flesch: 63
- summary: Your research indicates that due to this gendered division of labour in health care women are the primary health care providers in Canada, yet women hold very little decision making power when it comes to policy. The best defence of public health care is popular support and we need to mobilize that support more than ever because we are facing a huge threat.
- keywords: analysis; approach; armstrong; canada; canadian; care; critical; data; economy; employment; example; gender; gendered; government; health; health care; hugh; inequities; labour; ontario; pages; pat; pat armstrong; policies; political; press; privatization; public; reform; research; sector; services; social; struggles; time; toronto; university; ways; women; work; workers
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- ar-15866
- author: Jhally, Sut
- title: Articulation, Cultural Studies, and Education
- date: 2011-11-24
- words: 7974
- flesch: 66
- summary: They talk in really heavy theoretical ways, and you look around the room and most people are dozing off because they have no idea what people are talking about. Theory proceeds in small steps, and it proceeds on the shoulders of people who have gone before.
- keywords: action; advertising; articulation; change; classroom; communication; crisis; critical; critique; cultural; culture; debate; different; economic; education; form; function; important; intellectual; interested; interview; jhally; key; kind; knowledge; marx; media; modes; people; piece; place; political; production; public; questions; research; right; role; sense; social; struggles; students; studies; sut; teaching; terms; theory; things; time; uniting; universities; university; view; way; work; world; years
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- ar-15867
- author: Perelman, Michael
- title: The Invisible Handcuffs of Capitalism: How Market Tyranny Stifles The Economy By Stunting Workers
- date: 2011-11-24
- words: 2835
- flesch: 58
- summary: But if you look at the last decade, business got virtually everything it requested, but without much job creation. Like Moliere’s bourgeois gentlemen, who was unaware that he was speaking prose, economists have developed a culture in which they communicate without any recognition of how much they have internalized the distorted perspective of a capitalist system.
- keywords: able; book; business; capitalism; carlo; century; conditions; creation; critical; economic; economists; economy; handcuffs; invention; invisible; job; labor; marx; michael; new; people; perelman; perspective; political; possible; power; research; role; social; society; state; system; times; wage; work; workers; working; world
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- ar-15868
- author: Chomsky, Noam
- title: Democracy and the Public University
- date: 2011-11-24
- words: 4630
- flesch: 73
- summary: So is it reasonable to think that public universities, specifically, have a democratic function? My strong suspicion is that the attacks on public universities, including things like tuition, quite possibly came out of this whole sort of mentality.
- keywords: business; centre; chomsky; control; corporate; critical; democracy; economy; fact; free; funding; government; high; institute; interview; kind; lot; mexico; mit; noam; open; pentagon; people; place; political; private; public; public university; research; science; social; states; students; technology; things; time; tuition; united; universities; university; war; work; world
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- ar-15869
- author: Potter, Garry
- title: Imaginaries and Realities, Utopia and Dystopia
- date: 2011-11-24
- words: 5826
- flesch: 62
- summary: However, as the project progressed it became clear that I simply could not present the dystopian vision and argument without engaging with potential strategies for dealing with the problems With respect to many of the dystopia thesis’s individual compo- nents, many people have provided far gloomier assessments than I. I tended to be rather cautious with predictions of catastrophe and apocalypse. But if the harsh reality stands in contrast to utopian vision there is something rather pathetic about the vision as well.
- keywords: analysis; argument; better; capitalism; caputo; carbon; change; collective; commentary; conflict; course; critical; development; dialectical; dissemination; dystopia; dystopia thesis; economic; economy; example; film; future; global; hope; hydrogen; ideological; ideology; imaginaries; inequality; knowledge; left; malaria; marxist; mystification; new; oil; peak; people; point; political; post; poverty; power; present; press; problems; production; question; realities; reality; research; respect; science; small; social; structural; struggles; suffering; system; terms; thesis; things; times; unemployment; uniting; university; utopian; vision; wealth; world; years; zizek
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- ar-15874
- author: Henry, Aaron
- title: First As Tragedy Then As Farce
- date: 2012-11-05
- words: 2628
- flesch: 43
- summary: In this sense, the political sphere, operates within this form of consciousness as the content (the materiality of the right to equal opportunity) when in fact it is nothing more than the symptom (one could use the word abstraction) of actual existing social relations that are in fact unequal. For Žižek, the point of this comparison of the different class rela- tions attached to symptom and fetishism seems to be this: the permis- sive-cynical subject is the easier of the class positions to mobilize because the form of the subjects ideological belief (i.e equality) can be recognized to be rooted in its content (i.e unequal relations) and as such the subject can simply integrate the content further into the form (i.e we will not be equal politically until we transform our economic relations therefore, let’s change economic relations).
- keywords: book; capitalist; class; critical; death; economic; false; form; function; fundamental; idea; ideology; liberal; liberalism; new; non; order; place; political; possibility; possible; question; relations; review; sense; situation; social; society; subject; tragedy; truth; working; žižek
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- ar-15875
- author: Calnitsky, Naomi Alisa
- title: The Ecological Rift: Capitalism
- date: 2012-11-05
- words: 1162
- flesch: 21
- summary: Their central target is industrial capitalism and its derivative effects, namely, the unsustainable social habits of consumer forces associated with capitalist production, and the unprecedented levels of ecological destruction associated with accumulative capitalism. His innovative and up-to-date approach placed politicized ecological questions into direct focus, to ask, how might we incorporate the earth into the balance sheet? Building upon past theoretical approaches and contributions, in The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth (2010), Foster, Clark and York offer a radical and comprehensive critique of the plan- etary environmental crisis as exacerbated by industrial capitalism.
- keywords: authors; book; capitalism; clark; critical; earth; ecological; ecology; economic; environmental; foster; human; industrial; marx; natural; nature; review; rift; social; war; work; world; york
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- ar-15876
- author: Tozzo, Brandon
- title: State Power and Democracy: Before and After The Presidency Of George W. Bush
- date: 2012-11-05
- words: 1044
- flesch: 48
- summary: Andrew Kolin’s book traces the centralization of control in the presidency at the expense of Congress and American democracy. For example, there is no discussion of why mass democracy movements such as the Black Panthers and the Socialist Party are favourable to American democracy, while others such as the religious right and Tea Party are not, since they are both mass movements albeit with different agendas.
- keywords: administration; american; book; bush; congress; critical; democracy; foreign; george; institutions; kolin; police; power; presidency; rights; social; state; united
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- ar-15877
- author: Boyd, Ryan
- title: Missing Women, Missing News: Covering Crisis in Vancouver
- date: 2012-11-05
- words: 2019
- flesch: 47
- summary: In a critical analysis of the racial component of the state’s culpability of endangering sex workers, Hugill’s study finds that only thirteen of 157 newspaper articles acknowledged that a significant proportion of missing women were Aboriginal (p. 47). Hugill pays special attention to who is speaking on behalf of missing women and prostitutes and their perceived credibility.
- keywords: aboriginal; book; canada; canadian; chapter; commonsense; conditions; coverage; crisis; critical; downtown; eastside; federal; hugill; local; media; negligence; news; police; prostitution; review; sex; social; state; study; times; vancouver; women; workers
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- ar-15878
- author: Hurl, Chris
- title: Economic Democracy: The Working Class Alternative to Capitalism
- date: 2012-11-05
- words: 1363
- flesch: 48
- summary: 296 | Uniting Struggles: Critical Social Research in Critical Times Book Review Economic democracy: the working Class Alternative to Capitalism, by Allan Engler, Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2010. As a long-time activist in the labour movement, heading up Local 400 of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and contributing to a strong left current in the Vancouver and District Labour Council (VDLC), Engler approaches the problems of modern capitalism as an organic intellectual.
- keywords: book; capitalism; community; critical; democracy; economic; engler; hand; labour; manifesto; market; minority; people; process; rise; social; socialized; struggles; times; world; years
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- ar-15879
- author: Nelson, Matthew
- title: The Politics of Genocide
- date: 2012-11-05
- words: 1535
- flesch: 32
- summary: When systematic violence is carried out by US clients—such as Indo- nesia in East Timor from 1975-1999, Israel in the Gaza Strip and West Bank from 1967 to the present, or Rwanda and Uganda in Congo—they are viewed by the US political establishment as Benign and not worthy of condemnation. The Politics of Genocide has done much to emphasize the biases and contradictions of US foreign policy, but it should be read in conjunction with other theoretical contributions to themes related to genocide, impe- rialism and international law.
- keywords: atrocities; authors; bloodbaths; book; chomsky; class; critical; establishment; genocide; herman; imperialism; international; law; mass; media; nefarious; peterson; political; politics; research; review; social; states; vietnam; war; western
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- ar-19216
- author: Stanford, Jim
- title: The Myth of Canadian Exceptionalism: Crisis, Non-Recovery, and Austerity
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 5923
- flesch: 48
- summary: The exceptionalist claim that Canadian banks were somehow inherently immune from the global meltdown is refuted; the success of the Canadian financial system in traversing the global meltdown reflects state policy, not any embedded advantages of Canadian banks. PARt iii: undERStAndinG CAnAdiAn FinAnCiAl StABility An influential stream within the broader ideology of Canadian exceptionalism is the myth that Canadian banks were blameless in the events of the 2008-09 financial crisis and the resulting recession.
- keywords: average; banks; canada; canadian; canadian banks; canadian exceptionalism; capita; countries; crisis; damage; decline; downturn; economic; economy; emergency; employment; employment rate; exceptionalism; fact; federal; financial; gdp; global; government; great; growth; industrialized; jobs; labour; lower; market; myth; new; oecd; ongoing; order; output; peak; percent; performance; policy; political; population; population growth; potential; pre; proof; public; rate; real; recession; recovery; stability; support; system; table; terms; time; total; u.s; years
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- ar-19217
- author: Stoney, Christopher; Krawchencko, Tamara
- title: Crisis and Opportunism: Public Finance Trends from Stimulus to Austerity in Canada
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 8698
- flesch: 50
- summary: Annual Financial Report of the Government of Canada Fiscal Year 2009–2010. http://www.fin.gc.ca/afr-rfa/2010/ report-rapport-eng.asp Department of Finance Canada. It is clear from this analysis why the revenues of the Ministry have increased 2 In 2004, the Ministry was composed of Transport Canada, the Canadian Transportation Agency (a regulatory agency) and the Transportation Appeal Tribunal of Canada.
- keywords: accounts; action; analysis; areas; austerity; budget; canada; canadian; capital; case; change; chart; china; commitment; conservatives; constant; context; corporation; crisis; cuts; deficit; department; details; development; dollars; economic; economy; energy; environmental; exceptionalism; expenditure; expenses; federal; federalism; finance; financial; fiscal; flaherty; focus; funding; gdp; general; government; great; growth; harper; increases; infrastructure; jobs; long; major; march; markets; measures; millions; minister; ministries; ministry; myth; national; natural; neoliberal; neoliberalism; new; news; open; opportunism; ottawa; paper; particular; past; percentage; plan; policies; policy; political; power; priorities; program; proof; public; receiver; recent; recession; research; resources; revenues; review; services; shift; significant; social; spending; state; stimulus; strategic; tax; term; time; total; trade; transport; volume; works; years
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- ar-19218
- author: Sanger, Toby
- title: Canada
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 7955
- flesch: 48
- summary: With the bankruptcy of neoliberal economic policies, it is difficult to reach any other conclusion except that the Conservative govern- ment is continuing to aggressively implement neoliberal policies for political reasons: to expand the power of capital and to weaken the power of labour in a continued class war. While neoliberal economic policies are being increasingly questioned and abandoned by economists, politicians – including Canada’s Con- servative federal government – continue to implement them for purely political and ideological reasons: to further concentrate economic and political power among the owners of capital and to weaken the power of labour.
- keywords: austerity; balance; bank; bargaining; budget; business; canada; canadian; cansim; capital; class; conservative; corporate; countries; crisis; cuts; debt; decline; deficits; distribution; economic; economy; employment; environmental; exceptionalism; fanelli; federal; figure; finance; financial; fiscal; foreign; free; gdp; government; great; growth; household; hurl; imf; income; increase; inequality; interest; international; investment; labour; little; long; market; measures; monetary; myth; national; national income; neoliberal; new; oecd; officer; organizations; ottawa; outlook; paper; parliamentary; percent; policies; policy; political; post; power; previous; private; proof; protections; public; rates; reasons; recession; sector; share; slow; social; spending; statistics; stimulus; surpluses; tax; term; time; trade; wages; war; weakening; workers; working; world; years
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- ar-19219
- author: Whiteside, Heater
- title: Stabilizing Privatization: Crisis, Enabling Fields, and Public-Private Partnerships in Canada
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 9401
- flesch: 45
- summary: And tHE 2008/9 GloBAl FinAnCiAl CRiSiS Many of the long-standing problems that accompany P3 projects were made even worse by the recent global financial crisis. P3 units promote and evaluate these projects and act as repositories of knowledge which facilitates policy learning by building government expertise surrounding the com- plex bidding, negotiation, and operational phase of P3 projects (Rachw- alski and Ross, 2010).
- keywords: afp; agencies; agreements; annual; auditor; away; building; camf; canada; canadian; capital; care; changes; concerns; cost; creation; crisis; deals; decade; decision; delivery; depoliticization; development; dispossession; economic; elements; exceptionalism; fields; finance; financial; financing; forms; framework; future; general; global; government; great; greater; health; hospital; important; infrastructure; institutionalization; interest; large; long; lower; mackenzie; makers; making; management; market; ministry; model; money; myth; new; normative; ontario; organizations; p3s; particular; partnerships; past; planning; policy; political; ppp; private; private partnerships; privatization; problems; procedures; process; processes; procurement; profit; projects; proof; province; provincial; public; public infrastructure; public sector; recession; report; restructuring; risk; rules; run; sector; services; sphere; state; support; term; time; traditional; units; use; value; way; ways
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- ar-19220
- author: Harden, Joel
- title: When Resistance Isn
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 9035
- flesch: 58
- summary: Once a critical mobilization point was achieved, substantial momentum developed for pension reforms, with a wide array of observers crediting the CLC for driving the discus- sion. In a submission to Finance Canada on pension reform, CLC President Ken Georgetti made this explicit: “In a letter to Minister Flaherty dated March 27, 2005, I expressed the CLC’s deep regret that the federal review of defined benefit pensions was taking place in a context where corporate lobbyists were guiding the discussion.
- keywords: action; activism; activists; april; benefits; blackburn; campaign; canada; canada pension; canadian; change; clc; clc pension; clear; conditions; conference; congress; consultations; contribution; corporate; cpp; crisis; debate; december; decent; demands; department; dussault; economic; employer; exceptionalism; expansion; federal; fend; finance; financial; flaherty; following; funding; futile; future; georgetti; globe; government; great; http://www; important; income; industry; investment; issues; jim; june; key; labour; mail; march; markets; members; minister; moment; month; myth; new; non; november; opportunity; options; organized; ottawa; paper; pension; pension plans; pension reform; percent; phase; plans; policy; political; politicians; power; private; progressive; proof; public; recession; reform; report; research; resistance; retirees; retirement; room; rules; savings; sector; security; september; social; stalemate; stock; stories; surplus; system; time; toronto; union; vision; workers; workplace; years
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- ar-19221
- author: Camfield, David
- title: What is Trade Union Bureaucracy? A Theoretical Account
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 9914
- flesch: 49
- summary: So far this alternative account of union bureaucracy has said almost nothing about union officials. These examples, which are simply meant to give a sense of some of the ways that bureau- cracy can be manifested within union organizations, suggest just how much is missed when a theory of union bureaucracy focuses solely or mainly on union full-time officers and staff.
- keywords: ability; account; action; activity; administration; analysis; attention; bureaucracy; bureaucratic; callinicos; canada; canadian; capitalist; case; century; character; class; collective; conception; conditions; contemporary; contracts; control; democratic; development; empirical; employers; example; exceptionalism; execution; existence; file; formal; goals; great; grievance; group; hyman; important; institutions; intellectual; kind; labour; law; layer; leaders; legal; leier; london; members; michels; movement; myth; nature; need; new; officers; officialdom; officials; organizations; people; perspective; phenomenon; political; power; press; process; proof; rank; recession; relations; relationship; rethel; rights; rules; self; separation; social; societies; society; sohn; source; staff; state; strikes; term; theoretical; theory; time; time officials; trade; trade union; understanding; union; union bureaucracy; union officials; unionism; university; use; ways; workers; working; york
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- ar-19222
- author: Cummings, Jordy
- title: Social Property Relations in the 21st Century: An Interview with Ellen Meiksins Wood
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 5325
- flesch: 41
- summary: Political Marxism is far more conscious of the specifici- ties of capitalism, and so it can shed more light on how capitalism operates today, why it does what it does, why its crises take the form that they do, and what the possibilities are for the future – though I’d hesitate to call the approach ‘capital-centric’, if only because of its Social Property Relations in the 21st Century | 163 usefulness in identifying the specificity of other social forms too, not just capitalism. If you want to understand the relations between capitalism and, say, race, gender, or slavery, you obviously need to understand what makes capitalism distinct from other social forms, what generates its very specific operating principles and the distinctive historical dynamic that it has set in motion.
- keywords: 21st; approach; austerity; brenner; canada; canadian; capitalism; century; coercion; course; crisis; criticism; current; democratic; economic; emw; exceptionalism; extra; forms; freedom; global; great; history; imperatives; imperialism; kind; labour; left; liberty; long; market; marxism; mode; movement; myth; neoliberalism; new; occupy; old; particular; people; point; political; power; production; profit; proof; property; recession; relations; social; specific; state; struggles; today; ways; world
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- ar-19223
- author: Wetmore, Rebekah; Romard, Ryan
- title: Twenty-First Century Socialism and the Global Financial Meltdown: In Conversation with Michael Lebowitz
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 4875
- flesch: 49
- summary: This emergence of new capitals and new forms of production pro- vides a basis for a structural crisis — in other words, a crisis which is the result of the changing structure of capital. By fictitious capital, we mean the capital invested in various vehicles which, while linked ulti- mately to the fortunes of real capital within the spheres of production and circulation, takes on a life of its own.
- keywords: alternative; anti; austerity; canada; canadian; capital; capitalism; centres; century; class; corporations; crisis; current; cyclical; defeat; development; economy; exceptionalism; financial; form; global; government; great; human; marx; materials; means; meltdown; need; new; old; overaccumulation; people; process; production; question; raw; real; resource; result; socialism; state; structural; struggles; tendency; value; venezuela; vision; workers; world
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- ar-19224
- author: Brogan, Peter
- title: Neoliberalization and the Matrix of Action: In Conversation with Neil Brenner, Jamie Peck, and Nik Theodore
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 6715
- flesch: 47
- summary: This insight certainly provides some purchase on contemporary neoliberalization patterns in cities—but insofar as such property markets are also, today, tightly connected to global financial markets and instabilities, they certainly no longer provide the kind of “safe haven” from crisis tendencies that they appeared to offer during previous rounds of economic crisis. According to this idea, in a time of crisis, capital floods into the built environment as a potentially safe refuge – so urban property markets may experience particularly intense investment pressures precisely under conditions of industrial decline.
- keywords: action; alliance; analysis; broader; canadian; capitalism; cities; city; counter; crisis; development; different; economic; economy; exceptionalism; financial; forms; global; great; historical; ideological; important; institutional; jamie; kind; left; level; local; market; matrix; movement; myth; need; neil; neoliberalism; neoliberalization; nik; period; place; political; politics; present; process; processes; proof; public; question; recession; regulation; regulatory; reorganization; resistance; responses; rule; scale; sense; social; struggle; theory; time; understanding; urban; way; ways; work; world; years
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- ar-19225
- author: Block, Shelia
- title: Austerity is Bad for Our Health: Gender and Distributional Impacts of Ontario
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 2413
- flesch: 64
- summary: GEndER iMPACtS oF AuStERity The burden of reductions in public services, loss of public sector employment, and privatization of public sector employment falls more heavily on women than on men. Because of the role of public sector employment in women’s working lives; it will also erode gender equity in the province.
- keywords: austerity; average; bad; budget; canada; canadian; changes; employment; families; gender; government; health; impact; income; increase; inequality; life; lower; ontarians; ontario; people; percent; policy; private; public; research; sector; services; shows; statistics; tax; women; work
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- ar-19226
- author: Fanelli, Carlo
- title: Austerity and Aboriginal Communities: An Interview with David Newhouse
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 3389
- flesch: 47
- summary: There is an incredible movement within Aboriginal communities to use ideas, practices, theories, etc from our own intellectual heritage as the basis for everyday life, including organizational and community lives. It will be a challenge for Aboriginal communities to develop institutions that can effectively mediate between these two approaches.
- keywords: aboriginal; aboriginal communities; aboriginal peoples; austerity; budget; canada; canadian; communities; community; conditions; critical; economic; education; effective; extent; federal; funding; funds; government; great; groups; health; important; indigenous; issues; justice; level; life; local; loss; nations; needs; new; non; peoples; policy; process; public; research; schools; secondary; services; social; studies; support; urban; ways; youth
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- ar-19227
- author: Wrye, Jen
- title: Climate Change and Crisis: In Dialogue with Simon Dalby
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 1651
- flesch: 43
- summary: In general environmental programs may have suffered but clearly European states remain much more concerned about environmental matters than at least the federal governments in both the U.S., given Republican agendas, and Canada, given the Conservatives’ agenda. JW: How ideologically driven are cuts to environmental spending, Can- ada’s abandonment of Kyoto commitments, etc.?
- keywords: agenda; austerity; canada; canadian; change; climate; crisis; economy; environmental; federal; geopolitics; government; green; initiatives; international; matters; political; programs; projects; public; resource; sector; security; spending; terms; things; use
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- ar-19229
- author: Gindin, Sam
- title: Beyond the Economic Crisis: This Crisis in Trade Unionism
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 4507
- flesch: 53
- summary: This is not easy; it requires a transformation of everything about public sector unions. Today, capital is trying to consolidate and complete that defeat by going after the public sector and ensuring that it does not inspire any positive examples for private sector workers.
- keywords: alternate; attacks; austerity; bargaining; canada; canadian; capitalism; class; conference; crisis; economic; economic crisis; end; exceptionalism; finance; financial; gains; gindin; global; globalization; great; issue; jobs; labour; left; march; members; movement; myth; need; new; presentation; private; proof; public; recession; renewal; rest; routes; ryerson; sector; services; social; state; terms; things; time; today; trade; union; unionism; university; workers; working
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- ar-19230
- author: Pich, Christine
- title: Whitmore, Elizabeth, et al.
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 1077
- flesch: 42
- summary: This relates to the central theme of the book, that is, in attempting to understand what constitutes ‘successful activism’ in complex contexts, there is no ‘right answer’ or ‘best practice’ when undertaking social justice oriented work. The main contribution of this book is that it highlights how, even in a hostile neoliberal capitalist climate, successes of varying degrees are experienced within the processes of working on social justice issues and that important work is being done on a day-to-day basis in this regard.
- keywords: activism; activists; book; chapters; collaborative; discussion; editors; important; justice; organizations; particular; regard; research; social; success; successful; terms; work
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- ar-19231
- author: Spagnuolo, Natalie
- title: Engler, Yves.
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 1051
- flesch: 43
- summary: In Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid, Engler problematizes the claims of current analysts, such the former Canadian Ambassador to Israel Michael Bell,3 who would like to see greater Canadian involvement in the Middle East. Pages: 1-168. Reviewed by Natalie Spagnuolo1 Canada’s policy towards Israel constitutes a minefield of contentious issues which historians of Canadian foreign relations seldom directly address.
- keywords: anti; apartheid; book; canada; canadian; conflict; east; engler; expansion; foreign; heinbecker; israel; jewish; middle; momani; policy; political; relations; support; zionist
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- ar-19232
- author: Curtin, Jillian
- title: Toussaint, Eric and Damien Millet.
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 1160
- flesch: 59
- summary: For example, in addition to their argument on how debt has redistributed financial resources from important social policies like health and education they make some important points about the impact of debt on resources and food sov- ereignty. Aside from these problems Toussaint and Millet do provide a general overview of how the burden of debt is crippling development efforts in many countries.
- keywords: argument; bank; book; countries; debt; development; economic; financial; global; hipcs; imf; investment; millet; problem; resources; review; system; toussaint; world
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- ar-19233
- author: Patridge, Kevin
- title: Hill, Gord.
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 1179
- flesch: 47
- summary: He then goes on to provide some of the stories and evidence both of this destruction and the resistance that has accompanied it from the time of the first contact with Europeans to current conflicts involving indigenous peoples. These struggles completely alter the social landscape of North America by bringing in people from many other places in the world as well as contributing to the deaths of many millions of Indigenous people, the profound altera- tion of social structures that survived, and the export of a huge amount and variety of resources.
- keywords: americas; author; book; brief; canadian; colonization; current; great; hill; historical; history; indigenous; interested; narrative; nations; people; political; resistance; variety
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- ar-19234
- author: Hall, Tiffany
- title: Fr
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 1027
- flesch: 50
- summary: Frölich’s wit- ness of the decline in mental health following her weakening physical state provides enough speculation for him to ask whether Luxemburg was the great leader they believed her to be: “…did her physical strength simply not suffice for the necessary tasks, or did this great leader, who as a theoretician and as a strategist of class struggle moved ahead with such unshakeable inner strength and tenac- ity, lack that crowning touch of the party leader who can make realis- tically sound judgments at critical moments irrespective of his mood Book Review: Rosa Luxemburg: Ideas in Action | 263 and who knows how to see to it that his decisions are carried out - that crowning touch which became Lenin’s second nature. Pages: 1-311. Reviewed by Tiffany Hall1 Rosa Luxemburg: Ideas in Action is the intellectual biography of Rosa Luxemburg and her role in socialist party movements in Poland, Russia, and Germany at the turn of the 20th century.
- keywords: action; book; chapters; contribution; frölich; ideas; life; luxemburg; party; political; progression; revolution; rosa; socialist; time; understanding
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- ar-19235
- author: Braun, James
- title: Tully, John.
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 1074
- flesch: 42
- summary: From the Amazon rubber boom to the rise of synthetic rubber production in World War 2, Tully documents the history of rubber production and processing “inex- tricably bound up with the rise of capitalism, imperialism and moder- nity” (p.345). His study of rubber production and processing begins with the early industrial revolution in Britain, but is primarily focused on the birth and growth of the pneumatic tire industry in Akron, Ohio.
- keywords: akron; book; commodity; great; history; industrial; industry; labour; modernity; political; processing; production; resistance; review; rubber; social; supply; tully; war; workers; world
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- ar-19236
- author: Wetmore, Rebekah
- title: Brouwer, Steve.
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 1110
- flesch: 46
- summary: Health care continued to improve including through the creation of Basic Health Teams and brigadistas sanitarias or health brigades in the end of the 1980’s. Both countries have made huge gains in traditional measures of health care and the social determinants of health but there are still prob- lems internally and abroad.
- keywords: book; care; community; countries; cuba; doctors; government; health; humanitarian; medical; missions; new; programs; public; review; revolutionary; social; system; university; venezuela
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- ar-19237
- author: Calnitsky, Naomi
- title: Cockcroft, James.
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 1162
- flesch: 40
- summary: Revolutionary struggles in contemporary Mexico enrich the narra- tive, which intertwines past and present. Then and Now is a welcome addi- tion to existing literature on Mexican revolutionary ideology, relevant for its assessment of the ways in which revolutionary ideas have shaped contemporary resistance movements.
- keywords: attention; author; book; canadian; cockcroft; contemporary; current; great; history; ideas; labour; magonista; mexican; mexico; movement; new; p.l.m; period; political; present; review; revolution; revolutionary; social; work
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- ar-19238
- author: Tfaily, Rania
- title: Ruben, Albert.
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 1081
- flesch: 50
- summary: Ruben shows how the CCR pioneered the creative use of the law by adopting novel and often untested arguments to launch legal battles along with educational campaigns with the purpose of facilitating social change. After a period of decline, the CCR saw its fortunes and profile increase following 9/11 and the war on terror which resulted in human rights violations of thousands of Arabs and Muslims.
- keywords: book; cases; ccr; center; change; courts; justice; lawyer; legal; organizations; people; political; progressive; review; rights; ruben; significant; social; staff; u.s
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- ar-19239
- author: Fernandes, Sabrina
- title: Dwyer, Augusta.
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 1348
- flesch: 40
- summary: Although it is easy for the reader to get lost in the personal anecdotes of movement members, Dwyer’s narrative style is effective because it brings a human face back to the understanding of social movements. These include references made both by Dwyer and by the movement mem- bers themselves demonstrating how grassroots movements perceive the merging of theory and practice to be essential for the creation of alternatives.
- keywords: aid; author; book; broke; dwyer; education; grassroots; indonesia; institutions; members; movements; mst; poverty; review; social; solutions; stories; strategies; struggle; support; sustainable; unbroken; way
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- ar-19240
- author: Fanelli, Carlo; Evans, Bryan
- title: From Great Recession to Great Deception: Reimagining the Roots of the Crisis
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 4204
- flesch: 48
- summary: Federal, provincial and local governments across the country, regardless of political stripes, are turning to a range of austerity measures that will erode public services and the quality of public sector employment. These efforts have been in combination with unprecedented amounts of personal affluence among certain groups in the midst of public sector austerity. .
- keywords: alternate; articles; austerity; book; bryan; bureaucracy; canada; canadian; capitalism; carleton; carlo; class; collective; communities; crisis; critical; david; decades; deception; economic; economy; editorial; emphasis; evans; exceptionalism; fanelli; finance; freedoms; global; great; great recession; growth; harden; health; historical; impacts; importance; interview; introduction; issue; labour; marx; movements; myth; neoliberal; new; non; ontario; past; people; political; private; project; proof; public; quill; recession; recovery; red; relations; research; resistance; rosenfeld; routes; sector; services; social; state; support; trade; union; university; workers; working; world; years
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- ar-19241
- author: Rosenfeld, Herman
- title: The Electro-Motive Lockout and Non-Occupation: What Did We Lose? What Can We Learn?
- date: 2012-12-14
- words: 6439
- flesch: 55
- summary: Also in August of 2012, the merger talks between the Canadian Auto Workers and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers of Canada culminated in a proposal for new union. Austerity budgets at all levels of government and political attacks have continued to target public sector unions.
- keywords: agreement; attacks; august; auto; bargaining; campaign; canada; canadian; capacities; capital; caterpillar; caw; challenge; class; closure; collective; community; context; decent; defeat; demands; different; efforts; electro; emd; employers; exceptionalism; experience; february; government; grant; great; harper; investment; issues; jobs; keenan; key; kind; labour; larger; limited; local; lockout; london; manufacturing; motive; movement; myth; national; new; non; occupation; ontario; pension; people; percent; period; plant; political; pressure; previous; private; proof; provincial; public; recession; resistance; rights; rosenfeld; sector; severance; state; strategies; struggle; support; toronto; union; wage; workers; working; workplace; year
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- ar-20229
- author: Clement, Wallace
- title: Macrosociological Approaches Towards a 'Canadian Sociology'
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 16138
- flesch: 47
- summary: This paper is no more than an attempt to move toward a wider perspective, a macrosociological approach to Canadian society, by examining some models and theories of modern national so- cieties. To provide an analysis of Canadian society it will be necessary to distinguish three types of macrosociological terms.
- keywords: absentee; account; analysis; anthropology; approach; aspects; attempt; book; canada; canadian; canadian society; canadian sociology; capitalism; case; center; central; character; clark; class; classes; clement; common; comparative; concerned; consociational; context; countries; cultural; culture; davis; democracy; developed; development; differences; different; distinction; dominant; earlier; economic; economy; eds; elements; elites; empirical; english; ethnic; ethnicity; example; extent; external; focus; foreign; form; framework; frank; french; general; government; groups; guindon; historical; history; holistic; human; identity; implications; important; indigenous; inequalities; integrated; interesting; internal; international; issues; john; language; large; latin; level; links; local; macrosociological; macrosociology; major; making; manzer; means; members; mills; mobility; model; mosaic; n.y; national; national society; nations; necessary; needs; number; outside; ownership; paper; particular; period; periphery; perspective; place; political; porter; power; press; problem; process; quebec; question; range; recent; regional; regionalism; related; relationship; religion; research; rioux; rocher; role; sense; similar; social; social class; societies; society; sociological; sociologists; sociology; state; structure; studies; study; substantive; sunkel; system; terms; theories; theory; toronto; total; total society; tradition; types; underdevelopment; understanding; united; units; university; vallee; variety; vertical; vol; way; ways; whyte
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- ar-20230
- author: Glenday, Daniel
- title: The Dominion Government as Gatekeeper to the Canadian Ethnic Mosaic
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 5538
- flesch: 48
- summary: Industrialization from above though did not have a sufficiently profound impact on rural Quebec society until well into the second decade of the twentieth century. We can summarize that from 1891 to 1921 over 1 1/4 million French Canadians emigrated to the U.S.A. The lack of sophistication in these statistics due to the fact that neither the Canadian nor the American government kept accurate emigration records still does not erase the trend that a remarkable number of French Canadians left Quebec during the decades from 1880 to 1920.
- keywords: act; canada; canadian; canadian west; cartier; catholic; century; change; church; confederation; creighton; crisis; cultural; dominant; dominion; economic; elites; english; ethnic; ethnic group; federal; federal government; french; french canadians; george; government; group; guindon; historical; institutions; internal; land; macdonald; manitoba; minority; new; ontario; order; pluralism; policy; political; population; position; power; press; province; provincial; quebec; rebellion; red; relations; religious; riel; river; roman; rural; schools; settlers; smith; social; society; states; structural; subordinate; surplus; system; time; toronto; traditional; united; university; west; wirth; work; years
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- ar-20231
- author: Marshall, Stan
- title: Embourgeoisement or Proletarianization?
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 7465
- flesch: 55
- summary: Levison dispels this by noting differences in the lifestyles of working class and middle class families especially in the location of working class areas vis a vis middle class areas. , the test to prove embourgeoisement would be to prove that the acquisition of incomes and living standards by manual workers similar to white collar workers would lead to the adoption of a new social outlook and new social norms that are middle class.
- keywords: action; affluence; affluent; blue; bourgeoisie; braverman; capital; capitalist; carchedi; changes; class; class structure; classes; collar; collective; conditions; definition; devaluation; development; division; economic; embourgeoisement; families; function; global; goldthorpe; hamilton; harry; ibid; identification; ideological; income; jobs; labor; level; manual; means; middle class; necessary; new; new middle; occupations; old; old middle; paper; perform; point; political; power; press; process; production; proletarianization; proletariat; relations; relative; society; structure; thesis; time; university; way; white; words; worker; working; working class; york
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- ar-20232
- author: Mayer, Jan
- title: Social Mobility: A Critical Approach
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 6860
- flesch: 28
- summary: Despite the fond hopes of some of the structural theorists cited here, attempts at measuring structural (occupational) trends also lend support to the interp retation that the progression of industrialism has not resulted in increased mobility—as for example is shown by Natalie Rogoff's 1953 finding that when changes in the occupational structure were standardized out, a major factor in mobility changes between 1910 and 1940 was accounted for (cited in Koore, 19o6: 1^0). THE MEANING OF MOBILITY The theory of social mobility, Goldhaner informs us in the INTER- NATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA 0?
- keywords: american; analysis; approaches; attainment; belief; bendix; blau; career; changes; class; classes; collar; concern; criteria; data; degree; development; different; differential; dominant; duncan; economic; education; evidence; factors; father; form; general; groups; high; higher; important; income; individuals; industrial; industrialization; inequality; labour; lack; life; lipset; literature; little; major; manual; means; mechanisms; mobility; new; non; occupational; opportunity; parkin; people; point; political; positions; power; questions; rates; relationship; relevant; research; rewards; section; sibley; smelser; social; social mobility; societies; society; sources; status; stratification; structure; study; system; terms; theory; time; upgrading; upward; variables; white; work; workers
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- ar-20233
- author: Smith, Chuck
- title: Towards a Marxist Theory of Transition
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 9983
- flesch: 43
- summary: But at any rate the main, point I wish to make is only that new productive forces were not immediately forthcoming as an inevitable result of changed relations production. As Bettelheim puts it the development of the productive forces in every country is to some extent conditioned by world production relations.
- keywords: agents; analysis; appropriation; articulated; articulation; balibar; capitalist; case; certain; class; class relations; class struggle; classes; combination; complex; concept; conditions; conjuncture; correspondence; determinate; determination; determined; different; distribution; dominance; dominant; dominant mode; dominant relations; economic; effects; elements; example; existence; forces; formations; forms; hindess; hirst; historical; ideological; instance; labour; labourer; level; limits; m.p; means; mode; nature; necessary; new; non; object; particular; point; political; possible; poulantzas; practise; process; production; productive forces; productive relations; property; real; relations; revolutionary; social; social classes; social formation; social relations; specific; state; structure; struggle; surplus; theoretical; theory; transformation; transition
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- ar-20234
- author: Campbell, Ken
- title: Class Analysis and Technological Determinism
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 2684
- flesch: 28
- summary: Rather, it assumes that technological and scientific progress exert a determining influence over social institutions, that technological development determines the division of labour, and that social development can best be understood in terms of technological advance. More concretely, it assumes that the modern organization of work — the division of labour within industry, the existence of various levels of skilled labour and th •The argument of this paper has been compressed from a much more lengthy review of the Marxist and Weberian concept of class and the division of labour.
- keywords: analysis; argument; assumptions; braverman; capitalist; class; determined; determinism; development; differences; division; education; explanation; giddens; industrial; inequality; labour; level; market; marxist; modern; occupational; organization; parkin; process; production; relations; skill; social; structure; technical; technological; theoretical; theory; view; weberian; work; writers
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- ar-20235
- author: Saunders, Eileen
- title: Implications of the Domestic Role of Women
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 3790
- flesch: 52
- summary: On the one hand, domestic labour is necessary labour because the commodities of capital require 1W additional labour (i.e., housework) before consumption. Domestic labour thus creates value because all labour produees value when it produces any part of a commodity that achieves equivalence in the market place with other commodities (Seccombe, 1973'9)- Domestic labour helps produce and reproduce labour power as a commodity.
- keywords: analysis; capital; capitalism; class; commodity; consumption; domestic; domestic labour; earner; economic; family; female; force; household; ideology; labour; labourers; market; nature; necessary; needs; oppression; position; power; privatized; production; relation; reproductive; role; seccombe; sphere; surplus; tasks; unit; value; wage; women; work; worker
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- ar-20239
- author: Myles, John
- title: Introduction: Braverman and Beyond
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 508
- flesch: 44
- summary: Such a work is Harry Braverman's Labor and Monopoly Capital and it is for this reason that Braverman's analysis of the degradation of work in the twentieth century was selected as the topic for a special symposium held at Carleton Univer- sity in the fall of 1977, a summary of which appears in the following pages. In agreeing to prepare this paper for the symposium, Burawoy accepted the difficult and challenging task of critiquing Braverman from within the perspective of Marxist analysis.
- keywords: analysis; braverman; burawoy; labor; marxist; monopoly; symposium; university; work
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- ar-20240
- author: Burowoy, Michael
- title: Between Marxist Orthodoxy and Critical Theory: Comments on Braverman's Labor and Monopoly Capital
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 3553
- flesch: 44
- summary: The Political and Ideological Aspects of the Labor Process In his concern for critique Braverman quite deliberately restricts his analysis to the objective aspects of the labor process. However, one cannot get at what is fundamental to the capitalist labor process or capitalist control by looking at variations within capitalism as Braverman does.
- keywords: analysis; aspects; braverman; capitalist; capitalist labor; class; conception; control; craft; critical; critique; different; execution; forces; ideological; labor; labor process; marxist; mechanization; monopoly; monopoly capitalism; point; political; process; production; relations; separation; socialism; states; surplus; symposium; time; understanding; united; work; worker
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- ar-20242
- author: Panitch, Leo
- title: Leo Panitch: Braverman and Beyond
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 2817
- flesch: 51
- summary: There is another criticism of Braverman--he doesn't talk enough about class struggle. Braverman has an understanding of society's dynamic being composed of class struggle so deep that it suffuses his work and he doesn't constantly have to keep crying class struggle.
- keywords: braverman; burawoy; capitalism; class; clear; contradiction; criticism; critique; day; feudalism; history; important; labour; mapping; marx; point; process; production; relations; sense; social; society; struggle; technology; terms; understanding; way; work
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- ar-20243
- author: Porter, John
- title: John Porter: Braverman and Beyond
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 710
- flesch: 45
- summary: Most of this compilation of materials - studies of work, labour force statistics and other things - we knew before. Many of the things said about the degradation of work, or the character of work, have been criticized through various art forms, if not sociology, and certainly Taylorism has been subject to ridicule for a very long time.
- keywords: book; braverman; force; growth; impressed; industrialization; labour; occupational; social; sociology; work
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- ar-20244
- author: Swartz, Doanld
- title: Doanld Swartz: Braverman and Beyond
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 2122
- flesch: 40
- summary: Then, adding that the impetus to technological change can also come from class struggle (i.e: successful wage claims which render labour saving machinery profitable), suggests that Taylorism, by intensifying class struggles, spurred the technical- scientific revolution which led to monopoly capitalism. Now, it is important not to deny the control that workers exercise both over the method of performing their tasks and the pace at which it is performed, but to see Taylorism only as the specification of task performance as Burawoy does, is to misconceive, I think, what Taylorism and scientific management were all about.
- keywords: analysis; braverman; burawoy; capitalism; class; conception; control; development; division; efficiency; execution; important; labour; management; monopoly; performance; process; revolution; scientific; separation; surplus; symposium; task; taylorism; technical; view; workers; working
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- ar-20245
- author: Nelson, Randle
- title: Science as Capitalist Ideology: The Sociology of Max Weber Reconsidered
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 10883
- flesch: 50
- summary: [Taylor 1945, p. 160] The Bethmann conscience that helped shape Max Weber's Germany is precisely what Weber advocates and encourages as he develops his sociology. Thus, through a process of substitution, bureaucracy rather than capitalism, the development of independent political leadership rather than the fact that one class profits by the labor of another, becomes the central problem of the German socio-economic order (see Cohen 1972 and Wright 1974-75) Scientist Weber provides citizen Weber with a solution to this problem, the leader with charisma.
- keywords: able; administrative; alternate; analysis; arguments; arrangements; assembly; attempt; bendix; bethmann; bias; bismarck; brief; bureaucracy; bureaucratic; capitalism; capitalistic; central; change; charismatic; citizen; class; classes; cohen; control; corporate; development; domination; economic; economic arrangements; economy; emphasis; engels; estates; europe; fact; force; frankfort; freedom; general; germany; gerth; giddens; government; great; ideal; ideology; important; individual; interests; junkers; labor; later; leadership; liberal; marx; masses; max; max weber; mayer; means; middle; military; mills; modern; national; neutral; new; objective; objectivity; order; organization; people; point; policy; political; politics; position; power; present; press; problem; reality; reforms; relationship; revolution; routes; rule; science; scientific; scientist; security; self; separation; social; sociologist; sociology; state; successors; super; support; system; taylor; time; trade; type; united; university; value; view; von; war; way; weber; work; workers; world; wright; years; york
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- ar-20246
- author: Denis, Wildred
- title: Sociology, Philosophy and Materialism
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 11357
- flesch: 47
- summary: Using Thomas Kuhn as a starting point, I shall review some of the literature on sociological theory, indicating the major difficulties of discussing social theory while omitting any philosophical dimen- sion. My position essentially is that social theory cannot be fully understood without its philosophical roots.
- keywords: accepted; actual; alford; alternate; althusser; analysis; approaches; aspects; assumptions; attempt; base; basis; certain; change; class; concepts; conceptual; consciousness; crisis; definition; development; differences; different; dimension; discussion; distinction; dominant; empirical; ethnomethodology; example; explanation; facts; frankfurt; functionalism; fundamental; general; historical; idealist; ideological; issue; keat; knowledge; kolakowski; kuhn; language; level; literature; london; main; major; man; marx; marxist; materialism; metaphysical; models; natural; naturalism; nature; neutrality; new; objective; observational; paper; paradigm; particular; phenomenology; phenomenon; philosophical; philosophies; philosophy; points; political; positivist; presents; press; problem; question; realist; reality; realm; relationship; research; result; ritzer; routes; science; scientific; share; smart; social; social science; social theory; society; sociological; sociologists; sociology; states; structural; struggle; subject; syntheses; system; terms; theoretical; theories; theory; thorns; traditions; turner; underlying; urry; use; value; view; weber; work; world; york; zeitlin
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- ar-20247
- author: Glenday, Daneil; Shrenk, Christopher
- title: Trade Unions and the State: An Interpretive Essay on the Development of Class and State Relations in Canada, 1889-1947
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 6354
- flesch: 47
- summary: This essay investigates the interaction between the Canadian state and trade unions during the first half of this century primarily in terms of the political incorporation of trade unions in Canada. Trade unions enter the picture as reducing the class nature of the conflict by focusing almost exclusively on economistic or instru- mental demands.
- keywords: action; advanced; alternate; american; approach; bargaining; business; canada; canadian; canadian state; capitalism; class; class conflict; collective; commission; conflict; consciousness; development; disputes; emphasis; employers; federal; federal government; government; h.a; historical; hyman; important; incorporation; industrial; industry; institutionalization; interests; international; international trade; labour; large; leaders; legislation; levels; london; management; marxist; members; movement; necessary; organizations; parties; political; position; process; provincial; recognition; relations; representatives; role; routes; royal; second; social; society; sociological; state; strike; system; time; toronto; trade; trade unions; tradition; trotsky; unionism; unions; united; workers; working
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- ar-20248
- author: Mayer, Jan
- title: Mature Marx: The Case Against an Epistemological Break
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 3127
- flesch: 33
- summary: MATURE MARX: THE CASE AGAINST AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL BREAK by Jan Mayer The philosophers have only INTERPRETED the world differently, the point is, to CHANGE it - 1 This quotation, taken along with Marx's other theses on Feuerbach, such as his critique of contemplative materialism as stopping at isolated man or human essence conceived of outside the aggregate of social relations and objective activity, sums up his attitude to idealist philosophy in general, as well as his dissatisfaction with Feuerbach 's anthropological humanism. In his early usage, Marx corrected Hegel by making history march on its feet instead of in the airy realm of Pure Reason; his principal concern was with the contradiction between bourgeoisie and proletariat and the way in which modes of production develop historically through the conflictual supercession of previous forms and social relations.
- keywords: accumulation; activity; alienation; analysis; capitalist; commodity; conditions; dialectics; early; economy; elements; exchange; hegel; historical; labour; man; marx; material; materialist; mature; means; particular; philosophy; point; political; production; reality; relations; social; society; surplus; unity; value; works; world
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- ar-20257
- author: Heiple, Philip
- title: The Politics of Probability
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 8503
- flesch: 43
- summary: In this way probability theory could be viewed as a source for social theory inductively drawn from frequency distributions (recall Snizek's (1975) finding that mode of analysis determines theoretical perspective). The logical theory of probability is not in use in the social sciences, Unsuccessful attempts have been made to formulate social probability along the lines of the logical theory.
- keywords: alternate; analysis; anthropology; assumption; basis; biases; byrne; calculus; capitalism; carleton; carnap; case; certain; concept; critical; critique; department; development; events; ford; formal; general; graduate; gramsci; important; instrument; judgments; knower; knowledge; language; large; law; laws; level; life; logical; mathematical; means; metaphysics; methods; nagel; nature; new; newtonian; non; normality; numbers; official; opinionative; personal; phenomena; planning; plausible; points; polanyi; policy; political; polya; population; press; princeton; probabilistic; probability; probability theory; problems; quantitative; question; random; reality; reasoning; reification; reified; routes; sample; sampling; science; scientific; scientists; sense; set; social; social probability; society; sociological; sociology; state; statistical; students; subject; system; systematic; theorem; theory; thought; time; university; use; view; way; weber; work; world; york
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- ar-20258
- author: Hass, Gordon
- title: Claus Offe and the Capitalist State
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 6811
- flesch: 47
- summary: However, the only answer that Offe provides rests upon the assumption of functional necessity and thus the analysis of system relations becomes teleological. Returning now to Offe's argument regarding system relations, we see that he cannot proceed from an analysis of production as his approach to the economic system expunges production and replaces it with a flawed analysis of the commodity, an analysis which is then incorporated into the functional logic of system relations.
- keywords: accumulation; analysis; approach; argument; autonomy; basis; capitalist; capitalist state; class; commodity; concept; conditions; conflict; content; crisis; critical; determination; dominance; economic; economic system; economy; exchange; form; functional; general; interest; intervention; labour; labour power; legitimacy; nature; offe; organizing; policy; political; political system; power; principle; problem; processes; production; relations; relationships; sector; social; society; specific; stability; state; subordination; surplus; system; theory; use; value; work
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- ar-20259
- author: Ward, Bonnie
- title: The Myth of Autonomy in Family Farm Production
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 3704
- flesch: 37
- summary: The replacement of the family farm by corporate (capitalist) farming occurs after the incorporation of family farm production into the capitalist market. As is implicit in the foregoing discussion, the capacity of internal relations of family farm production to offer protection from transformed market conditions is limited.
- keywords: agricultural; agricultural production; analysis; autonomy; canadian; capitalist; commodity; conditions; corporatization; dependence; emergence; family; family farm; farm; farm production; farmers; farming; fowke; hedley; historical; history; independent; individual; interests; johnson; labour; market; members; mode; myth; ontario; ownership; policy; political; practice; process; producers; production; relations; role; significant; small; state; toronto; transformation; women; work
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- ar-20260
- author: Jhally, Sut
- title: Marxism and Underdevelopment
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 9795
- flesch: 44
- summary: Having thus established to his theoretical satisfaction the existence of different modes of production Laclau then has to theorize the rela- tions between the different modes. Where capitalism is dominant but where pre-capitalist modes still exist and where they are needed by capitalism, violence has to take place on more than the economic level and must enter the superstructural level as well.
- keywords: alavi; america; analysis; articulation; banaji; bourgeoisie; capitalism; capitalist mode; carter; class; classes; colonial; colonial mode; colonies; colony; commodity production; contemporary; contradiction; debate; dependence; development; different; distinction; dominant; dupre; economic; economy; elders; elements; exchange; existence; exploitation; extent; feudalism; form; formation; foster; frank; history; important; indigenous; labour; laclau; latin; level; main; marxist; metropolitan; mode; nature; new; notion; period; perspective; place; point; political; power; pre; problem; process; production; relations; relationship; rey; role; sense; single; social; state; structure; superstructures; surplus; system; terms; theoretical; theory; underdevelopment; unity; work; world
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- ar-20261
- author: Balkaoui, Janice
- title: A Critical Assesment of Media Studies
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 8335
- flesch: 42
- summary: Exactly two decades ago, Berelson delivered what was regarded by many as a eulogy for media studies, charging among other things that the field was troubled '.ot In short, our argument is that media studies should be incorporated into the wider study of stratification and legitimation (Murdock and Golding, 1977: 12).
- keywords: american; analysis; approach; assumption; attention; behaviour; canadian; capitalist; class; communication; concentration; concern; concerned; content; control; critical; cultural; culture; current; distribution; economic; eds; effects; elite; empirical; entertainment; evidence; example; form; framework; functionalist; functions; general; golding; groups; gurevitch; hegemony; ideas; ideological; ideology; impact; influence; information; inquiries; integration; journalism; level; literature; little; london; major; marxist; mass; mass communication; mass media; media; media content; media ownership; media research; media sociology; media studies; model; modern; murdock; n.y; nature; orientation; ownership; perspectives; political; position; power; press; quarterly; recent; relations; relationship; research; role; social; socialization; societal; societies; society; sociological; sociology; specific; state; stratification; structure; studies; study; system; theoretical; theory; tradition; view; vol; voting; weber; work
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- ar-20263
- author: Alford, Robert
- title: Elections, State Policy and the Marxian Tradition in Political Sociology
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 6081
- flesch: 56
- summary: The State of Cultural Theory: A Review of Past and Present Fashions 105 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from Carleton University, Department of Sociology & Anthropology http://www.archive.org/details/alternateroutesc04alte Elections, State Policy and the Marxian Tradition in Political Sociology: An Interview Robert Alford Introduction Like the discipline in general, political sociology in North America has undergone considerable change since the early 1960s. In his career and publications, Robert Alford reflects many of those changes, which are of more than merely historical interest for scholars working in political sociology.
- keywords: alford; alternate; analysis; approach; canada; capitalist; case; certain; change; class; comparative; crises; critical; different; elections; elites; general; historical; impact; important; interests; interview; issues; j.c; marxist; outcome; participation; particular; party; people; pluralist; point; policies; policy; political; political sociology; politicized; politics; position; power; problem; public; question; r.a; research; right; robert; routes; sense; social; society; sociology; starting; state; structure; studies; study; theoretical; theory; tradition; university; urban; voting; way; ways; work; working
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- ar-20264
- author: Lord, Stella
- title: The Struggle for Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 9470
- flesch: 56
- summary: The women received only $25.00 a week in strike pay and this was due to run out after the tenth week. The Printers, for instance, were in a particularly bad situation because not only were they not receiving strike pay, but the UIC had ruled that because they were members of the same International as the stnikinc employees, they were ineligible for UIC payments.^ Christmas was approaching and the strike pay was running out.
- keywords: act; agreement; american; april; arbitration; artists; bank; bargaining; basis; brief; british; canada; canadian; case; change; clear; collective; collective bargaining; commission; company; cooligan; december; decision; demands; discrimination; economic; equal pay; equal value; examiners; federal; government; graphic; human; human rights; issue; job; jurisdiction; labour; legislation; local; male; matter; negotiations; note company; offer; ontario; ottawa; plant; plate; political; position; practices; pressure; printers; printing; process; provincial; question; rate; relations; rights; shime; shirley; similar; situation; steel; strike; strike pay; terms; time; tribunal; union; value; wage; women; work; workers; years
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- ar-20265
- author: White, Robert
- title: Knowledge and Power
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 9405
- flesch: 45
- summary: Following this, he argues for the necessity of teacher autonomy combined with greater input from pupils, such that the definition of curriculum knowledge will lie with the main protagonists in the educational process. Thorough analysis of the linkages between the school, state and economy is beyond the scope of this paper, but a sketch of some of the ways outside agencies influence public school curriculum can be provided.
- keywords: analysis; approach; capitalist; central; certain; classroom; classroom knowledge; concern; consciousness; content; control; courses; curriculum; development; economy; educational; educational knowledge; educational practices; educational process; eggleston; example; exercise; fact; form; formal; general; greater; green; halsey; hand; hidden; human; ideas; ideological; interests; karabel; knowledge; learning; learning process; limits; manner; material; means; nature; new; ontario; order; organization; participants; particular; perspective; point; power; practices; problem; process; production; provincial; reality; relations; relationship; research; role; school; schooling; sharp; social; society; sociological; specific; state; structure; students; study; system; teachers; terms; theoretical; time; toronto; university; valid; valid knowledge; values; view; ways; work; world; york; young
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- ar-20266
- author: Malcolmson, John
- title: The Limits of Keynesianism
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 4482
- flesch: 42
- summary: 94 However, as Mattick points out, there are serious problems inherent in the multiplier concept, which, in the final analysis, are rooted in the nature of state intervention and state spending within a capitalist economy. For this reason, it is no longer possible to speak of vital areas and processes which fall outside of this near pervasive blanket of state intervention.
- keywords: activity; advanced; analysis; business; capital; capitalist; class; conditions; consumption; crisis; current; debt; demand; economic; economy; effective; employment; equilibrium; expansion; expenditure; factors; fiscal; form; general; growth; income; increase; intervention; investment; keynes; keynesian; labour; level; mattick; monetary; money; national; nature; necessary; new; policy; practice; private; problems; production; propensity; reason; review; sector; social; spending; state; state intervention; surplus; system; total; value
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- ar-20267
- author: Clarke, Debra
- title: The State of Cultural Theory
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 15289
- flesch: 44
- summary: for bourgeois culture was supplanted with a new reverence for working class culture (heavily inspired by Hoggart) that amounts to a kind of perverse elitism. Willis, for example, acknowledges that trade unions are by far the most important working lcass institution, and Sparks notes that this acknowledgement alone marks an important advance for an institution which, while dedicated to the study of working class culture has not, as yet , produced any major study, either theoretical or empirical, of the trade union movement (1977: 27-28).
- keywords: account; adorno; agency; althusser; american; analysis; anderson; apparent; approach; argument; arnold; audience; benjamin; birmingham; capitalism; case; centre; class; class culture; communication; concept; concern; conditions; conflict; consciousness; contemporary; critical; criticism; critics; critique; cultural; cultural studies; cultural theory; culture; current; determination; development; different; discussion; domination; early; economic; effects; eliot; emergence; emphasis; empirical; english; european; example; following; forces; formation; forms; frankfurt; fundamental; general; gramsci; growth; historical; history; hoggart; horkheimer; human; ideological; ideologies; ideology; important; individual; industrial; influence; innis; institute; institutions; intellectual; interests; jay; labour; later; leavis; left; life; light; literary; literature; little; london; major; making; marxist; mass; mass culture; mass media; mass society; material; materialism; mcluhan; means; media; modes; movement; nature; necessary; need; new; non; notes; notion; order; organization; particular; period; place; point; political; politics; popular; position; possible; post; potential; power; practice; press; problem; process; production; radical; real; relations; research; revolutionary; sense; set; social; society; sociology; sparks; state; studies; study; swingewood; theoretical; theories; theorists; theory; thompson; thought; time; toronto; tradition; turn; u.s; understanding; united; university; war; way; ways; williams; work; working; working class; world; york
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- ar-20268
- author: Christensen, Erling
- title: Aspects of the Crisis in Petit Commodity Production in the Okanagan Valley
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 7155
- flesch: 49
- summary: In the current issue, two contributions deal with independent commodity production. Consequently, much debate has developed in recent years over the concept of petit commodity production and its role in Canadian agriculture.
- keywords: agricultural; agricultural land; agricultural production; alternate; anthropology; argument; attempts; bcfga; bctf; british; canada; canadian; capital; capitalist; carleton; cent; certain; circulation; class; columbia; commercial; commodities; commodity; commodity production; contradictions; control; costs; crisis; critical; dans; debt; des; development; dickinson; economy; family; farm; farmers; fresh; fruit; fruit production; government; graduate; growers; important; independent; industry; labour; land; larger; les; limited; m.a; major; mann; marketing; marx; mode; new; number; okanagan; operative; ottawa; paper; persistence; petit; petit commodity; pressure; price; producers; production; productivity; relations; retailers; returns; routes; selling; small; social; sociology; spheres; structure; students; time; total; transformation; tree; units; university; valley; value; vol; wage
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- ar-20269
- author: Myers, Marybelle
- title: Beyond the Fur Trade: The Rise and Fall of the Eskimo Cooperative
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 10594
- flesch: 53
- summary: Co-op wages are geared to a standard of living consist- ent with the Inuit culture but not competitive, although the gap is narrowing under pressure from the population. This reflected a basic disagreement between co-op personnel and government project officers as to how co-op affairs should be run.
- keywords: activities; agreement; alternate; arctic; arctic co; arctic quebec; area; art; assistance; available; based; bay; beginning; business; canada; canadian; capital; carving; case; cent; claims; commodity; community; company; consumer; corporate; corporation; course; crafts; culture; development; economic; economy; enterprise; eskimo; eskimo co; exchange; facilities; fact; federal; federation; figures; food; form; fur; goods; government; group; hudson; hunting; indian; instance; interests; inuit; jobs; labour; lack; land; large; living; local; making; makivik; market; members; money; movement; native; native co; needs; new; non; northern; northwest; nqia; operative; ops; order; ottawa; people; personnel; place; political; population; povungnituk; private; proceedings; process; production; programmes; provincial; quebec; quebec co; quebec inuit; resources; routes; self; services; significant; social; spite; state; structure; subsistence; support; territories; time; trade; trading; traditional; transfer; use; vallee; vol; wage; way; western; work; world; years
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- ar-20270
- author: Sansfacon, Daniel
- title: Sujet de Droit et Sujets de Droit: De la Pratique Juridique au Pluriel
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 7392
- flesch: 68
- summary: La connaissance rip la lni Le cas de R. v Catholique (1980) expl ique 1 ' element materiel de la connaissance et renferme aussi la question de la connaissance constructive. Ainsi, Pashukanis (1978), bien que cherchant une analyse de la forme juridique dans les relations objectives qui la fondent et qu'elle vient ensuite regler, constate-t-
- keywords: ainsi; alors; alternate; analyse; apparemment; aussi; autre; aux; avons; bien; c'est; c.c.c; capital; cas; categorie; cependant; certaines; ces; cette; cit; comme; commun; conditions; connaissance; connaitre; corps; cree; d'abord; d'un; dans; de la; deja; des; deux; devient; devoir; dire; discours; dit; donne; droit; economique; edelman; effet; elle; encore; est; etre; exemple; faire; fait; faut; fois; formation; forme; general; ici; ils; individu; infraction; juge; juridique; justement; justice; l'elu; l'etat; l'on; l'un; law; legislateur; les; lex; loi; lois; london; ltd; lui; maclean; mais; marxiste; maspero; mediateur; meme; miaille; moins; n'en; n'est; nature; non; nous; par; paris; pas; perspective; peuple; peut; politique; possibility; poulantzas; pour; pourtant; pouvoir; pratique; premier; pretend; probleme; processus; qu'il; qu'on; qu'un; que; question; qui; r. v; realisation; realite; regies; relations; routes; s'agit; s'il; sans; savoir; second; sens; sera; ses; situation; sociale; societe; soit; son; sont; sorte; sous; state; sujet; sur; terminologique; tous; tout; travail; tribunal; une; voir; volonte; woolworth
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- ar-20271
- author: Edelson, Miriam
- title: Accountable to Whom? Trends in Management-Labour Relations in Local Government
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 9801
- flesch: 48
- summary: British Columbia is the only province where public sector employers may form accredited organizations. The letter ended with a reaffirmation of the Minister's support 117 of Council's mandate to enable public sector employers ... to attain fair and equitable levels of compensation relative ^to the private sector and to each other (Wolf e , 1978) .
- keywords: ability; accreditation; accredited; alternate; attempt; bargaining; british; british columbia; canada; canadian; capital; cent; certain; character; civic; collective; columbia; community; conditions; control; costs; council; crisis; cupe; decisions; demands; dollars; economic; effect; employers; equal; example; expenditure; federal; funding; general; government; gross; gvrd; impact; increases; insurance; issue; labour; labour relations; leave; legislation; levels; local; local government; local state; management; members; municipal; negotiations; new; officials; organization; paper; pay; pebc; points; political; position; pressure; private; private sector; problems; process; programs; province; provincial; public; public employers; public sector; public services; relations; representatives; research; revenues; routes; sector; sector bargaining; sector employers; services; settlements; sick; social; specific; state; strike; structures; substantial; system; taxes; terms; total; transfers; union; value; vancouver; vol; wage; workers; years
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- ar-20272
- author: Robinson, David
- title: Community Colleges and the Division Between Mental and Manual Labour
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 8854
- flesch: 43
- summary: The work of Nicos Poulantzas on the contribution of the educational apparatus to the reproduction of the division of mental and manual labour will be utilized since it is particularly helpful in understanding the relationship between community college education and the capitalist workplace. Their insinuation is that capital's interests have been represented in the development of policy on community college education.
- keywords: alternate; analysis; area; attention; bowles; braverman; canada; canadian; capitalist; capitalist labour; clark; class; classroom; college; college graduates; community; community college; conception; contribution; control; correspondence; curriculum; david; division; eds; education; education system; engineering; engineers; example; experience; fact; functions; gintis; graduates; hidden; higher; ideological; individuals; karabel; knowledge; labour; labour process; levels; literature; lower; management; manual labour; mental; necessary; new; ontario; organization; overt; particular; point; political; porter; position; postsecondary; poulantzas; production; programs; recent; relations; relationship; research; review; role; routes; school; schooling; separation; skills; social; social relations; society; sociologists; sociology; specific; students; study; system; technical; technicians; technologists; technology; terms; theoretical; toronto; training; universities; university; university graduates; vol; work; workers; workplace; york; zsigmond
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- ar-20273
- author: Armstrong, Pat; Armstrong, Hugh
- title: Beyond Numbers: Problems with Quantitative Data
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 13245
- flesch: 57
- summary: Since many women are employed in smaller workplaces, this information may not only count some women inaccurately but also exclude entirely many of those in the lowest paid jobs. - II - 3. What this evidence suggests is that, if a question on sexual harassment were asked of all employed women, there would probably be an overwhelmingly negative response because of the way women perceive and respond to advances and because many women are segregated into jobs where there are few men to do the harassing.
- keywords: 1983; account; actual; age; analysis; answers; anthropology; armstrong; assumptions; available; basis; benefits; canada; canadian; care; carleton; case; cat; categories; category; census; changes; children; choices; collection; concepts; conditions; course; data; day; department; different; difficult; earnings; economic; effect; employment; examination; example; factors; facts; families; family; female; financial; force; government; graduate; health; historical; history; home; hours; household; husband; ideas; important; income; information; issues; job; jobs; labour; labour force; likely; little; m.a; machine; male; married; means; methodology; methods; monthly; nature; new; numbers; ottawa; particular; pay; people; person; perspective; place; possible; problems; process; quantitative; questions; real; research; respondents; responses; sample; segregation; services; sex; social; sociology; statistics; statistics canada; status; structure; studies; supply; support; survey; tables; tabulations; techniques; theoretical; theory; time; university; view; wages; way; wife; women; work; workers; working
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- ar-20274
- author: Hamilton, Roberta
- title: The Collusion with Patriarchy: A Psychoanalytic Account
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 5889
- flesch: 49
- summary: The social reproduction of heterosexual men and women who place unequal value upon masculinity and femininity implies its corollary: that a whole range of needs, feelings, attitudes, desires and behaviours have had to be repressed in the process. The resolution of these two oedipal dramas will determine the biological maturation of the child and its subsequent entry into 'human' society through the incorporation of the parents' social standards.
- keywords: account; active; aims; analysis; anxiety; attachment; basic; body; capitalism; castration; child; civilization; complex; course; desires; development; ego; envy; family; father; female; femininity; freud; girl; heterosexual; horowitz; human; life; love; male; marcuse; marx; mother; nature; new; object; oedipal; oedipus; particular; passive; patriarchy; penis; primary; process; production; psychoanalytic; psychosexual; renunciation; repression; result; sexual; sexuality; social; society; species; structure; surplus; theory; women; work; world; york
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- ar-20275
- author: Saunders, Eileen
- title: Socialist Feminist Theory: The Issue of Revolution
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 7038
- flesch: 47
- summary: 7. Implications for Recruitment of Political Cadres: The recruitment of indigenous cadres through appeals to Moslem women is useful not only in expanding party influence but also in their serving as prefigurative models of the role of women in the new society. Certainly, one must recognize the genuine role of mass parties in socialist states, but these are parties which are distinguished by their pyramidal structures, with an extreme concentration of power at the top of the pyramid (Miliband, 1977:115).
- keywords: analysis; apparatus; authority; c.c.p; capital; challenge; china; chinese; clan; class; clear; conditions; consolidation; control; davin; development; discussion; divorce; documents; economic; female; focus; growth; historical; hou; ideology; impact; implications; important; individuals; industrial; industry; insurgency; investment; labour; land; law; liberation; marriage; massell; material; mobilization; movement; new; notes; party; payoffs; period; phase; point; policies; policy; political; power; press; problem; process; production; proletariat; property; question; regime; relations; relationship; requisites; response; revolutionary; role; significant; socialist; socialist state; society; soviet; state; status; strategic; system; task; traditional; transition; university; urban; use; women; words
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- ar-20276
- author: Morris, Cerise
- title: Pressuring the Canadian State for Women's Rights: The Role of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 6751
- flesch: 47
- summary: The problems for public interest groups with limited financial resources have been summed up by Goldstein (1979:139): Since they represent no special interests, they are unlikely to possess any - 95 - automatic source cf financial support and must scramble for money where they can. Pressure groups, or public-interest groups as they are often called, are organizations whose members act together to influence public policy in order to promote their common interest (Pross, 1975:2).
- keywords: action; annual; areas; behaviour; bureaucracy; cabinet; canada; canadian; change; commission; committee; conditions; council; country; equal; executive; face; federal; feminist; financial; funding; government; groups; hand; impact; influence; information; institutional; interests; interview; issues; labour; limited; lobbying; marsden; meetings; members; minister; model; movement; nac; national; network; news; objectives; office; opinion; organization; organized; ottawa; party; pay; personal; point; policy; political; politics; pressure; pressure groups; priorities; problems; process; pross; public; regional; representatives; resources; restraining; rights; role; social; status; support; system; time; toronto; united; value; voluntary; way; women; work
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- ar-20277
- author: Bourgeault, Ron
- title: The Development of Capitalism and the Subjugation of Native Women in Northern Canada
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 9510
- flesch: 48
- summary: The social structure that emerged, the restructured nature of relationships between Indian women and men, the form of colonialism that developed and the nature and form of the state that emerged within the fur trade, all were dependent upon the mode of extraction of the surplus labour (Marx, 1977b: 791; Marx, 1977a:209). Its intent is to reflect upon the way in which Indian women were in fact conquered and drawn into a class society and how male domination assumed a form that did not exist before the penetration of capitalism.
- keywords: bay; blood; bourgeois; breed; breed women; british; canadian; capital; capitalism; class; class society; collective; colonial; colonialism; commodity; communal; company; conquest; control; dependent; development; different; domination; economic; egalitarian; egalitarian society; elite; european; european men; exploitation; family; form; fur; fur trade; half; hudson; indian; indian population; indian society; indian women; individual; internal; labour; market; merchant; merchant capital; mixed; national; native; native women; necessary; new; northern; officer; oppression; order; particular; people; petty; population; position; posts; power; process; production; relations; relationships; river; situation; slave; social; societies; society; state; support; system; trade; units; use; women; work; working; years; york
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- ar-20278
- author: Creese, Gillian
- title: Immigration Policies and the Creation of an Ethnically Segmented Working Class in British Columbia, 1880-1923
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 11530
- flesch: 44
- summary: The ability to acquire Chinese workers at such low rates - 9 - of pay was premised on the historically lower subsistence level of Asian peasants in comparison to Europeans, the fact that the reproduction costs of Chinese labour were borne in China rather than in Canada, the system of contract labour to hire Chinese workers and, equally as important, the political inferiority accorded Asian immigrants by Canadian immigration policies. In the sawmills, Chinese labour earned between SI and S1.50 per day, the Japanese earned between 90 cents and $1.25, while unskilled white wages started at $2 and went up to $4.50 per day for skilled white labour (Royal Commission, 1902 : 101-124,360-365) .
- keywords: 1976; agitation; american; analysis; anthropology; anti; asian; asian immigration; asian labour; asian workers; b.c; bonacich; british; british columbia; canada; canadian; capitalist; carleton; century; cheap; cheng; chinese; chinese immigration; chinese labour; chinese workers; class; class conflict; columbia; commission; communities; community; competition; conditions; conflict; consciousness; context; country; creation; dans; day; development; east; economic; effect; employers; employment; ethnic; ethnicity; european; fishermen; focus; formation; general; government; historical; history; ideological; immigrants; immigration; immigration policies; important; indian; industry; inequality; inferiority; japanese; japanese immigration; labour; labour market; labour organization; labourers; lower; major; market; militancy; mines; mining; month; new; non; organization; ottawa; ouvriere; paper; permanent; phillips; point; policies; political; position; practices; press; province; provincial; race; racial; racist; railway; relations; research; resources; review; rights; role; royal; royal commission; segmented; settlers; social; society; sociology; split; state; status; struggle; studies; system; toronto; trade; turn; union; university; unskilled; vancouver; wages; ward; western; white; white labour; white workers; white working; workers; working; working class
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- ar-20279
- author: Blight, Stephen
- title: Nationalism and Ideology
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 6795
- flesch: 46
- summary: Historical materialism posits the primacy of the relations of production in society, with class struggle constituting history's motive force. Next, Laclau makes a distinction between class struggle and classes-in-struggle.
- keywords: agents; althusser; basis; bloc; bourgeoisie; capitalist; character; class; class struggle; classes; colonial; common; concept; concrete; consciousness; contradiction; debray; development; discourse; dominant; dominant class; economic; elements; existence; factors; force; form; formation; fractions; hegemonic; hegemony; historical; history; hobsbawm; idea; ideological; ideology; indigenous; interests; interpellation; kikuyu; laclau; lenin; level; london; marxism; marxists; material; modern; nairn; nationalism; necessary; neo; new; order; people; petty; political; position; poulantzas; power; practices; process; production; progressive; real; relations; relationship; revolution; role; second; social; socialist; society; space; state; struggle; subjects; territory; theory; tradition; view; world
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- ar-20280
- author: Lustiger-Thaler, Henri
- title: Nationalism and Class: A Case Analysis
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 12023
- flesch: 47
- summary: For Davis, though there are many references in Marx's work to the leading class, national class and universal - 64 - class, caution should be exercised in their explanatory value. This paper will argue, on the contrary, that nationalism within relatively homogeneous societies is expressed as well as appropriated by various class interests under the pervasiveness of a complex hegemony.
- keywords: absence; action; analysis; approach; bloom; bourgeoisie; canadian; capital; capitalist; case; central; certain; change; class; class interests; class relations; classes; collective; common; complex; conditions; congress; context; convention; csn; cultural; debate; des; development; discourse; earlier; early; economic; economy; effect; evident; expression; factors; federal; forces; form; formation; framework; ftq; general; government; gramsci; greater; groups; growth; hegemony; historic; hobsbawm; ideological; ideology; indicative; integration; interests; issue; la question; laberge; labour; larger; left; lesage; level; liberals; marchand; marx; movement; nairn; national; national class; national question; nationalism; nature; ndp; new; notion; nous; official; organization; paper; particular; parties; party; period; perspective; point; political; political action; political party; popular; position; power; president; previous; problem; process; project; province; provincial; public; quebec; quebecois; question; quiet; referendum; reform; regard; relationship; report; revolution; role; sector; sense; sixties; social; society; speech; sphere; state; structural; struggle; support; syndical; terms; time; type; union; view; workers; working; working class; years
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- ar-20281
- author: Mannette, J.A.
- title: 'Stark Remnants of Blackpast': Thinking on Gender, Ethnicity and Class in 1780s Nova Scotia
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 10041
- flesch: 51
- summary: There is also some evidence that Black women were promised lower wages for domestic service than were Black men. Further, she explicitly acknowledges the deficit in women's history' of theorising about and analyses of Black women (2A).
- keywords: 1780s; 1976; 1983; accounts; activities; american; analysis; birchtown; black; black community; black labour; black loyalists; black nova; black people; black women; bray; british; capitalist; children; church; class; class relations; colonial; communities; community; construction; crime; cultural; culture; des; difference; dominance; dominant; economic; ethnic; ethnic relations; ethnicity; examination; experience; expression; families; family; following; formation; forms; free; gender; gender relations; gender subordination; group; halifax; historical; history; ideology; individuals; inequality; investigation; john; labour; land; life; little; lives; loyalists; marxist; need; new; nova; nova scotia; order; orthodox; people; period; position; practices; processes; production; punishment; race; relations; religious; research; role; school; scotia; segregated; segregation; sense; sex; shelburne; slaves; social; social relations; society; subordinate; subordination; system; terms; time; understanding; unequal; university; visible; wages; walker; way; white; wilson; women; work; york
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- ar-20282
- author: Shulze, David
- title: Rural Manufacture in Lower Canada: Understanding Seigniorial Privilege and the Transition in the Countryside
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 10953
- flesch: 57
- summary: Characterizing the phenomenon In discussing capitalist production by seigneurs, most authors have been content to deal with Joliette and, occasionally, Joseph Masson. For Mears and McGill, as for Edouard Scallon, a partner of Joliette whose access to Lavaltrie's productive possibilities always required payment to Joliette or his widow, 38 the use of seigneurial privilege was an essential part of their institution of capitalist production.
- keywords: activity; agricultural; analysis; appendix; assembly; basis; bernier; bourgeoisie; british; cahiers; canada; canadian; capitalist; capitalist production; censitaires; century; coercive; commutation; concentration; concession; conditions; control; countries; countryside; courville; d'histoire; d'industrie; dans; dcb; de la; des; description; development; domestic; early; edition; elements; entrepreneur; est; example; exchange; export; flour; forges; form; france; free; historical; important; industrial; industry; instance; jean; joliette; joseph; journals; l'abbe; labour; land; large; lavaltrie; les; local; london; lower; lower canada; lumber; manufacture; manufacturing; market; marx; marxist; mass; maurice; mctavish; means; mercantile; merchant; milling; mills; monetary; montreal; natural; nature; naylor; new; nineteenth; ouellet; par; period; phenomenon; place; point; pour; press; privilege; production; progress; property; quebec; qui; relations; rent; resources; rights; robert; rural; saint; salee; saw; seigneurial; seigneurial privilege; seigneurs; society; state; sur; surplus; system; tenure; terms; timber; time; toronto; township; trade; transformation; transition; university; use; value; village; vol; wage; wealth; wood; york
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- ar-20283
- author: Russell, Jesse
- title: Response to "The Development of Capitalism and the Subjugation of Native Women in Northern Canada"
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 1010
- flesch: 55
- summary: Indian women cannot share the same strategies used by white women because of their eco-centric world-view. After ten years of experience working alternatively with white women's centres (Rape Crisis etc.) and working on Reserves with Indian women, I felt a strong urgency to address the inherent incompatability between the white women's feminist movement and the unique position (i.e. subjugation) of Indian women.
- keywords: bourgeault; culture; feminist; indian; jesse; movement; native; nature; sense; view; white; women; world
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- ar-20284
- author: Broad, Dave
- title: Peripheralization of the Centre: W(h)ither Canada
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 11296
- flesch: 53
- summary: Certainly the present 32 conjuncture presents Canadian labour with the opportunity of coalescing with other popular sectors and small business in opposition to the pe r lphe ral 1 zat ion of the centre. Panitch, noting recent events such as the Canad iani zat ion of the United Auto Workers, suggests that Canadian labour as a whole is confronted with the opportunity of overcoming its regionally- and sectorally-div ided past.
- keywords: -the; 1980; accumulation; alternate; american; amin; anthropology; austerity; b.c; basis; bennett; british; broad; canada; canadian; capital; capitalist; carleton; case; centre; changes; class; conditions; conservative; control; core; corporate; countries; crisis; department; development; discussion; division; dixon; economic; economy; enterprise; et al; exploitation; export; force; fordist; foreign; forms; free; frobel; future; general; global; government; graduate; growth; havemann; high; houle; ideology; industrial; industrialization; industrialized; industry; international; international division; investment; ipheral; issues; izat; izat ion; labour; liberal; like; literature; logic; long; low; manufacturing; marchak; market; means; monopoly; monthly; new; new international; nidl; note; operations; ottawa; panitch; periphery; policy; political; popular; power; present; press; process; processes; production; programs; reality; recent; relations; relationship; research; restructuring; review; routes; sector; semi; social; society; sociology; solidarity; state; struggles; studies; sweezy; system; technological; technology; time; toronto; trade; transnational; trends; u.s; unemployment; union; united; university; vol; von; wage; wage labour; welfare; williams; women; workers; working; world; world economy; world market; york; zones
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- ar-20285
- author: Faustino-Santos, Ronald
- title: A Race of Cuckoos: Chinese Migration, Anti-Chinese Legislation and the Canadian Pacific Railway
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 8244
- flesch: 54
- summary: Those who benefited from the Chinese migrant labour trade were the imperial states which could expropriate Chinese labour for use in the colonies. The military power of the imperialist nations also created an unequal political relationship which meant that the foreign powers were able to regulate the flow of Chinese labour.
- keywords: accumulation; anti; britain; british; british columbia; british state; campbell; canada; canadian; canadian state; canton; capital; capitalist; century; cheap; china; chinese; chinese immigration; chinese labour; chinese legislation; chinese workers; class; colonies; colony; columbia; conditions; conflict; construction; contract; contract labour; coolie; economic; economy; european; example; exclusion; fact; foreign; form; general; government; houses; ideology; immigration; imperial; imperial state; imperialism; interests; labour; labour market; labour system; labour trade; labourers; legislation; level; lines; macdonald; market; material; merchant; metropole; migrant; migrant labour; nineteenth; non; opium; organized; owners; plantation; policy; political; powers; provincial; race; racial; racism; railway; recruitment; relations; role; social; source; split; state; system; trade; treaty; united; west; white; wickberg; workers; working; world; world system
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- ar-20287
- author: Bourgeault, Ron
- title: Indigenous Women and Capitalist Exploitation: Response to Jesse Russell
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 2349
- flesch: 47
- summary: The discussion centred on Indian women and the Indian Act. Finally, 145 Russell contends that I portray Indian women as apathetic, ignorant, and physically unaggressive.
- keywords: aboriginal; article; assimilation; capitalism; class; culture; destruction; differences; exploitation; feminist; indian; indigenous; labour; metis; movement; oppression; people; relations; response; russell; society; subjugation; system; white; women; working; world
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- ar-20289
- author: Vasquez Garcia, Veronica
- title: Gramsci, Women and the State
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 9239
- flesch: 41
- summary: Obviously, poor women benefited more than other women, although needless to say, women formed more than 60 percent of the poorest Nicaraguans (Idem). Women whose husbands are closely tied to these relations do not represent a problem (repression of sexuality in Gramsci refers only to male sexuality), while women whose husbands are millionaires are luxury mammals and can afford behaving like prostitutes as a way of entertainment.
- keywords: analysis; anthropology; battle; bloc; capitalist; carleton; change; civil; civil society; class; classes; conception; concepts; consciousness; consent; counter; critical; critique; cultural; culture; department; different; division; domestic; dominant; economic; family; feminist; forms; function; gender; graduate; gramsci; gramscian; group; hegemonic; hegemony; historical; human; ideas; ideological; ideology; institutions; intellectuals; interests; jaggar; labour; lives; male; marxist; needs; negotiation; new; oppression; order; organic; organization; particular; party; patriarchal; political; politics; position; power; practices; private; production; project; relations; relationship; research; revolution; revolutionary; role; sassoon; sense; sexual; sexuality; showstack; social; socialist; socialist feminist; society; sociology; state; struggle; students; system; terms; theoretical; theory; university; way; ways; welfare; women; words; working; world
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- ar-20290
- author: Skinner, David
- title: Public Broadcasting in Canada: Subordinate Service
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 6565
- flesch: 44
- summary: Informed by a commercial rationale, private broadcasting in Canada was largely constructed as an extension of American broadcasting empires. While the history of broadcasting is indeed the product of real historical struggles, the regulatory framework has contextualized these struggles so as to foreground the reproduction of private capital.
- keywords: accumulation; act; activities; american; broadcasters; broadcasting; broadcasting act; broadcasting system; canada; canadian; canadian broadcasting; canadian state; cbc; central; commercial; commission; concerns; continued; corporation; country; crbc; crtc; development; discourse; early; economic; foreign; form; government; growth; historical; history; interests; legislation; little; national; nationalist; network; new; notes; ownership; policy; political; practice; pressure; private; private broadcasters; private capital; private sector; private stations; production; programming; public; public broadcasting; radio; radio broadcasting; railways; regulation; regulatory; relations; report; resources; revenue; role; royal; sector; service; state; stations; structure; system; television; toronto; university; weir
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- ar-20291
- author: Shreenan, Paul
- title: On the Devaluation of Women's Labour: Hegemonic and Local Ideological Practices
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 7817
- flesch: 47
- summary: In fishing communities, the focus of this paper, women contribute to the family economy through a variety of productive strategies including subsistence production, the informal economy and waged labour (Connelly and MacDonald, 1983:46), yet women's work has consistently been devalued, undervalued or simply ignored by both the scholarly and broader community (Porter, 1987:48). Unfortunately, as the authors are well aware, the material is practically devoid of the presence of women and women's experience except where they are mentioned in a sexist and derogatory way.
- keywords: analysis; armstrong; atlantic; boat; canada; capitalism; case; catch; change; class; communities; contradictions; contribution; cultural; culture; davis; definition; development; discussion; division; domestic; economic; enterprise; equality; example; fact; family; fisher; fishing; focus; free; gender; hegemonic; household; ideological; ideological practice; ideology; important; independence; individuals; labour; legitimate; level; liberal; liberalism; local; male; market; material; mies; new; nova; opportunity; particular; patriarchal; points; porter; practice; press; private; problem; process; processes; production; public; relations; scotia; small; social; society; southwest; specific; state; strategies; structural; studies; subordination; terms; theory; unequal; university; value; variety; way; ways; women; work; world; york
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- ar-20292
- author: Hubka, David
- title: Historical Materialism By Cross-Sectional Survey Design: The Limits of E.O. Wrights Study of Class Structure
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 5804
- flesch: 47
- summary: In his most recent work, Wright (1989) considers a full range of the many criticisms directed at his conceptualization and analysis of class structure. Theoretical impulses arising from this core feature are, as Wright sees it, torn between developing either simple or complex models of class structure in order to enhance its explanatory power.
- keywords: 1986a; abstraction; analysis; approach; attempts; basis; capitalism; categories; change; claims; class; class structure; classes; concepts; concrete; conditions; consciousness; cross; data; determination; development; erik; exploitation; fact; formation; forms; future; general; historical; history; ibid; individual; interests; level; limits; london; marx; marxist; materialism; means; mechanisms; method; mode; new; olin; philosophy; possible; power; production; project; range; relations; research; review; revolutionary; sayer; sectional; social; socialism; society; sociology; structure; struggle; survey; theoretical; theory; typology; value; work; wright
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- ar-20293
- author: Turcotte, Michael
- title: Parker, R.G. Bodies, Pleasures and Passions : Sexual Culture in Contemporary Brazil
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 561
- flesch: 48
- summary: Only in the conclusion Parker specified that his study focuses on sexual culture in urban Brazil and not all Brazil. Richard Parker's first book keeps the attention of readers interested in sexual culture and gender studies.
- keywords: author; bodies; book; brazil; code; culture; parker; passions; pleasures; sexual; social
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- ar-20294
- author: Fogarasi, George
- title: Aronowitz, Stanlezy & Henry A. Giroux. Postmodern Education: Politics , Culture and Social Criticism,
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 659
- flesch: 26
- summary: They use the language of postmodernism to give a new shine to critical pedagogy in an attempt to reintroduce these timely concerns to an audience that has dismissed anything remotely Marxist at a stroke in order to frolic in its simulacra. The book begins by contrasting progressive and postmodern (postmodern as critical theory in this instance) approaches to social change by analyzing Bennet's drug and education offensives.
- keywords: aronowitz; critical; criticism; discourse; education; giroux; pedagogy; politics; postmodernism; public; social; students; theory
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- ar-20295
- author: Labelle, Paul
- title: LA FOLIE AU DECLIN DU MOYEN-AGE
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 2882
- flesch: 64
- summary: Par contre, lors de la naissance du capitalisme et de 1 'emergence de la science comme forme de connaissance , le clerge incorpore un nouvel element dans sa pratique discursive sur la deviance. la conduite bizarre parmi les indices de la sllerie .
- keywords: age; aux; avec; certains; ces; cette; ceux; chasse; clerge; clerical; comme; contre; corps; dans; de la; demoniaque; des; deviance; diable; discours; ecclesiastique; elements; entre; epoque; est; existence; feodale; folie; fous; george; history; inclut; l'eglise; l'epoque; l'ordre; la folie; la sorcellerie; les; lors; malleus; meme; monde; new; op.cit; par; pas; pendant; peut; possession; pour; qu'il; que; qui; satan; savoir; selon; siecle; societe; son; sont; sorcellerie; sorcieres; sur; une; york
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- ar-20296
- author: Kandrack, Mary-Anne
- title: STUDYING PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC KNOWLEDGE: NOTES TOWARD A WORKING DEFINITION OF IDEOLOGY
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 1494
- flesch: 41
- summary: the concept of ideology refers precisely to the objectification of social processes for the purpose of technical manipulation and control (as opposed to practical or emancipatory aims {Habermas, 1972}). Lastly, Finn (1982) also argues that ideology is involved not only in the mystification of social reality but also in its reif ication .
- keywords: analytical; books; concept; control; discourse; discursive; domination; feminist; finn; foucault; habermas; ideology; knowledge; new; power; practices; press; processes; relations; social; therapy; thompson; york
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- ar-20297
- author: Mosco, Vincent
- title: Communication, Culture and Power
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 8774
- flesch: 48
- summary: While Dr. Mosco's expertise is in the political economy of communications, the breadth and depth of his interests are apparent in this interview in which he explores contemporary debates over the nature of capitalist society, the relationships between cultural studies and political economy in communication studies, and the implications of globalization, deregulation, and privatization in the communication industries. One of the things I've tried to do over the Alternate Routes, Volume 10, 1993 Alternate Routes, Volume 10. 1993 years is to give communication studies a stronger theoretical grounding.
- keywords: advance; age; agreement; alternate; analysis; area; book; broadcasting; business; canada; canadian; capitalism; carleton; case; challenge; communication; companies; competition; computer; critical; crtc; cultural; cultural studies; culture; david; democracy; democratic; development; distance; economic; economy; editorial; example; field; film; fordism; forms; global; growth; important; industries; industry; information; integration; interest; interview; issue; labour; like; local; long; major; market; mass; media; mosco; national; need; new; notion; organized; pay; people; place; policies; policy; political; political economy; post; power; press; production; public; questions; range; recent; regulation; relations; research; routes; sector; services; social; society; sociology; state; students; studies; system; technologies; technology; telecommunication; telephone; television; theoretical; thinking; time; trade; tradition; u.s; understanding; university; users; vincent; volume; wide; work; years
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- ar-20298
- author: Rideout, Vanda
- title: Telecommunication Policy for Whom? An Analysis of Recent CRTC Decisions
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 10214
- flesch: 49
- summary: Competition in telecommunication business services has, paradoxically, resulted in a more regulated telecommunication environment; one in which there is less regulation in the public interest but more regulation to manage market forces. The telecommunication users formed these umbrella associations to get cheaper, efficient, flexible, integrated, and specially designed telecommunication services.
- keywords: accounting; alternate; application; association; attachment; bcrl; bell; bell canada; bloc; british; business; cac; canada; canadian; capitalist; cent; cep; civil; class; classes; cncp; coalitions; columbia; commission; communications; companies; company; competition; compromises; crtc; decision; decision crtc; demands; distance; dominant; economic; enhanced; equipment; example; federal; fractions; government; groups; hearing; hegemonic; industry; information; interconnection; interests; interim; issues; large; lightel; line; local; long; long distance; ltd; market; monopoly; mosco; national; net; network; new; notice; number; order; organizations; ottawa; policies; policy; political; position; poulantzas; power; practices; private; process; programs; providers; public; radio; rail; rates; rebalancing; regulated; regulation; regulatory; relations; resale; residential; rideout; routes; services; sharing; social; society; standards; state; structural; subordinate; subscribers; subsidies; system; telecom decision; telecommunication; telecommunication decision; telecommunication policy; telephone; terminal; theory; toronto; unitel; university; users; voice; volume; workers
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- ar-20299
- author: Robinson, David
- title: Taking "Freedom of the Press" Seriously: Critical Media Sociology and the Challenge of Democracy
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 9672
- flesch: 50
- summary: More recently, news media organizations have offered readers and spectators editorial 'talk-back' telephone lines, allowing audiences to register their views or complaints. Likewise, the ever increasing concentration of news media outlets raises real fears that a large number of public interests are not being served.
- keywords: access; advertisers; advertising; alternate; analysis; audience; autonomy; bourgeois; broadcasting; cambridge; canada; capitalist; citizens; claims; class; communication; competition; concentration; constraints; control; critical; culture; curran; debate; democracy; democratic; economic; economy; editorial; eds; elite; example; expression; financial; forces; freedom; garnham; government; groups; habermas; hall; ideas; ideological; imperatives; industry; information; institutional; interests; islamica; issues; john; journalists; keane; kind; large; liberal; liberal media; london; market; marketplace; marxist; mass; media; murdock; need; neo; news; news media; newspapers; non; number; open; opinions; order; organizations; ownership; people; periodica; peter; political; politics; possibility; power; practices; press; private; process; producers; production; professional; public; public sphere; quality; radical; readers; relations; research; researchers; robinson; routes; sage; schlesinger; self; shape; social; society; sociology; sparks; sphere; state; structural; studies; study; system; theories; theory; times; toronto; tuchman; university; views; volume; ways; work; world; york
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- ar-20300
- author: Behnia, Behnam
- title: Reflections of the Reproduction of Dictatorship in Iran: Communication and Dictatorship
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 9228
- flesch: 56
- summary: However, what these scholars of Iranian revolution have overlooked is the presence of a contradiction in Iranian political collective action. 91 Alternate Routes, Volume 10, 1993 Critical Review of the Analyses of the 1979 Iranian Revolution Scholars of Iranian revolution are divided on whether there were one or two revolutions.
- keywords: abrahamian; agencies; alternate; amir; arjomand; bazaar; bazaaris; bill; cambridge; class; clergy; collective; communication; conditions; corporate; coup; culture; democracy; democratic; dictatorial; dictatorship; distorted; dowreh; east; economic; eds; example; exit; favour; forces; formation; general; government; graham; groups; habermas; halliday; horizontal; impact; independent; instance; institutions; iran; iranian; iranian political; iranian revolution; islamic; journal; khomeini; left; life; london; means; members; middle; miller; mobilization; modernization; mossadeq; movements; national; new; number; o'donnell; oil; old; opposition; order; organizations; parsa; party; people; percent; perspective; police; political; politics; power; presence; press; princeton; processes; protest; public; rapid; regime; religious; repression; result; revolution; revolutionary; reza; rights; routes; savak; scholars; shah; social; socialization; society; speaker; state; system; theory; time; trust; universal; university; use; voice; volume; women; workers; world; york
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- ar-20301
- author: Chunn, Ian
- title: CANONS, PUBLISHERS, AND LITERARY NATIONALISM: TOWARD A SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 2782
- flesch: 52
- summary: Canon-formation is an intrinsically conservative process (Scobie, 1991 :57), and the tendency to resist change is greatest in national canons, as they function to define a national literature in turn tied to the sense of nationhood. While those who control the U.S. scene may seem small in number, in Canada it amounts to little more than university teachers of English who profess some degree of interest in Canadian literature.
- keywords: alternate; american; anthologies; bruns; canada; canadian; canonical; canons; century; chandler; chicago; chicago press; court; english; essays; formation; hallberg; herrnstein; history; lecker; literary; literature; mccarthy; national; nationalism; new; ohmann; poetry; political; press; process; publishing; routes; sense; smith; study; toronto; tradition; university; value; volume; von; work; writing
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- ar-20302
- author: Hubka, David
- title: Richard Collins, Culture, Communication and National Identity: The Case of Canadian Television
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 902
- flesch: 36
- summary: In overview, Collins' rejection of Canadian nationalism (or assumptions thereof) is the basis of his rejection of policy objectives to support cultural identity through a national broadcasting system. The few espousing the rhetoric of Canadian nationalism are merely those who stand in the way of the inevitable world of international competition (xvi, 28, 349).
- keywords: american; broadcasting; canada; canadian; collins; cultural; culture; economic; european; identity; industries; nationalist; new; policy; state; television; world
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- ar-20303
- author: Rideout, Vanda
- title: NEWSFORUM: Conference Report
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 769
- flesch: 43
- summary: As consumption for cultural products increases it should mean an increase for cultural creators but in Canada this will not happen without the state, cultural policies and cultural content. Atherton explained how newspapers work against the reporting of cultural policy because reporters who cover this area often have other priorities.
- keywords: book; broadcasting; canadian; carleton; communication; crtc; cultural; interest; new; newsforum; panel; policy; public; services; speakers; telecommunication; university
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- ar-20304
- author: Reimer, Joel
- title: Future Probabilities for a Somali Nation State: Development and Governance
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 9635
- flesch: 48
- summary: Clans form a lineage derived socio-economic organizational frame- work witliin Somali society, which is legitimated by Islamic religious belief and tradition Tlie notion of shared religious heritage and common history is Reimer/ Future Probabilities for a Somali Nation State encapsulated in the genealogies of the cornucopia of Somali clans and lineages (Casanelli, 1982: 129). The examination of Somali clan structure is followed by an analysis of the structure and function ofthe Somali state immediately after independence in 1960 and of the succeeding government in 1969 of Siad Barre.
- keywords: abdi; address; administration; affiliation; african; alternate; alternate routes; analysis; anthropology; assistance; barre; bourdieu; canada; canadian; carleton; chicago; clan; colin; collective; conduct; control; country; critical; cultural; current; davidson; department; development; differences; discursive; disintegration; dominant; domination; economic; economy; editorial; eds; era; examination; field; forces; foreign; form; foucault; funding; future; global; gordon; govemmentality; governance; government; graduate; groups; history; i.m; identity; imf; individual; institutions; interests; international; introduction; islam; issue; journal; laitin; large; left; level; lewis; lineage; local; london; major; management; members; miller; mohamed; mohamoud; nation; nation state; necessary; new; ofa; ofthe; order; organization; pan; papers; people; policy; political; politics; population; post; power; practice; present; press; price; probabilities; problems; process; profits; project; publication; reimer/; relations; religious; research; result; role; rose; routes; rules; samatar; schraeder; secunty; security; set; siad; siad barre; situation; social; society; sociology; somali; somali government; somali nation; somali state; somalism; specific; stakes; state; structure; studies; support; system; university; use; volume; wacquant; war; western; work; world
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- ar-20305
- author: Transken, Si
- title: Dwarfed Wolves Stealing Scraps From Our Masters' Tables: Women's Groups and the Funding Process
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 11538
- flesch: 57
- summary: If WEC women were designing these forms they would be much simpler, easier to understand, include more qualitative data, and would be designed with the assumption that we are trustworthy beings authentically doing everything we can to help other women with their messy and 'ordinary' day- to-day problems. If WEC women were designing the forms, we would assume that if last year a number ofwomen wanted to talk about incest, rape, violaice, poverty, unemployment, etc., there would also be women this year with the same concerns.
- keywords: account; activists; activities; agency; alternate; application; available; board; canada; canadian; charge; class; clients; community; consequences; cultural; day; development; different; documents; dollars; employment; ethnocultural; example; experience; facts; factual; feminist; financial; flinders; forms; funders; funding; funding process; funds; government; groups; immigrant; immigration; information; issues; knowledge; language; like; lives; masters; meetings; minority; mission; money; nations; needs; new; northern; officers; ofthe; ofwomen; ontario; organization; pamphlet; paper; participants; people; person; phone; potential; press; problems; process; processes; production; program; project; provincial; public; reading; reality; relevant; representatives; request; resources; ristock; routes; scraps; secretary; small; smith; social; society; sources; staff; state; statement; story; support; tables; time; toronto; transken/; transken/ women; united; university; visible; volume; volunteers; walker; way; ways; wec; wec women; white; wolves; women; work; working; world; year
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- ar-20306
- author: Huot, Francois
- title: Myths on the Left: The Narrative and Discursive Practices of the AFL-CIO News
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 9723
- flesch: 55
- summary: Negotiation with a 'good' capitalist Union wins an agreement Union takes action Negotiation with a 'bad' capitalist Union organizes a strike Legal action lobbying Society benefits from union action Figure 5: The narratives for union action Initiating legal action is one of the preferred tactical avenues used by Amencan trade-unions. On the other hand, the members represented in the photographs of the AFL-CIO News act as good union members, holding signs, protesting or picketing.
- keywords: 1990b; action; activities; activity; actors; afl; aflcio; agreement; alternate; amencan; american; analyse; analysis; article; bad; bargaining; barthes; basic; benefits; bythe; capitalists; cio; cio news; collective; communication; conditions; connection; contract; control; democratic; different; discursive; economic; effect; employers; everyday; evil; examination; existence; fact; faith; figure; foreign; general; good; huot; ideological; ideological practices; ideology; important; individual; industry; interpretation; issues; jobs; john; kind; labour; leaders; left; legal; life; local; main; management; meaning; meetings; members; movement; myths; narrative; nature; negotiation; newspaper; notion; number; officers; ofthe; ofthe afl; opposition; order; organization; organized; persons; photographs; place; political; politicians; possible; practices; president; press; process; public; question; reader; real; representation; right; roland; routes; second; series; set; social; society; stage; stated; stories; story; strike; structure; study; support; system; text; thompson; total; trade; union; union action; union leaders; union members; vice; victims; volume; vote; washington; way; wins; women; workers; world; years; york
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- ar-20307
- author: Hladki, Janice
- title: Problematizing the Issue of Cultural Appropriation
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 7777
- flesch: 48
- summary: I want and need to insert some lucidity and cogency to my wrestling with the issue of cultural appropriation as I also attempt to make space for continuous/contiguous questioning and an ongoing state of mulling and puzzlement. Myfocus is on cultural appropriation as it has been addressed inthepast three to four years in the context of Canadian cultural production.
- keywords: access; alternate; analysis; approach; appropriation; artists; attention; butler; canadian; censorship; change; colour; community; complex; concerns; conditions; context; critical; critique; cultural; cultural appropriation; culture; determination; dominant; eds; feminist; fixed; forms; foucault; freedom; fuse; gender; giroux; globe; group; hiadki/; hill; historical; imagination; important; issues; knowledge; native; new; non; notion; ofpower; ofthe; ongoing; oppressed; particular; peoples; philip; points; political; politics; popular; position; possibilities; possibility; power; practices; press; privilege; problematizing; producers; production; questions; racism; relations; representation; resistance; right; routes; rules; scott; self; sholle; social; society; space; spivak; studies; subject; support; todd; toronto; transformation; trinh; view; voice; volume; white; work; writing; york
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- ar-20308
- author: Skinner, David; Robinson, David
- title: Re-thinking Cultural Policy: Critical Approaches in the Era of Privatization
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 3315
- flesch: 43
- summary: Re-thinking Cultural Policy: Critical Approaches in the Era of Privatization David Skinner Simon Fraser University David C. Robinson^ Carleton University Long established practices of cultural policy are rapidly changing throughout the world. Where once cultural policies were developed to serve a broadly defined 'public interest,' todaywe are witnessing the introduction ofpolicies that are primarily geared to serve private accumulation.
- keywords: agencies; alternate; broadcasting; canada; canadian; capital; changes; communication; critical; cultural; cultural policy; culture; current; democratic; distribution; era; expression; field; forces; forms; gamham; information; institutions; interest; international; interventions; market; media; mosco; nationalism; need; new; ofthe; order; ownership; place; policies; policy; political; politics; power; practices; press; pressures; production; products; progressive; public; representation; research; resources; robinson; routes; sector; skinner; social; sovereignty; state; studies; support; transnational; volume
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- ar-20309
- author: Macdonald, J. Rachel
- title: Free Trade and Social Policy Reform: The Hidden Dimension?
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 4251
- flesch: 53
- summary: Finally, trade agreements bind the nation- state, both directly and indirectly, from pursuing social policies that may be mterpreted as restricting access to markets or as discouraging profit-making. Rec«it changes to the definition of poverty, cutbacks to Medicare, and proposals aimed at replaang Canada's social safety net with wage supple- mentprograms illustrate the degreeto which the ideological underpinnings of free trade have already dramatically altered social policy in Canada.
- keywords: advantage; agreements; alternate; benefits; canada; canadian; capital; care; competitive; corporate; corporations; cusfta; debate; development; drover; economic; economy; example; free; free trade; future; government; hand; harmonization; health; ideology; income; labour; liberal; macdonald; market; nafta; nation; national; neo; ofthe; people; policies; policy; political; poverty; power; programs; public; reform; routes; services; social; social policy; social programs; state; swanson; system; terms; trade; united; universal; universality; vision; volumel; wage; welfare; work
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- ar-20310
- author: Robinson, David
- title: Newsforum Colloquim: "Zadig's Method," the Historical Sciaices, Museums and the Performance of Progress
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 1037
- flesch: 32
- summary: Originally intoided to overcome the perceived impasse betweai 'culturalist' and 'struc- turalist' approadies in British cultural studies, the incorporation ofGramsci 's notion of 'hegemony'—a state ofmoral, cultural and political leadership that is actively won and not simply imposed upon subordinate social groups — offered the discipline a less mechanistic and monolithic view ofthe ideologi- cal domination of a ruling class or bloc. In British cultural studies, the turn to Gramsci signalled a profound shift in thinking.
- keywords: bennett; bloc; british; century; class; counter; cultural; culture; dominant; groups; h^emony; hegemony; history; ideological; museum; ofthe; political; practices; progress; studies; view; work; zadig
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- author: Abdollahyan, Hamid
- title: Capital Accumulation, Technology Transfer and the Peripheralization of Sharecropping Agriculture in Iran
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 8946
- flesch: 37
- summary: 2 'The majority ofthese studies deal with pre-capitalist agricultural production as a transitional stage in the history of socio-economic progress (described by Vali, 1980:37). Turner ( 1 984) has also studied pre-capitalist agricultural production in Iran.
- keywords: 1950s; abdollahayan/; absentee; accumulation; agricultural; agricultural production; alternate; alternate routes; assumption; bourgeoisie; capital accumulation; capitalist; capitalist development; capitalist mode; carleton; century; change; class; concentration; conditions; countries; critical; dependent; developed; development; different; dominance; e.g.; economic; economies; economy; fact; feminist; forces; formations; growth; historical; hooglund; international; iran; iranian; jenkins; labour; labourer; lack; land; landlords; literature; looney; low; marxist; merchant; mode; najmabadi; nakhaie; necessity; new; ofthe; order; outflow; papers; peasants; penetration; period; peripherilization; position; post; power; pre; press; process; processes; production; production process; productivity; progress; reform; relations; result; routes; rural; rural economy; rural iran; sharecropping; social; socio; sociology; state; structural; studies; surplus; system; theoretical; time; todaro; traditional; transformation; transitory; turner; underdevelopment; university; urban; use; vali; volume12; war; water; words; work; world; york
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- ar-20313
- author: Defresne, Todd
- title: Anthropology and the Invention of Deconstruction: A Brief Survey
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 6432
- flesch: 51
- summary: It is not, of course, that Derrida is the signified truth of deconstruction. In what follows, I will underscore and briefly survey some of the places where deconstruction is directly or indirectly addressed by anthropologists, with particular emphasis on the invention of culture literature; critically evalu- ate this work, noting how and where I think it succeeds and/or fails; indicate where a better appreciation of Derrida's work can help resolve some hesitations about the deconstruction of culture; and finally, delimit the Alternate Routes, Volume 12, 1995 Alternate Routes, Volume 1 2, 1995 politics of disciplinarity and what I am calling the anthropological invention of deconstruction.
- keywords: affirmative; alternate; american; analysis; analytic; anthropologists; anthropology; article; authenticity; chicago; clifford; cultural; culture; deconstruction; dernda; derrida; differance; discourse; double; dufresne; end; erasure; extent; fabian; handler; hanson; invention; jacques; language; law; levine; linnekin; literature; little; maori; marcus; metaphysical; mitchell; negative; nervous; new; ofthe; original; outside; perspective; phase; place; point; political; politics; position; postmodern; power; press; project; rabinow; reality; representation; responsibility; routes; self; social; society; subject; system; taussig; text; theoretical; thinking; trans; truth; turn; tyler; university; wagner; way; work; world; writing; york
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- ar-20314
- author: Deisnan, Wade
- title: Ontological Gerrymandering? Non-Identity vs. Differance Adorno Contra Derrida
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 4999
- flesch: 42
- summary: The first phase of my argument is explicative and consists chiefly in an overview of Adorno and Derrida at the level of method. Finally, both are substantially influenced by Husserl in the critical development of thinking about the contradictions implied by the western philosophical project, hi Derrida's case, however, the grounds for arriving at the claim for contradiction are substantially different from those arrived at by Adorno.
- keywords: adomo; adorno; alternate; analysis; approach; attempt; buck; categories; claims; clear; communicative; concept; conceptual; contemporary; contradiction; critical; critique; deconstruction; derrida; dews; dialectics; differance; fact; forms; historical; husserl; idealism; identity; jameson; language; level; logic; meaning; method; morris; movement; nature; negative; non; ofthe; order; phenomena; philosophical; philosophy; press; principle; process; reading; reality; reason; relationship; routes; second; social; speech; subject; tendencies; text; theory; thinkers; thought; totalizing; volume12; work; writing
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- ar-20315
- author: Browning, Catherine
- title: Silence on Same-Sex Partner Abuse
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 3584
- flesch: 53
- summary: Among these speculations, lesbians may have particular concerns for their community's external and internal image, resist challenges to their notion ofa 'lesbian Utopia' and their gendered analyses of partner abuse, and may be uncertain how to act on the problem of lesbian partner abuse. Concern for the external solidarity ofthe community, for example, may particularly silence abused lesbians. My research project will contribute evidence on how traditions of silence on lesbian partner abuse are uniquely shaped, and broaden the existing indi- vidual-social paradigm of same-sex partner abuse to include the level of lesbian communities.
- keywords: abuse; advocacy; alternate; analysis; area; battered; battering; centre; chicago; communities; community; domestic; fear; gay; groups; hand; heterosexual; individual; interview; isolation; kerry; lesbian; lesbian partner; level; lin; literature; lobel; london; ofthe; partner; partner abuse; press; project; relationships; renzetti; research; routes; seal; seattle; service; silence; social; support; therapy; variables; violence; women
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- ar-20316
- author: Enns, Diane
- title: The Body Deferred: Reconsidering Feminist Approaches to Embodiment
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 3093
- flesch: 47
- summary: In this paper I <E) Alternate Routes, Volume12, 1995 problematize the claim Grosz makes that this retheorizing ofthe body moves it away from an uncritical association with nature and otherness, and an opposition to mind and self (1991:2). I argue that many of these new articulations of an embodied subject continue to bump up against articula- tions of the Body, and by association, the Referent, the Real, the Signified and Nature.
- keywords: alternate; bodies; bodily; body; braidotti; butler; consciousness; difference; discursive; distinction; essentialism; female; feminist; flesh; gender; grosz; ground; identity; kirby; meaning; new; notion; ofthe; ofwoman; political; politics; position; real; reality; reasons; representation; routes; self; sex; social; states; subject; subjectivity; surface; term; women; york
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- ar-20317
- author: Mason, Dominique
- title: Reintroducing Politics: Recent Developments in Feminist Theories of the State
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 3336
- flesch: 54
- summary: It would be a mistake, however, to see this encounter as being solely with the state, or with state actors: it is an encounter within the arenas ofthe state with other political actors that articulate other sets of interests and carry with them particular <2) <5> Alternate Routes, Volume 12, 1995 assumptions about gender relations (and race, and class). My research draws on recent developments in feminist theories of the state to underscore the necessity to ' reintroduce politics ' in feminist analyses of the interrelation between gender, women's movements, and states.
- keywords: actors; agency; agents; alternate; box; capitalist; change; classical; concrete; connell; court; developments; domination; feminist; franzway; gender; gendered; interests; movement; new; notion; ofpower; ofthe; particular; patriarchal; policies; political; politics; power; press; recent; relations; routes; short; skocpol; social; socialist; specific; state; structures; systems; terms; theories; theory; university; watson; welfare; women
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- ar-20318
- author: Blair, Derek
- title: Book Review: Taking Our Informants Seriously
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 3902
- flesch: 47
- summary: On the other hand, when the anthropologist is subjected to such extraordinary experiences, he/ she often ends up disregarding it as inappropriate data. First, it provides accounts ofanthropologists who havehad extraordinary experiences, or have chosen to seriously consider extraordinary accounts experienced by their informants.
- keywords: account; alternate; anthropologists; anthropology; approach; book; castaneda; circumstances; comment; cross; cultural; culture; dene; disbelief; dreams; epistemological; essay; ethnographic; experience; extraordinary; fact; fieldwork; fire; goulet; guedon; informants; issues; laughlin; life; non; ofthe; personal; press; question; reality; reincarnation; result; routes; scientific; section; tha; turner; understanding; visions; way; ways; western; wilkie; world; young
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- ar-20319
- author: Hamilton, Sheryl
- title: Creative and Cultural Expression but not Art: Multiculturalism Arts Funding as Cultural Management
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 6723
- flesch: 39
- summary: To do this, I read the symbolic order in a second way, as social discourse, and suggest that it is to the level ofdiscourse that one must look to understand the function, role, and meanings of multiculturahsm arts policy. I argue that situated as it is at the intersection ofdiscourses ^^ of arts policy and of multiculturahsm that the CCE Program in fact constitutes a means by which cultural pluralism is fixed, identified, counted, and used to simultaneously demonstrate the need for, and success o£ multiculturahsm policy.
- keywords: act; alternate; alternate routes; analysis; artistic; artists; arts; arts funding; arts policy; assumptions; breton; canada; canadian; canadian cultural; canadian state; cce; citizenship; collective; community; country; creative; cultural; cultural expression; cultural identity; culture; defence; department; development; discourse; discursive; diverse; diversity; ethnicity; example; expression; fact; fleras; foster; function; funding; government; group; hamilton; handler; heritage; identity; individual; intervention; journal; management; mclellan; minister; multiculturalism; multiculturalism arts; mythic; narratives; nation; need; objectification; objectives; ofthe; order; ottawa; papers; plurality; policy; process; production; program; projects; research; richmond; role; routes; second; services; social; society; sovereignty; state; supply; support; symbolic; volume; work
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- ar-20321
- author: Mason, Dominique
- title: Language, Power, and Politics: Revisiting the Symbolic Challenge of Movements
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 10325
- flesch: 48
- summary: 'Neo' resource mobilizationists, New Social Movement (NSM) theorists and political scientists all converge now to give greater weight to movements' subjective construc- tions in theorizing social movement activity. More importantly maybe, Laclau and Mouffe' s claim about the contingency of symbolic constructions should be taken on board by social movement studies.
- keywords: action; activity; actors; alternate; alvarez; analysis; arturo; attempts; bourdieu; certain; challenge; change; character; closure; codes; collective; complex; consequences; constructions; contemporary; critical; cultural; different; dimension; discourse; discursive; eds; escobar; example; existence; fairclough; feminist; field; forms; foucault; fowler; frames; frameworks; framing; groups; identities; identity; ideology; important; institutional; interests; issues; jenson; johnston; laclau; language; latin; level; life; limits; linguistic; london; making; masson/; meanings; melucci; mobilization; mode; mouffe; movements; new; new social; notion; object; ofmovement; ofpower; ofsocial; ofthe; order; organizations; particular; people; perspective; political; politics; positions; possible; power; practices; press; processes; production; projects; reality; relations; resource; role; routes; scholars; sense; sets; significations; signs; sites; social; social meanings; social movements; social reality; social relations; society; specific; speech; state; strategic; strategy; structure; struggles; subjects; symbolic; tarrow; terms; theory; things; understanding; university; use; volume; ways; women; world
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- ar-20322
- author: Wolfman, Oscar
- title: Homophobia in/as Education
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 4994
- flesch: 48
- summary: The high school level was selected for this study because high school students are at the ages ofpuberty and dating—ages where sex and sexuality dominate their attention— and because the 1992 study by Masters, Johnson, and Kolodny reported that the most frequent attackers in lesbigay-bashing are adolescent males, attributing this violence to a rite of masculinity (Elia, 1993:178). As the ideology ofthis society is white and European, so too is that which is defined as appropriate gender behaviour Wolfman/Homophobia in/as education (Monteiro and Fuqua, 1995: 163), 2 which further complicates what and who is erased or constructed in sexual education.
- keywords: alternate; areas; bisexual; board; canada; canadian; closet; community; curriculum; discourses; education; experiences; foucault; gay; gender; groups; health; heterosexual; high; history; homophobia; homosexuality; homosexuals; identities; institutions; issues; journal; knowledge; lesbian; lesbigay; ministry; new; normalization; obe; official; ofthe; ome; ontario; orientation; ottawa; policies; policy; power; practices; prentice; queer; recent; research; resistance; respondents; routes; school; selves; sexual; sexuality; silenced; social; society; students; studies; study; susan; teachers; theory; toronto; university; violence; volume; warner; wolfman; work; york; youth
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- ar-20323
- author: Hermer, Joseph
- title: The Smokey Bear Performance Rules
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 2310
- flesch: 56
- summary: Every summer Smokey Bear costumes are dispatched in crates across North America to parks to be animated in visitor service and nature interpretation programs. These Smokey Bear rules which park staff are expected to follow when suited up in the Smokey costume, nicely illustrate the important distinction made by H.L.A. Hart between primary and secondary rules, between rules that order regulatory objects, and rules that regulate the agents of regulation (Hart, 1961).
- keywords: 1994:2; alternate; america; assistant; bear; campaign; character; costume; fire; forest; governance; hermer; human; hunt; image; look; maryland; mnr; moral; nature; north; ofpark; ofthe; order; park; performance; prevention; public; pyne; regulated; regulation; risk; routes; rules; secondary; self; service; smokey; sociology; texts; volume; wearer; wilderness
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- ar-20324
- author: Drouillard, Lisa
- title: Miami's Little Havana: A Nation in Exile
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 6646
- flesch: 46
- summary: Above and be- yond the aspirations of many Miami Cubans for the establish- ment of their sovereign control over their homeland, members of the community have created, as much as maintained, the po- litical, cultural and economic status of a nation in exile, await- ing not for the chance to rebuild Cuba, but to replace it. The Miami Cubans have truly suc- ceeded in creating a nation in exile engaged not merely in inter-ethnic conflicts, but in nationalist confrontations with world leaders.
- keywords: alternate; american; analysis; anderson; anti; balakrishnan; bay; building; case; castro; city; collective; communities; community; contemporary; country; critical; cuban; cuban american; cuban community; cuban enclave; cuban exile; cuban studies; cultural; decade; department; development; discourse; distance; early; economic; editorial; emigres; enclave; establishment; ethnic; evident; exile; exile community; experience; florida; forment; global; government; group; havana; history; identity; immigrants; initiatives; institutions; international; invasion; journal; language; little; long; mas; members; miami; miami cubans; migration; military; movements; national; nationalist; new; papers; pigs; place; policy; political; politics; population; power; powerful; program; projects; research; residents; return; rieff; routes; sacrifice; sense; significant; social; space; states; stepick; struggles; studies; study; system; u.s; understanding; united; university; welcome; work
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- ar-20325
- author: Bennett, Nicole
- title: Global Village Chic: "Multicultural Fashion" and the Commodification of Pluralism
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 7376
- flesch: 45
- summary: In representing non-western cultures as existing in the past, and in reducing their cultural products to signifiers of exoti- cism, western designers are in fact dehistoricising and decontexualizing the communities whose products have inspired the various elements of different ethnic fashion collections. Clearly, the in- fluence of ethnic fashion is limited by its structural location within the larger systems of meaning-making which serve to £$% produce and reproduce our cultural understandings of ethnic and cultural differences.
- keywords: 1990s; appeals; beat; bhabha; blending; canadian; celebration; chic; collection; commodification; commodified; communities; consumers; contemporary; cultural; cultural products; cultures; debates; designers; difference; discourses; diversity; dress; eastern; elements; ethnic; ethnic fashion; ethnicity; ethno; example; exoticism; fact; fashion; flare; forms; gaultier; global; global village; groups; hasidic; hooks; images; individuals; industry; influences; liberal; like; multicultural; multicultural fashion; music; new; non; norm; number; outfits; ozbek; particular; patterns; pluralism; plurality; politics; present; products; punk; racial; recent; states; styles; term; tolerance; trend; turn; understanding; use; village; vogue; way; ways; western; women; work; world
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- ar-20326
- author: Whelan, Emma
- title: Staging and Profiling: The Constitution of the Endometriotic Subject in Gynecological Discourse
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 7189
- flesch: 41
- summary: The questions which I begin to address here are: How have endometriosis patients been defined through the use of the 4fk R-AFS classification and the typical patient profile? How do definitions of endometriosis patients constructed via these two codifications compare with the ways in which endometriosis patients are de- fined within patient movements?
- keywords: afs; afs classification; american; analysis; association; attempts; buttram; ccce; claims; classification; clinical; codifications; concerns; conference; consensus; cramer; current; demographic; diagnosis; different; discussion; disease; endometriosis; endometriosis patient; experts; fertility; focus; form; foucault; groups; gynecological; gynecologists; gynecology; health; immutable; individual; journal; knowledge; latour; likely; medical; minimal; new; obstetricians; obstetrics; pain; paper; patient; patient groups; patient profile; pauerstein; pelvic; points; populations; professional; profile; psychological; research; researchers; risk; severity; society; stage; staging; sterility; subject; surgery; surgical; symptoms; system; treatment; typical; typical patient; use; ways; women; york
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- ar-20327
- author: Shantz, Jeff
- title: Listen Anarchist!: Murray Bookchin's Defence of Orthodoxy
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 2283
- flesch: 42
- summary: Additionally, Bookchin's claim that, during the heyday of social anarchism, individualists exercised hardly any influence, is undermined if one considers only the case of Emma Goldman who Bookchin himself identifies as an extreme individualist, a Nietzschean (8). It is precisely the novelty of contemporary anarchism which has prompted the writing of Bookchin's text.
- keywords: analysis; anarchism; anarchy; autonomous; bey; bookchin; brown; century; commitment; contemporary; essay; estate; fifth; hakim; history; individualist; industrial; institutions; left; lifestyle; lifestylists; little; main; movements; personal; point; political; politics; radical; regular; review; social; socialist; society; spectre; susan; theoretical; transformation; works
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- ar-20328
- author: Sorge, Antonio
- title: Nationalism by Ernest Gellner
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 2323
- flesch: 46
- summary: The only thing essentially distinguishing the Is- lamic world's nationalism (by the use of the term nationalism in this context, Gellner presumably means Islamic fundamen- talism) from European nationalism is the lack of severance be- tween faith and culture. The understanding that nationalism is a modern phenomenon which is not present in the two previous stages is contextualised within Gellner's conjectural (though reasoned) history of humankind, as presented in his Plough, Sword, and Book: The Structure ofHuman History (1988).
- keywords: book; central; complex; cultural; culture; emergence; ernest; ethnic; europe; gellner; great; high; historical; history; human; industrial; islamic; modern; modernity; morality; nationalism; nations; normative; order; phenomenon; political; present; social; soviet; stages; state; time; type; world; zones
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- ar-20329
- author: Powell, Christopher
- title: Crisis of Co-Optation: Human Rights Social Movements and Global Politics
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 10989
- flesch: 48
- summary: I propose a few conclusions regarding the utility of the 'global civil society hypothesis' and TSMO Volume 15, 1999 23 Alternate Routes theory generally: These analyses tell us much about the evolving organi- zational and political dynamics of human rights social movements and convey justified optimism regarding the continued political importance of TSMO actors in human rights politics. Therefore, following on these definitions, this paper investigates the impacts on human rights movements of specifically transnational politi- cal processes.
- keywords: activists; actors; alternate; american; analysis; arena; argentina; authority; basic; boundaries; brysk; capitalism; case; change; chemin; civil; civil society; class; commitment; community; contemporary; counter; crisis; danger; democracy; department; development; discourse; domestic; economic; editorial; emergence; example; focus; force; formal; freedom; generation; global; global civil; global politics; gramsci; hegemonic; hegemony; human; human rights; hypothesis; igos; impacts; importance; individuals; interests; intergovernmental; international; international relations; issue; journal; liberal; like; limits; local; massacre; mechanisms; military; movement organizations; movements; nature; networks; new; ngos; non; norms; opportunity; order; organizations; outside; pagnucco; papers; policy; political; politics; power; powerful; practice; press; processes; public; question; relations; research; rights; rights movements; role; routes; second; service; set; sikkink; smith; social; social movements; society; sovereignty; space; state; state actors; state power; state system; strategies; strategy; structures; struggle; studies; success; support; system; terms; theory; time; transnational; transnational social; tsmos; united; university; use; volume; walker; war; world; york
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- ar-20330
- author: Balfour, Gillian
- title: From Advocates to Experts: Feminist Therapy with Women in Prison
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 7583
- flesch: 55
- summary: This changed, however, in 1988, when prisoner Mar- lene Moore hung herself in the infirmary of Kingston's Prison for Women (at the time the only federal penitentiary in Canada for women serving sentences of greater than two years). Women organized informal networks of shel- ters and safe houses for women in crisis and their children.
- keywords: aboriginal; abuse; addiction; alternative; analysis; anne; approach; balfour; behavior; canada; chemin; child; childhood; comack; community; conflict; control; correctional; counseling; counselors; experiences; feminist; feminist therapy; fraud; groups; groupwork; health; ibid; important; imprisonment; interviews; karen; law; leslie; life; lives; means; mental; model; needs; new; ottawa; physical; poverty; power; press; principles; prison; prisoners; problems; racism; routes; self; services; sexual; social; strategies; study; support; survivors; therapeutic; therapists; therapy; time; traditional; understanding; victimization; violence; volume; women; work
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- ar-20331
- author: Sinclair, Roberta Lynn
- title: Hegemonic Masculinity, Male Peer Support and Sexual Aggression: Future Research Directions
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 8410
- flesch: 61
- summary: Sexual assault is multidimensional in nature: the victims of sexual assault include people who are married, single, widowed, and dating (e.g., Allison and Wrightsman, 1993; Stets and Straus, 1989); defini- tions of sexually coercive acts are broad ranging (e.g., DeKeseredy and Hinch, 1991; Schwartz, 1997); the effects of sexual assault (Arata and Burkhart, 1996; Koss, 1985) vary as much as the characteristics of the perpetrators (e.g., Malamuth and Dean, 1991; Rapaport and Posey, 1991). As sexual coercion researchers interested in the dynamics of male youth and sexual assault, the research agenda is twofold: i) to determine the extent of ado- lescents victimized by male sexual aggression, and ii) theoretical devel- opments must be made in order to better reflect adolescent experience with sexual aggression.
- keywords: abuse; abusive; activities; adolescents; aggression; alternative; assault; behaviour; beliefs; campus; canadian; chemin; college; crime; dating; dekeseredy; development; example; experience; familial; findings; focus; following; form; fraternity; future; gender; groups; hegemonic; hegemonic masculinity; heterosexuality; high; ideals; ideology; kanin; koss; male; male peer; masculinities; masculinity; membership; model; national; need; new; paper; peer; peer support; pro; rape; rates; relationships; research; researchers; role; routes; sanday; school; schwartz; sexual; sexual aggression; sexual assault; social; society; students; studies; study; support; surveys; theoretical; theory; time; totten; university; victims; violence; volume; women; york; young; youth
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- ar-20332
- author: Dell, Colleen Anne
- title: The 'Premeditated' Creation of the 'Violent' Female Offender In Canada
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 10218
- flesch: 52
- summary: Though limited counter-research exists in the area, a 1989 study of fed- erally sentenced women in Canada, as part of the Federally Sentenced Women Initiative, concluded a 'type' of violent crime committed by women and a 'type' of female violent offender does not exist (Sugar and Fox. 1990). For example, normative sexuality ...helps to legitimate the ideology that women are dependent on men for their sexual and economic well-being, denigrates women's relationships with other women, and subjects them to continued domination by men (Messerschmidt, 1986:34).
- keywords: 1995; 1998; abuse; adler; alternative; attention; autonomy; battered; canada; canadian; capitalist; capitalist patriarchy; character; characteristics; chemin; class; conduct; control; crime; criminal; criminology; division; eds; emancipation; empirical; evil; example; explanations; faith; female; female offender; feminist; focus; form; gender; helpless; identification; identity; ideological; individual; institution; interest; journal; justice; labour; literature; lloyd; london; masculine; material; means; media; messerschmidt; new; offender; opportunity; oppressive; ottawa; paper; patriarchy; physical; position; power; powerful; powerless; press; prison; production; public; relations; research; review; role; routes; sexual; shaw; similar; social; socialist; society; state; statistics; structure; studies; study; support; system; theoretical; theories; theory; threat; toronto; understanding; unified; university; unnatural; victim; violence; violent; violent crime; volume; women; work; york
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- ar-20333
- author: Shantz, Jeff
- title: Hakim Bey's Millenium
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 2449
- flesch: 50
- summary: Bey covers a broad sweep of issues ranging from the publicity surrounding his earlier publi- cations and the place of political radicalism in media circles, to his pre- occupation with the revolutionary potential of everyday life (7). In the years since the publication of T.A.Z., Bey's work proved both immensely influential and controver- sial.
- keywords: alternative; anarchist; anarchy; anti; autonomy; bey; capital; capitalism; chemin; desire; difference; end; ezln; federation; hegemonism; inspiration; left; millenium; money; nationalism; new; non; opposition; political; politics; potential; presence; radicalism; religion; resistance; revolutionary; self; spirituality; theory; volume; way; work; world
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- ar-20334
- author: Johnston, Rory
- title: Sexual and Ethnic Scripts in the Context of African American Culture
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 1733
- flesch: 44
- summary: This can lead to a perception that black gay males are conforming to 'white culture' and simultaneously abandoning their 'Black roots.' This discussion focused on two segre- gated categories: gay males and Black males.
- keywords: african; afrocentric; alternate; american; behaviour; black; context; culture; editorial; ethnic; gay; graduate; heterosexual; homosexual; homosexuality; issues; males; men; new; orientation; papers; relationship; research; routes; script; sexual; social; societal; society; students; university; volume; wallace; white
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- ar-20335
- author: Patterson, Mike
- title: Where the Forest Meets the Highway
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 11499
- flesch: 64
- summary: Hi S c o o c z a Vb/M/ue /6, 2000 31 Alternate Rentes c -- £-= 3 U S -S 5. *~ E -5 2 ,o , o c x: r . 73 o o ~ o u g *2 c 00 XT' rt — n o s is c
- keywords: actors; alternate; american; big; business; c o; c u; camp; canada; canadian; change; chemins; chicago; children; circle; citizen; collection; communications; communities; computer; control; country; critical; cultural; culture; cyberspace; data; denzin; description; digital; e o; economy; face; family; fire; forest; forms; foucault; free; future; giddens; global; globalization; going; good; groups; hand; highway; history; indian; information; internet; inuit; iroquoian; kids; kind; kirby; knowledge; lake; land; language; latour; life; like; long; making; media; methods; mills; modernity; music; nations; native; natural; nature; near; net; new; non; north; o o; o u; old; ottawa; past; people; perspective; phenomena; phone; place; population; possible; post; power; powwow; present; press; process; qualitative; reader; reality; research; road; room; routes; satellite; school; self; set; social; society; sociological; sociology; space; status; strauss; subject; system; technology; terms; theory; things; time; today; toronto; traditions; true; u u; university; use; volume; ways; web; work; world; years; york; youth
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- ar-20336
- author: Seibert, Anita
- title: From Matka Polka to New Polish Woman
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 6438
- flesch: 62
- summary: It is believed that the discussion of the models of womanhood existing in contemporary Poland will bring the reader closer to an understanding of the specific cultural environment in which contemporary Polish women negotiate their identity, while at the same time avoiding some of the dif- ficulties encountered by Western academics studying Polish women. Alh unite Routes Work In Progress From Matka Polka to New Polish Woman Anita Seibert Introduction This article aims to provide a brief analysis of the main issues related to the socio-cultural status of Polish women, both prior to and after 198°.
- keywords: 1995; alternate; analysis; article; caine; catholic; changes; chemins; children; church; communist; contemporary; different; domestic; eastern; economic; eds; employment; equality; europe; fact; family; feminist; filozofii; gender; government; home; identity; image; instytut; issues; kobieta; labour; life; lives; magazines; main; marriage; married; matka; matka polka; models; mother; nauk; new; numerous; panstwowa; poland; polish; polish women; political; polka; polsce; position; power; research; review; role; routes; services; sexual; social; society; socjologii; soviet; state; studies; time; titkow; traditional; values; volume; warszawa; western; womanhood; women; work; znaczy
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- ar-20337
- author: Robinson, Phil
- title: Resisting Subjection, Subjected Resistance: Sadomasochism, Feminism, Moral Regulation and Self-Formation
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 9715
- flesch: 52
- summary: The stance taken by Hopkins is premised on his acceptance of the radically honest, demo- cratic model of consent developed within SM communities (1994: 127). For all intensive purposes, SM communities can be charac- terized by voluntary associations with others who share similar interests in sadomasochistic sexual consumption.
- keywords: acts; alternate; alto; alyson; analysis; anti; approach; argument; boston; butler; c.a; chemins; claim; communities; community; consent; context; control; culture; desire; eds; emancipatory; emphasis; experience; feminist; formation; foucault; free; freedom; frog; gay; identities; identity; important; individual; instance; lesbian; liberation; life; linden; literature; means; moral; movements; nature; need; new; oppression; palo; patriarchal; people; personal; point; political; politics; position; potential; power; practice; practitioners; pro; process; public; publications; radical; radical feminist; reason; regulation; relationships; resistance; rights; routes; rubin; sadomasochism; san; self; sexual; sexuality; sm communities; smers; social; society; structural; technologies; term; thompson; true; truth; values; view; violence; volume; women
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- ar-20338
- author: Di Luzio, Linda
- title: Taking A Stand: A Review of Nancy E. Dowd's In Defense of Single-Parent Families.
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 1378
- flesch: 44
- summary: Hence, for the sake of the children, future genera- tions, and all of humanity, the author pleads with us to recognize single- parent families as families of worth and value and demonstrate not only that stigma has no basis and only does harm, but also that single- parent families have unique characteristics, positive attributes which can contribute to all families (102). Moreover, given that the overwhelming majority of single parents are 'mothers', women have inevitably become the targets of blame for the emergence of such social ills.
- keywords: author; book; defense; dowd; families; family; form; law; legal; lone; parent; result; single; singleparent; social; support; volume; welfare; work
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- ar-20339
- author: Shantz, Jeff
- title: Wally Seccombe and D.W. Livingstone. "Down to Earth People": Beyond Class Reductionism and Postmodernism.
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 1718
- flesch: 46
- summary: Presented are their views on class consciousness, racial and ethnic consciousness, gender conscious- ness and generational perspectives. Jeffrey Shantz Recently there has been much discussion and often acrimonious debate regarding the persistence of class, either as analytical category or as basis for identity, in the social transformations marking the contempo- rary era of 'postmodernity.'
- keywords: analysis; authors; book; capital; chapter; class; consciousness; earth; families; flexibility; hamilton; identity; important; interviews; livingstone; ontario; people; perspectives; production; reductionism; research; respondents; seccombe; social; theory; views; volume; workers; working
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- ar-20340
- author: Patterson, Mike
- title: Millenialism and Y2k
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 9134
- flesch: 68
- summary: As reported in a local paper, front page: At a Chamber of Commerce meeting, people were told that Y2K failures could start with the beginning of 26 Volume 17, 2001 Chemins Alternatifs the new fiscal year in Canada, Japan and New York State on Apr. 1, followed by the new year in the remaining 49 U.S. states starting July 1 (requiring systems to make fiscal projections into 2000). Y2K failures could start this April' in the ****** Advance, Feb. 3: 1).
- keywords: adler; albas; alternate; alternatifs; baudrillard; big; bug; canada; carleton; cash; chemins; citizen; collection; common; computer; control; culture; data; day; devil; different; disaster; don; editorial; end; environment; events; experience; field; gane; giddens; global; good; government; hertz; home; house; huge; ice; impact; information; internet; issues; journal; kitzo; like; live; local; meaning; media; mike; millennium; mitchell; money; nature; new; ofthe; ottawa; paper; people; personal; perspectives; pizza; place; power; previous; problem; project; ready; real; research; responses; routes; rural; self; sense; shop; shows; situation; slices; social; sociology; space; stories; storm; study; systems; talk; taz; technological; technology; theory; things; thought; time; u.s; university; urban; voice; volume; way; woman; work; world; y2k; year; zeke
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- ar-20341
- author: Nalaskowski, Lukasz
- title: Why Communism Lacked "Information Flow": A Theoretical Analysis
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 4575
- flesch: 47
- summary: However, there is a significant difference between democratic and undemocratic regimes with regard to information flow and with respect to how power- holders are kept informed. Then, employing Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems, I approach the problem of information flow in a communist regime, starting with the description of the communist system and the role of the Party.
- keywords: alternate; alternatifs; analysis; besancon; case; central; channels; chemins; circulation; civil; civil society; code; communication; communist; communist system; democratic; different; economic; economy; flow; formal; free; groups; inclusion; information; information flow; institutions; interests; lipinski; luhmann; main; market; means; money; open; organizations; party; poland; political; power; press; private; public; regime; role; routes; rulers; sector; set; social; society; sphere; state; structure; system; theory; volume; wnuk; zybertowicz
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- ar-20342
- author: Vachon, Al
- title: Horkheimer and Adorno go to Japan
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 4475
- flesch: 59
- summary: It was a powerful image of nature and land, torn apart and reassembled as consumer goods, mecha- nised-electronic products, consumed and disposed of, to be reconstituted as new industrial nature, building on the cities that spawned them. It is as unsatisfying and alienating as it is deadening, leaving the consumer empty and craving for more consumption in the hope of fulfillment, enmeshing them in a neverending maze that dissipates any resistance which they might have been capable of.
- keywords: adorno; advanced; alternate; appliances; belonging; bordieu; ceremony; chemins; class; communal; conspicuous; consumer; consumption; corporate; cultural; culture; debord; dissent; economic; electronic; garbage; global; goods; greater; hand; home; horkheimer; identity; image; industrial; industry; information; japan; japanese; job; land; life; like; mass; nature; need; new; people; possible; post; production; products; real; routes; self; social; society; space; technological; time; today; tokyo; veblen; volume; waste; waterfront; way; work; world; worth; year
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- ar-20343
- author: Yacoubian, George; Urbach, Blacke
- title: Disproportional Involvement in the Use of Crack and Powder Cocaine:Findings from the ArresteeDrug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) Program
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 5287
- flesch: 63
- summary: Program George S. Yacoubian, Jr Blake J. Urbaclr Abstract Inspired by the crack cocaine epidemic of the mid-1980s, the United States Congress passed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, legislation that provided harsh new penalties for violations involving crack cocaine. This is a curious distinction given the similarities between crack cocaine and cocaine hydrochloride, the powder form of the drug from which crack is derived.
- keywords: abuse; adam; alternate; american; analysis; arrestees; chemins; cocaine; cocaine use; counterparts; crack; crack cocaine; crime; criminal; current; data; drug; drug use; federal; female; findings; gender; health; inciardi; issues; journal; justice; law; logistic; lowney; married; national; new; non; offenders; offenses; penalties; powder; powder cocaine; program; race; recent; regression; relationship; research; routes; sample; second; self; sentencing; states; study; table; treatment; united; use; variables; volume; white; women; yacoubian; york
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- ar-20344
- author: Shantz, Jeff
- title: A Structured Anarchism by John Griffin
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 1171
- flesch: 45
- summary: Griffin's analysis of the market and money as aspects of unconscious drives and authoritarian compulsions, rather than as outcomes of real practices of accumulation and competitive social relations is neither con- vincing nor particularly insightful in terms of helping us to overcome those relations. (One story I've heard tells of the anarchists of the Munich Soviet of 1919 chasing Weber out of town before he could give a speech.) Unfortunately, rather than exploring the engagement between anar- chists and sociologists and the debates between them (which along with anarchist theory have been written out of sociological history), Griffin wastes this chapter on a rather unconvincing criticism of Marx's analysis of class.
- keywords: analysis; anarchists; attention; authoritarian; capitalism; class; collectivist; discussion; economics; griffin; money; organization; place; psychology; relations; social; sociological; sociology; theory; volume; work
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- ar-20346
- author: Provost, Terry
- title: Bodying Black Goddesses:The Duty of Representation Across Time and Cultures
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 9257
- flesch: 64
- summary: White definitions of Black bodies and of Black ways of being—i.e., oversexed, diseased, subhuman, inferior— continue to be mass-pro- duced in images and re-internalised in popular culture. Certain contemporary portrayals of Black female deities which visually magnify the naked body conjure images of Black women from the Trans-Atlantic period.
- keywords: abolitionist; aesthetics; african; allegory; alterity; alternate; alternatifs; april; art; artist; atlantic; baartman; birth; black; black female; black women; blackness; bodies; bodily; body; book; botticelli; breasts; british; canadian; centuries; century; certain; chemins; colonial; colonies; contemporary; context; corporeal; critical; criticism; cultural; culture; d'avignon; d-7; dark; demoiselles; different; disease; duty; english; europe; european; experiences; fanon; female; female body; figure; focus; gallery; gaze; gender; genitalia; goddess; goddesses; harris; historical; history; ideologies; images; imaginary; individuals; lady; large; left; les; life; like; lives; london; making; media; modern; montreal; mother; naked; nakedness; new; nineteenth; nude; ofthe; oxford; paintings; panel; paris; past; people; person; picasso; political; power; privilege; race; racial; racialised; realities; reality; representation; represented; rosenberg; routes; routledge; rpt; rubin; sable; self; sexual; skin; slavery; slaves; social; society; stereotypes; syphilis; thorsen; time; trans; triptych; vancouver; venus; visual; volume; ways; western; white; william; women; woolnough; work; york
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- ar-20347
- author: Gwillian, Janet E.
- title: Dangerous Customs: Censorship in Risk Society
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 10097
- flesch: 55
- summary: Thus, in the name of 'efficiency', general crime deterrence is replaced with risk management. Security, surveillance, and risk management are the police's new mandates according to Ericson and Haggerty as they write, we contend further that the role of the police as risk communica- tors in the service of external institutions changes the way in which the police provide security to individuals, organization, and institutions (1996: 18).
- keywords: actuarial; alternate; analysis; argument; bad; becki; butler; canada; canadian; case; censorship; certain; chemins; code; community; control; cossman; court; crime; criminal; customs; decision; discourse; discretion; doyle; effects; emergence; ericson; experts; fact; feminism; form; foucault; fuller; gay; haggerty; harm; heterosexual; history; ibid; individual; insurance; judicial; judiciary; justice; knowledge; lacombe; law; legal; lesbian; level; little; little sister; london; majority; management; materials; moral; morality; new; o'malley; obscene; obscenity; order; police; policies; policing; politics; pornography; power; practices; present; press; prevention; regulation; respect; right; risk; risk management; risk society; role; ross; routes; ruling; scientific; scythes; section; sexual; simon; sister; smith; social; society; standards; state; strategies; studies; supreme; system; test; testimony; toronto; trial; type; university; use; valverde; violence; volume; women; work
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- ar-20348
- author: Miller, Brian P.
- title: Talk of Inventing Tradition: Sketching Limitations of Anthropological Concepts of Culture
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 5800
- flesch: 48
- summary: Volume 19, 2003 Chemins Alternatifs Perspective Talk of Inventing Tradition: Sketching Limitations of Anthropological Concepts of Culture Brian P. Miller University of Manchester Introduction: On a Cultural Approach As an adolescent, 'culture' was always something to possess. Culture found its way into my life through the relocation of my body to designated areas where culture was contained, erected, even illustrated, for my gaze and absorption, rearranging my perceptions and awareness, and readying me for a specific kind of experience.
- keywords: ability; academic; alternate; alternatifs; anthropological; anthropology; century; change; chemins; communities; concept; conditions; contemporary; context; critical; cultural; culture; debate; definitions; differences; discipline; escobar; experience; global; human; idea; identity; ingold; institute; issues; jackson; journal; knowledge; limitations; lives; london; making; marshall; meaning; new; order; papers; particular; people; perception; perspective; point; politics; practice; process; research; routes; sahlins; self; sense; similar; social; society; specific; takes; term; things; time; tradition; understanding; university; use; volume; way; ways; western; world; writing; years; york
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- ar-20349
- author: Arnone, Anne
- title: Being Eritrean in Milan
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 15012
- flesch: 54
- summary: The dream though was privately experienced in many different ways by different peoples. In the milieu of Eritrean communities in Germany and in the UK, Al- Ali.
- keywords: access; alternate; alternatifs; analysis; anthropological; anthropology; applied; asylum; attention; body; building; cambridge; case; categories; catholic; change; chemins; church; collection; colonial; colonialism; communities; community; constitution; consumption; context; coptic; cultural; culture; data; description; different; discourses; earth; economic; eds; embodiment; eplf; eritrean; ethiopia; ethnicity; ethnography; european; experiences; fact; fieldwork; focus; forces; formation; gaze; groups; historical; histories; history; homeland; human; ideas; identities; identity; ideology; imnet; impact; important; individual; informants; insight; integration; interesting; issues; italian; italy; knowledge; language; law; liberation; life; linguistic; lives; london; loyalties; memories; memory; migrants; migration; milan; movement; nation; nationalism; nature; need; new; order; past; people; perceptions; period; personal; policies; political; politics; power; practices; pratt; present; press; previous; process; production; race; reality; refugees; related; relation; religious; research; routes; self; shape; site; social; society; specific; state; status; structure; studies; study; subjects; terms; territory; theoretical; time; transnational; type; understanding; university; use; value; volume; ways; work; years
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- ar-20350
- author: Fish, Kenneth
- title: Biotechnology and the Society-Nature Relation
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 8373
- flesch: 39
- summary: The production of nature thesis, with its emphasis on the process whereby nature comes to be constituted as a social reality would seem ideal for grasping the significance of these technological developments. transgenic organisms might be 'per- suaded to produce proteins not otherwise found in nature.
- keywords: 1998; abstraction; accumulation; alternate; attention; biopolitics; biotechnology; capitalist; capitalist social; central; changes; chemins; commodification; commodity; concrete; context; critical; degree; development; discursive; dualism; economy; emergence; focus; form; genetic; global; historical; human; hybrids; ideology; implications; important; information; instrument; interests; labour; labour process; level; material; molecular; natural; nature; nature relation; new; pnt; political; practices; process; processes; production; proliferation; reality; relations; routes; science; shift; smith; social; society; takes; technoscience; technoscientific; thesis; things; unique; university; unprecedented; volume; ways; world; york
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- ar-20351
- author: Martin, Fiona
- title: The Changing Configurations of Inequality in Post-industrial Society:Volunteering as a Case Study
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 11489
- flesch: 63
- summary: It also considers whether volunteer work can be explained according to the prevalent logic that it strengthens one's sense of place and purpose in the community/' Ultimately, this paper explores the possibility' that humanitarian vol- unteer work is, instead, a response to increasingly polarised social and economic inequality. Although comprehensive studies in the United States have begun to ask why self-interest is the most common logic currently drawn on to make sense of volunteer work (Eliasoph. 1998; Wuthnow. 1991).
- keywords: alternate; alternatifs; anne; anxieties; australia; bauman; better; bus; bus program; case; change; chemins; children; commitment; community; condition; consumer; contemporary; context; control; describe; difference; drug; example; experiences; fact; families; family; food; food bus; foucault; freedom; government; great; group; help; heroin; homelessness; hope; humanitarian; individual; industrial; kids; life; little; lives; living; lot; melbourne; moral; new; night; oldies; open; order; organizations; paper; particular; people; personal; philosophy; place; political; poor; post; poverty; press; problems; program; purpose; question; respect; responsibility; rose; routes; self; sense; social; society; sort; state; street; street kids; streeties; study; subject; support; talk; terms; thing; thought; time; underclass; university; use; volume; volunteering; volunteers; way; welfare; white; work; world; young
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- ar-20352
- author: Smith, Robyn
- title: The Possibility of Pleasure: Foucaulfs Philosophy of the Subject and the Logic of an Appeal to Aesthetics
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 5736
- flesch: 57
- summary: 2 Foucault's analysis of autonomous fields of discourse and his analy- sis of modem subjects constituted along the axis of a truth, an ethic and power are mutually re-enforcing to his philosophy of the subject. I argue that his adher- ence to the analytic of finitude as the framework for modem thought and the constitution of modem subjects enables Foucault to develop a philos- ophy of modem subjects as constituted along the axis of power, ethics and truth.
- keywords: aesthetics; analytic; autonomy; axis; body; capacities; chemins; conditions; discourse; discursive; domination; ethics; experience; finitude; foucault; freedom; human; knowledge; labour; language; life; limitations; man; modem; modem subjects; modern; moments; object; order; philosophy; possibilities; power; present; relations; representation; sciences; self; sense; subject; things; thought; truth; volume; work
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- ar-20353
- author: Godoy-Paiz, Paula
- title: 'Canada's Troubled Troops': The Construction of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Its Uses by the Canadian Armed Forces
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 7192
- flesch: 53
- summary: Subsequently, there has been an increasing amount of discussion within the military and in the media about the incidence of PTSD among Canadian soldiers. I then examine a number of news sto- ries of Canadian soldiers suffering from PTSD that have appeared in Canadian news.
- keywords: affairs; alternate; alternatifs; armed; article; atkins; attention; bodily; canada; canadian; canadian soldiers; caring; century; chemins; claims; clinical; construction; diagnosis; direction; discourse; disorder; dsm; event; experiences; following; forces; good; hacking; herman; ideologies; iii; image; individual; issues; late; memory; mental; military; moral; national; news; official; particular; past; peacekeepers; people; point; position; possible; post; present; psychiatric; ptsd; razack; real; routes; shock; social; soldiers; somalia; states; stories; stress; suffering; symptoms; syndrome; time; timeless; traumatic; traumatic memory; troops; troubled; veterans; victimhood; violence; volume; war; world; young
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- ar-20354
- author: Herro, Anne
- title: The United Nations and International Conflict Resolution
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 5651
- flesch: 57
- summary: The idea of creating an on-call repertoire of UN personnel from a variety of backgrounds, almost like a peacekeeping package would be a valid solution in addressing the issue of the quantity and quality of personnel that UNTAC and other UN missions have had to face. Why are UN resources always an issue?
- keywords: accords; agreement; alternate; alternatifs; boutros; brahimi; cambodian; cambridge; chemins; civpol; component; conflict; cpp; democracy; deployment; doyle; election; enforcement; extent; factions; failure; fair; free; government; international; issue; judicial; justice; lasting; mandate; members; mission; nations; need; new; operation; order; paris; parties; peace; peacekeeping; people; personnel; police; political; press; process; report; resolution; resources; routes; security; smith; states; success; system; united; united nations; university; untac; volume; york
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- ar-20355
- author: Vallee, Mickey
- title: The Secret Musical Self: Nostalgic Reification of Music According to Adorno
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 6801
- flesch: 35
- summary: That music is a form of regression, that this regression is the state within which reification occurs, suggests that Adorno's insights into popular music were contingent upon the intentional use of nostalgia in popular music production from the beginnings of the music industry. There is perhaps nobody in the history of music studies who considered popular music as blatantly ideological as Adorno or who scrutinized with such cynicism.
- keywords: 1941a; adorno; alienation; alternate; alternatifs; authenticity; ballad; beethoven; brennan; chamber; chemins; classical; commodities; commodity; compositional; consciousness; context; cultural; davis; emotional; escape; essays; example; exchange; experience; farm; festival; form; historical; history; human; identity; ideological; ideology; industrial; industry; key; labour; life; listener; material; modern; moment; music; musical; natural; neo; nostalgia; optimistic; past; people; person; popular; popular music; present; preservation; process; production; psychological; quaintness; radio; regression; reification; reified; relations; relationships; research; routes; secret; self; sentimental; social; society; state; survival; tradition; use; value; volume; work
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- ar-20357
- author: Quehl, Nadine
- title: Queering 'Madness': Possibilities of Performativity Theory
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 9241
- flesch: 52
- summary: There is also potential for performativity theory to be applied to men- tal disorders, such as 'dissociative identity disorder' (DID) and 'border- line personality disorder' (BPD), both of which rest on the assumption that the 'normal' self is a unified, coherent and singular being. Queering 'Mental Illness? ' Turning from how performativity has been understood by Butler and Csordas, we will now reflect on how one might apply this theoretical approach to the study of 'mental illness,' or the experiences of those diagnosed with 'mental disorders.'
- keywords: act; action; agency; alternate; alternatifs; anthropology; approach; attempt; austin; bipolar; body; butler; chemins; crazy; csordas; cultural; depression; differences; different; discourse; disorder; effects; estroff; example; experience; fact; fee; force; gender; groups; identities; identity; illness; illocutionary; implications; important; individuals; interpellation; language; life; madness; making; meaning; mental; mental illness; metaphors; motives; nature; new; normal; notion; orr; people; performance; performative; performativity; possibilities; possibility; potential; power; psychiatric; psychiatrists; psychotic; queer; ritual; role; routes; sayce; schizophrenia; self; sense; sex; social; speech; subject; subversive; terms; theory; treatment; trouble; understanding; university; use; utterance; voices; volume; way; ways; work; york
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- ar-20358
- author: Tejani, Riaz
- title: The Vanishing Point: Humanity, Vision, and Value Theory in the Age of Economic Globalization
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 6274
- flesch: 53
- summary: Thus a turn to reconcile modern with postmodern Marxism by considering the subaltern must realize that the erasure of most subal- terns, save for the few (call them hybrid 'subaltern-elites') who are able to at least negotiate Western value systems, precludes them from ever speaking on the matter. Castree's third way is to look at heterogeneity within value theory through a kind of incision made by Spivak.
- keywords: alternate; alternatifs; althusser; animals; argument; berger; body; capital; castree; chemins; class; commodity; crucial; culture; economic; economy; envision; field; food; form; global; history; human; humanity; ideological; ideology; kind; labor; like; logic; look; margins; market; material; means; modern; nature; need; new; object; outside; population; postmodern; process; production; question; raw; real; reality; representation; result; right; routes; sense; social; society; specific; specular; spivak; subaltern; subject; system; theorists; theory; use; value; vision; volume; way; western; work; world
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- ar-20359
- author: Young, Kevin
- title: The Other Side of the Market: social governance in neoliberal world order and the economy of passive mitigation
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 10130
- flesch: 46
- summary: Markets for treatment A subtle, yet increasingly important dynamic within liberal capitalist societies is the market's function as a form of non-disciplinary social 154 Volume 20, 2004 Chemins Alternatifs governance in which the psychological, social, and environmental adver- sities generated by neoliberal restructuring actually stimulate economic activity, and the growth of new markets. On the contrary, such markets for treatment may be relatively minor when the total burden of social governance is considered.
- keywords: 1994; 2002; action; adversities; alienation; alternate; alternatifs; braudel; cambridge; capitalism; certain; chemins; classes; coercion; commodities; commodity; consumerism; consumption; contradictions; credit; crisis; critical; culture; dynamic; economic; economy; effects; empire; environmental; example; expansion; fact; forms; function; global; governance; hardt; hegemonic; help; hochschild; imperatives; important; increasingly; individuals; intensive; international; labour; life; literature; london; manifestations; market; marxist; material; mental; mitigation; natural; nature; negri; neoliberal; neoliberalism; new; new markets; new york; non; o'connor; order; organization; paper; passive; passive mitigation; people; pijl; polanyi; political; political economy; possessive; possible; power; practices; press; private; problems; process; production; relations; resistance; restructuring; role; routes; sense; social; social governance; societies; sphere; state; terms; theory; treatment; understanding; unique; university; use; van; volume; way; ways; wood; work; world; york
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- ar-20360
- author: Joffe, Linda S.
- title: Kirp, David L. 2003. Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing ofHigher Education
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 1262
- flesch: 62
- summary: While it would be impossible for anyone to write a 300-page treatise exploring the entirety of higher education economics, Kirp does a remarkable job of synthesizing the information we ought to know. Linda S. Joffe As the twenty-first century begins to bloom, perhaps no entity will meta- morphose as much as higher education—and economic factors are clearly a major force driving these changes.
- keywords: book; customer; david; economics; education; einstein; example; general; higher; kirp; law; line; market; marketing; money; outsourcing; place; rcm; school; shakespeare; students; today; university; volume
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- ar-20362
- author: Watson, Gerald
- title: The Hidden Curriculum in Schools: Implications for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Youth
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 7550
- flesch: 53
- summary: Schools are also venues where gay and lesbian couples are covertly excluded from school social functions such as dances and where curricular resources for LGBTQ students, and those interested in LGBT-related issues, are usually nonexistent (Epstein and Johnson, 1994). Exam- ples of such student activism against school authority and cultural codes are many.
- keywords: activists; administrators; alternate; alternatifs; apple; bisexual; board; bobbitt; case; chemins; children; college; cultures; curriculum; dewey; discussion; district; diversity; dominant; education; educators; effects; elementary; environments; epstein; equity; experiences; focus; formal; gay; gays; gender; harm; heterosexuality; hidden; hidden curriculum; history; homosexuality; intentions; issues; jackson; johnson; justice; lakomski; learning; legal; lesbian; lgbtq; life; macdonald; measures; needs; new; norms; orientation; parents; particular; pinar; policies; policy; political; power; practice; relations; religious; research; resources; result; routes; school; sexuality; social; society; straight; students; teachers; teaching; theorists; toronto; values; volume; ways; york; youth
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- ar-20363
- author: Stoddart, Mark C.J.
- title: The Gramsci-Foucault Nexus and Environmental Sociology
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 7877
- flesch: 46
- summary: The large discrepancies in social power between environmental claims-makers and the corporate and state actors in environmental conflict are rarely problematized. It also draws our attention to the intimate connection between the opera- tion of social power at micro and macro dimensions.
- keywords: 1992; 1995; adkin; alternate; alternatifs; analysis; articulated; articulation; capital; capitalism; carroll; chemins; class; concepts; conflict; constructivism; counter; critical; cultural; culture; development; discourse; dominant; ecological; ecology; economic; economy; environmental; environmental sociology; foster; foucauldian; foucault; framework; gordon; gramsci; gramscian; grossberg; groups; hall; hegemonic; hegemony; ideology; key; knowledge; lens; model; movement; natural; nature; new; nexus; notion; oxford; perspective; political; politics; power; press; problems; processes; production; ratner; realm; relations; research; routes; routledge; sandilands; schnaiberg; social; society; sociology; sustainable; tension; theoretical; theory; treadmill; truth; university; useful; volume; work; york
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- ar-20364
- author: Howlett, Owen
- title: Racial Origins of Civic Nationalisms: Exploring Race Creation in Australia and Canada
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 6733
- flesch: 54
- summary: This is seen in both Canada and Australia where state deconstruction of racist race regimes has given rise to new race regimes. Clearly evident in both countries are patterns of race creation, based on racialist values, which created ideal images of white Australian and Canadian races, societies and countries.
- keywords: aboriginal; alternate; alternatifs; anderson; anthony; australia; building; canada; canadian; chemins; citizenship; civic; civic nationalism; construction; countries; creation; democratic; different; ethnic; exclusion; history; identity; imagining; immigrants; immigration; internal; marx; minorities; multiculturalism; nation; nationalism; new; non; peoples; policies; policy; political; politics; power; press; process; race; racial; racialism; racist; regimes; result; routes; settler; social; societies; society; stasiulis; state; studies; study; term; university; values; vickers; volume; white; work; york; zealand
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- ar-20365
- author: Kistler, Sarah Ashley
- title: Loanwords and Code-switching: Distinguishing Between Language Contact Phenomena in Ch'ol
- date: 2013-11-01
- words: 13042
- flesch: 54
- summary: Ch'ol speakers may not recognize Spanish loanwords as having Spanish origin; instead, they may consider these words to be Ch'ol words as a result of their assimilation and integration into the native Ch'ol lexicon. I gathered data through ethno- graphic research and recorded interviews that enabled me to analyze lan- guage interference, both generally and specifically, in the speech of a diverse sample of Ch'ol speakers.
- keywords: ability; alternate; alternatifs; analysis; assimilation; bilingual; bilingual speakers; bilingualism; borrowing; cambridge; campeche; ch'ol; ch'ol bilinguals; ch'ol lexicon; ch'ol life; ch'ol speakers; ch'ol speech; ch'ol words; changes; chemins; chiapas; code; codeswitching; community; contact; cultural; culture; daily; data; degree; different; discourse; distinction; dominant; ejido; equivalents; ethnic; event; example; extensive; fact; focus; frequent; government; grammatical; histories; hopkins; identity; indigenous; individuals; influence; integrated; integration; interference; intrasentential; items; kaufman; ladino; land; language; language contact; language interference; lexical; lexicon; life; linguistic; loans; loanwords; lopez; markers; married; mayan; mexican; mexico; migration; monolingual; monolingual ch'ol; muysken; myers; narratives; national; native; native ch'ol; new; numerous; order; origin; period; personal; phenomena; phonological; phrases; poplack; present; press; process; progress; regular; research; result; routes; sample; scotton; situations; social; society; spanish; spanish language; spanish words; speakers; specific; speech; switching; system; terms; thomason; time; tumbala; university; usage; use; volume; weinreich; widespread; words
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- ar-20591
- author: Fanelli, Carlo; Evans, Bryan
- title: Editorial Introduction
- date: 2013-12-05
- words: 2619
- flesch: 39
- summary: Next, Aaron Henry and Matthew Gandy discuss Editorial Introduction: Climate Change and Its Discontents | 11 new critical methodological tools with which scholars and activists can get a handle on the conjuncture, encompassing a range of issues con- nected with Gandy’s theory of ‘partial modernity’. 9 Carlo Fanelli and Bryan Evans Articles Introduction: Climate Change: ‘The Greatest Challenge of Our Time’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- keywords: alternate; bryan; canada; capitalism; carlo; change; climate; climate change; community; construction; critical; cummings; development; discontents; ecological; economic; editorial; emissions; environment; evans; fanelli; file:///d:/documents; foster; gendered; greg; indigenous; interview; introduction; issues; javascript; john; jordy; journal; labour; manuscript2013; new; political; politics; public; red%20quill%20books; research; review; routes; social; support; time; transit; union; uniting%20struggles; urban; war; work%20files; world
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- ar-20592
- author: Fanelli, Carlo
- title: Climate Change: 'The Greatest Challenge of Our Time'
- date: 2013-12-05
- words: 6872
- flesch: 36
- summary: When it comes to the science of anthropogenic climate change, like evolution, the debate is over: It is no longer a matter of debate whether or not human activity is influencing climate change, but the speed and scope of such change and its potential consequences for all life systems. Despite the conservatism, however, 2013 IPCC co-chair Thomas F. Stocker made clear that “Climate change is the greatest challenge of our time...
- keywords: activities; anthropogenic; anti; bill; canada; canadian; capitalist; carbon; cbc; challenge; change; class; climate; climate change; com; consensus; conservative; crisis; cut; debate; denial; department; discontents; earth; economic; emissions; energy; environmental; federal; fisheries; food; gender; ghg; global; government; great; harper; higher; human; important; inaction; increase; international; introduction; ipcc; justice; labour; levels; life; likely; making; market; means; media; natural; nature; new; news; november; oceans; october; oil; order; particular; percent; point; policy; political; politics; power; press; process; production; public; radical; recent; recession; renewable; report; research; result; science; scientific; scientists; services; social; solutions; state; strategy; time; trends; u.s; understanding; university; urban; warming; water; white; women; working; world; years; york
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- ar-20593
- author: Katz-Rosene, Ryan
- title: Capitalism, the Climate Crisis, and Canada
- date: 2013-12-05
- words: 8719
- flesch: 44
- summary: From the above analysis it would seem that neoliberal states are largely incapable of genuinely altering existing relations of mobility. Neoliberal states may have a willingness to reduce the socio-ecological impacts of transportation, but this is continually trumped by an unwillingness to intervene in the processes of economic growth.
- keywords: accumulation; anti; automobiles; canada; canadian; capacity; capitalism; cbc; change; climate; climate change; common; company; competition; contemporary; control; corporation; crisis; crown; democratic; discontents; ecological; economic; economy; efficient; energy; environmental; epe; example; february; federal; firms; fossil; framework; freight; fuel; global; government; growth; impacts; industry; infrastructure; interest; intervention; keynesian; level; market; means; mobility; modes; municipal; national; nature; need; neoliberal; neoliberalism; neoliberalization; new; news; non; o n; order; ottawa; ownership; passenger; percent; place; policies; policy; political; politics; power; practices; present; private; privatization; privatized; problems; processes; production; public; rail; regulation; related; relations; review; rights; role; scales; sector; sense; services; setting; social; socio; state; systems; time; transit; transport; transportation; trucking; turn; unsustainable; use; vehicles; way; willingness
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- ar-20595
- author: Cohen, Marjorie Griffin
- title: Gendered Emissions: Counting Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Gender and Why it Matters
- date: 2013-12-05
- words: 9592
- flesch: 57
- summary: The method I have used for calculating gendered GHG emissions through work is to use the known major contributors to GHG emissions in a variety of different ways. In this review of the literature on climate change justice, five basic principles emerge as a guide to the ethics of climate change policy.
- keywords: account; analysis; areas; assumption; canada; canadian; carbon; change; climate; climate change; climate justice; cohen; consumption; contributions; countries; country; data; deal; decisions; developed; development; differences; different; discontents; discussion; distinctions; division; ecological; economic; economy; electricity; emissions; employment; energy; environmental; equal; example; females; focus; footprint; force; gas; gender; gendered; ghg; ghg emissions; greater; green; higher; hours; household; impact; implications; income; industrial; industry; initiatives; issues; jobs; justice; kinds; labour; level; literature; major; males; national; nations; nature; new; oil; paper; people; percent; policies; policy; principles; production; public; related; report; research; responsibility; result; sector; share; shows; significant; social; sources; statistics; study; survey; table; tax; time; tonnes; total; transportation; trucks; type; understanding; vehicle; way; ways; women; work; world
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- ar-20596
- author: Calvert, John
- title: Overcoming Systemic Barriers to
- date: 2013-12-05
- words: 15110
- flesch: 47
- summary: This failure most clearly impacts the conventional training and apprenticeship of construction workers. But it also means there is little opportunity for a large portion of construction workers to acquire the advanced skill sets that are so necessary for implementing low carbon construction.
- keywords: able; activity; apprenticeship; approach; armstrong; association; barriers; benefits; british; building; c t; calvert; canada; canadian; capacity; carbon; carbon construction; challenge; change; charest; classroom; climate; climate change; codes; columbia; completion; component; comprehensive; compulsory; construction; construction industry; construction workers; contracting; contractors; cost; council; development; different; discontents; e n; economic; economy; effective; electrical; emissions; employers; employment; energy; environment; example; extensive; factors; federal; focus; general; ghg; global; government; greater; greening; hamilton; high; impact; industry; influence; initiatives; inspections; international; ipcc; issues; job; jobs; key; labour; large; long; low; major; market; materials; measures; n s; need; new; number; o n; objectives; ontario; operators; options; ottawa; overall; o’grady; paper; percent; policies; policy; potential; practices; prism; problems; process; program; project; provinces; provincial; public; qualified; quebec; rate; regulation; report; requirements; residential; resources; retrofitting; role; sector; services; significant; site; skilled; skills; small; smith; standards; statistics; stock; study; sub; support; system; systemic; t r; tax; technologies; term; time; toronto; trades; trades training; training; underground; underground economy; unionized; unions; university; use; vancouver; variety; way; wide; workers; workforce; working; workplace; world; years
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- ar-20597
- author: Augusto Rosotto Ioris, Antonio
- title: Approaches and Responses to Climate Change: Challenges for the Pantanal and the Upper Paraguay River Basin
- date: 2013-12-05
- words: 10500
- flesch: 42
- summary: This situation represents not only a significant obstacle for doing social sciences research on climate change responses, but the slow imple- mentation of those measures in the region also suggests that the Pantanal wetland and the UPRB remain relatively marginalised in the formulation of environmental policies and even in the environmental diplomacy between Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay. That is the case of the Pantanal, a large tropical wetland located in the Upper Paraguay River Basin (UPRB), in the centre of South America, where a range of responses are being devised to cope with the negative impacts of climate change.
- keywords: a.a.r; access; actors; adaptation; adaptive; adger; agribusiness; agriculture; amazon; america; analysis; anthropogenic; approaches; architecture; areas; basin; bolivia; brazil; brazilian; carbon; causes; challenges; changes; civil; climate change; climate justice; climatic; consequences; conservation; construction; conventional; countries; country; debate; development; different; discontents; ecological; economic; ecosystem; emissions; energy; entitlements; environmental; environmental change; evidence; financial; framework; future; ghg; global; governance; government; grosso; groups; hegemonic; high; human; hydropower; impacts; important; inequalities; influence; initiatives; instance; institutional; institutional responses; international; interviews; ioris; ipcc; issues; journal; justice; lack; large; legislation; likely; local; main; major; making; management; market; marketisation; mato; means; measures; mitigation; morales; nations; natural; new; organisations; pantanal; paraguay; pattern; percent; policies; policy; political; possible; problems; process; project; public; range; recent; redd; reduction; region; regional; related; relations; research; resources; responses; results; review; risks; river; scepticism; scientific; sectors; services; significant; social; society; socioeconomic; solutions; south; state; systematic; technologies; terms; theory; uprb; use; vulnerability; warming; water; wetland; world; year; | climate
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- ar-20598
- author: Potter, Garry; Chen, Jun Mian; Hilal, Nazar
- title: Brazilian Dystopia: Development and Climate Change Mitigation
- date: 2013-12-05
- words: 12572
- flesch: 53
- summary: We can see the effects of global climate change beginning to emerge in unusual weather patterns and the increased frequency of hurricanes, droughts and floods. Soil organic carbon has a potential rate of sequestration of up to 3 billion tons of carbon per year (Fairlie, 2012, p.1).Finally, it must be observed that Brazil’s cattle raising and beef export industry has expanded dramatically in recent years (see Figures 3 and 4 below) and thus is another significant Brazilian factor that is increasingly contributing to global climate change.
- keywords: agro; amazon; amazonian; argument; article; atmosphere; basic; beef; biomass; bodies; books; brazil; brazilian; brazilian dystopia; butler; capitalism; carbon; case; cattle; causality; cdm; certification; certified; change; climate; climate change; co2; collective; conservation; countries; course; critical; deforestation; deforested; developed; development; different; discontents; discourse; dissemination; driver; dystopia; dystopia thesis; ecological; ecology; economic; economy; effects; efforts; emissions; energy; environmental; estimates; example; existence; export; failures; fearnside; figure; focus; footprint; forest; forestry; form; foster; framework; fsc; fundamental; future; gas; ghg; global; greenhouse; growth; hand; hope; human; humanity; ibid; important; industry; inequality; interests; international; issue; key; knowledge; kyoto; land; level; living; local; logging; management; market; mitigation; mystification; nations; natural; nature; need; north; october; particular; pasture; people; percent; place; policies; policy; political; population; potential; potter; poverty; practices; problems; production; products; protocol; public; rainforest; ranching; realities; regard; research; resources; respect; right; role; root; scientific; section; services; significant; social; soil; solutions; south; standards; structural; sustainable; system; thesis; timber; time; trading; tropical; united; use; voluntary; warming; way; wood; world
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- ar-20599
- author: Kading, Terry; Bass, Elisabeth
- title: Can You Build an Open-Pit Mine in an Urban Centre? Big Copper Versus a Small City and the Urban Environment in a B.C. Interior Community
- date: 2013-12-05
- words: 9856
- flesch: 55
- summary: This rigid tone would be carried into KGHM’s long-awaited response to city council’s request for more information as “Kamloops city council sounded off about a letter from KGHM Ajax meant to answer questions asked of the proponent two years ago, calling the responses a range of things - from less than useless to shallow to a poor excuse. These potential detrimental effects have raised significant concerns for Kamloops city council, having devoted considerable time, planning and resources to an alternate vision for the city since 2003.
- keywords: activity; address; air; ajax; ajax project; approval; area; assessment; b.c; bass; blast; british; canada; canadian; centre; change; citizens; city; city council; climate; columbia; communities; community; concerns; context; copper; corporate; council; crisis; daily; decline; development; discontents; eao; economic; economy; effects; employment; environmental; evident; expansion; expected; extraction; facilities; fears; federal; financial; forestry; future; gas; global; gold; government; group; growth; health; high; howlett; impact; industry; information; interior; investment; kamloops; kamloops city; kapa; kghm; klassen; late; letter; level; liberal; limits; local; low; mines; mining; neo; new; news; number; open; opportunities; opposition; pit; place; plan; political; population; potential; private; process; project; proposal; prospects; province; provincial; questions; range; regional; regulatory; residents; resource; response; revenues; review; school; sector; services; set; significant; small; social; tax; thompson; time; urban; urban centre; vancouver; year; young
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- ar-20601
- author: Cummings, Jordy
- title: The Contradictions of Localism: An Interview with Greg Sharzer
- date: 2013-12-05
- words: 6435
- flesch: 57
- summary: Without extra-local political organization, capital can play these sections off against each other. JC: Structurally speaking, it seems that localism involves some aspect of commodity fetishism, in particular in its co-optation of opposition within capitalist social property relations.
- keywords: anti; bourgeois; capital; capitalism; change; class; climate; community; contradictions; course; discontents; economic; economy; example; food; forms; global; good; hand; history; impossible; labour; land; left; like; localism; making; market; mass; means; middle; movement; need; new; non; occupy; organizing; people; petty; pipeline; point; political; power; problem; production; project; property; question; relations; rent; revolution; right; schemes; sense; set; small; social; socialist; state; strategy; struggle; theory; urban; use; way; workers; working; world; years
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- ar-20602
- author: Henry, Aaron
- title: Urban Space in Perspective: An Interview with Matthew Gandy
- date: 2013-12-05
- words: 2297
- flesch: 36
- summary: ah: You have historicized urban space from the nineteenth century ‘bacteriological city’ to contemporary urban spaces constituted through ‘municipal managerialism’. Equally, if I want to include epidemiological aspects to urban landscapes or appreciate the wider scientific context for protecting urban bio-diversity I need to examine those fields carefully before attempting to combine aspects of the bio-physical sciences with a historically and geographically nuanced approach to the analysis of the production of urban space.
- keywords: book; case; cities; city; colonial; critical; ecological; environmental; fields; geography; global; history; interdisciplinarity; lagos; london; malaria; modernity; municipal; natural; need; new; perspective; policy; political; post; process; public; recent; relation; research; scale; sciences; scientific; social; space; types; urban; urban space; urbanization; wider; work
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- ar-20603
- author: Kinch, Megan
- title: Indigenous Takes On Environmentalism: An Interview on the Front Lines of Indigenous Land Defense
- date: 2013-12-05
- words: 3053
- flesch: 72
- summary: We’re still finding out ourselves, but we need to utilize other peoples, the revo- lutionary schools of thought, I guess, Marxism? 260 | Climate Change and Its Discontents affiliated with “environmental justice” movements in Canada have been trying to address previous shortcomings by putting solidarity with indigenous people at the forefront, but it hasn’t gathered the kind of support that mainstream environmentalism used to enjoy, nor has it been able to define what exactly that solidarity means.
- keywords: camp; different; environmentalism; giibwanasi; grizzly; indigenous; kaikaikon; kind; land; lot; marxism; movement; nations; native; people; questions; right; row; settler; ship; sleeping; struggle; things; time; wampum
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- ar-20604
- author: cummings, Jordy
- title: The Geopolitical Ecology of Empire
- date: 2013-12-05
- words: 6337
- flesch: 39
- summary: Despite these strengths, realist theory is based on a reification of the state and thus ignores the internationalization of Canadian capital and the role of dominant social groups in forging Canadian state policy at home and abroad. Or The Geopolitical Ecology of Empire’s Ally | 271 on the other hand, does the Canadian state and Canadian capital have interests of their own that sometimes diverge with international capital? Jerome klassen3 (Jk): In the social sciences, there are several theories of Canadian state power in the global political economy.
- keywords: accumulation; afghanistan; agenda; ally; american; anti; basis; building; canada; canadian; canadian capital; canadian foreign; canadian state; capacities; capital; capitalist; change; class; climate; context; current; democratic; development; diplomatic; discontents; ecological; ecology; economic; economy; empire; energy; environmental; example; forces; foreign; foreign policy; geopolitical; global; government; harper; imperialist; interests; international; internationalization; issues; key; left; market; middle; military; mining; movements; necessary; need; neoliberalism; new; order; particular; peace; period; policies; policy; political; politics; position; power; relations; research; role; secondary; security; social; socialist; state; strategy; support; system; terms; trade; u.s; university; war; way; working; world
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- ar-20605
- author: Rousseau, Christina
- title: Working in a Warming World: On Climate Change and Union Renewal with Carla Lipsig-Mumm
- date: 2013-12-05
- words: 4264
- flesch: 71
- summary: Another thing I learned from my Australian experience (and I’ve seen this in Germany as well) is that environmental work in a workplace sometimes begins with one or two people who are passionate in gath- ering others. Running parallel to the issue of union renewal and attacks against working class people is the issue of climate change.
- keywords: bargaining; canada; canadian; carla; change; climate; clm; collective; different; employer; environmental; example; government; green; industries; issues; jobs; labour; level; lipsig; local; lot; movement; national; need; number; occupational; people; percent; renewal; research; right; social; things; unions; united; warming; ways; work; workers; workplace; world
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- ar-20606
- author: da Silva, Steve
- title: Climate Change and Socialism: An interview with John Bellamy Foster
- date: 2013-12-05
- words: 3241
- flesch: 49
- summary: Marx’s approach here, in which he introduced the concept of social metabolism and connected this to the earth metabolism anticipated the structure of all subsequent ecological systems theory and our under- standing of ecological crisis. The Vice President of Bolivia, Álvaro García Linera, has drawn on Marx’s metabolism concept in his discus- sion of ecological issues.
- keywords: argument; budget; capitalism; carbon; catastrophism; change; climate; climate change; concept; conditions; consciousness; crisis; direction; earth; ecological; ecological rift; ecology; energy; environmental; foster; global; issues; jbf; left; loss; marx; metabolism; monthly; movement; nature; new; nuclear; people; planetary; report; review; revolution; rift; science; social; socialism; society; theory; time; work; world
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- ar-20607
- author: Wilson, Samantha
- title: The Ecological Rift: Capitalism
- date: 2013-12-05
- words: 1383
- flesch: 48
- summary: Foster et al., argue that humanity has become alienated from its natural environment. Foster et al., stress that the ecological and social crises humanity faces are one and the same.
- keywords: capitalism; change; clark; climate; crisis; earth; ecological; environment; foster; giddens; humanity; market; politics; review; rift; social; society; state; sustainable; york
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- ar-20608
- author: DiNovelli-Lang, Danielle
- title: Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
- date: 2013-12-05
- words: 1130
- flesch: 35
- summary: Otherwise, they are all very dif- ferent, and herein lies Federici’s most crucial contribution to the discussion of revolutionary subjects and subjectivities, most clearly articulated in the 2008 essay, “The Reproduction of Labor Power in the Global Economy and the Unfinished Feminist Revolution,” quoted above: By dismantling Marxist claims that capitalism has a progressive character (p.92) Federici frees us from the expectation that the revolution must come “after” it. Reproductive labor is not just the book’s organizing theme; it emerges through the process of reading Federici’s essays in sequence as the political problem that manifestly joins what would oth- erwise appear to be very different historical conditions of struggle, from the Wages for Housework campaign in the ‘70s to the anti-globalization movements of the fin de siècle.
- keywords: book; capitalism; essays; federici; feminist; housework; labor; point; press; production; reproductive; review; revolution; revolutionary; struggle; subsistence; university; work; workers
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- ar-20609
- author: Komarnisky, Deborah
- title: False Positive: Private Profit in Canada
- date: 2013-12-05
- words: 1049
- flesch: 51
- summary: Sutherland maintains that the exclusive use of public non-profit organizations is the best way to increase access to medical care, control costs incurred by private for- profit medical care, integrate services, improve quality of healthcare and enhance the democratic control of health care in Canada. Sutherland also challenges whether Canadians have equal access to medical care and through the use of private for-profit medical labo- 312 | Climate Change and Its Discontents ratories.
- keywords: access; canada; care; health; laboratories; laboratory; medical; non; private; profit; public; samples; sutherland; system; testing
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- ar-20610
- author: Etcheverry, Gabrielle
- title: El diario del Che en Bolivia
- date: 2013-12-05
- words: 1127
- flesch: 55
- summary: Book Review: El diario del Che en Bolivia | 313 Book Review El diario del Che en Bolivia by Ernesto Che Guevara. Photos of local roads, scenery, flora and fauna, such as tapirs, llamas, turkeys, and the kinds of fish Che describes catching for dinner in one of his entries are included throughout along with photos of some of the key towns and surrounding areas his group would have crossed on their journey.
- keywords: bolivia; book; castro; che; cuba; days; diario; diary; entries; ernesto; fidel; final; group; guevara; information; photos; review; revolutionary; states; university
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- ar-20611
- author: Partridge, Kevin
- title: Don
- date: 2013-12-05
- words: 1155
- flesch: 51
- summary: They are concerned about the absence of spaces for children and the problems of providing child- care amongst social justice groups. The editors of the book arrange the chapters so that they progress from descriptions of the many problems that people encounter when they are involved in social justice groups towards pos- sible solutions to these problems.
- keywords: activists; advocate; book; change; chapters; children; different; editors; groups; justice; movements; oppression; people; political; practices; problems; social; specific
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- ar-20612
- author: Jaremko Bromwich, Rebecca
- title: Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women
- date: 2013-12-05
- words: 1488
- flesch: 48
- summary: The text then uniquely discusses active steps women in prison take to challenge and change their condi- tions, from the formation by women in prison of peer education groups, the clandestine making of arrangements for children to visit mothers to prison rebellions and uses of the media by woman prisoners in raising public awareness about their lives. Reviewed by Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich1 Carleton University Victoria Law’s book Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcer- ated Women is an account of the agency of women prisoners in the United States produced by an abolitionist scholar.
- keywords: agency; bars; book; carleton; change; conditions; critical; fozooni; incarcerated; law; lives; prison; prisoners; read; resistance; review; social; states; struggles; studies; system; text; university; women; working
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- ar-20613
- author: Malamiry, Mahman A.
- title: What is Critical Social Research? Volume 1
- date: 2013-12-05
- words: 1350
- flesch: 36
- summary: Pages: 1-198. Reviewed by Mahnam A. Malamiry1 Carleton University Babak Fozooni’s book provides a genuine, provocative, and insightful opportunity to have in one book a number of previously pub- lished articles in the realms of cinema and Iranian social movements; the ideological politics behind encyclopedic discourses on fascism, and Engels; and critical social psychology. The next article shows how socio-political systems of governance dominate Iranian family and women.
- keywords: analysis; article; book; complex; critical; discourses; foucauldian; foucault; fozooni; governance; iranian; islamic; kiarostami; means; political; politics; psychology; research; review; social; socio; studies; theoretical; working
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- ar-20614
- author: Hawkins, Matthew
- title: Jos
- date: 2013-12-05
- words: 1086
- flesch: 34
- summary: Book Review: José Carlos Mariátegui | 327 paper La Prensa where he eventually began writing on high society, liter- ature and art. To create a ‘sense of the world’ – achieved through a contextual and historical analysis of the contemporary reality – for Mariátegui is the opening for transforming the dominant social relations.
- keywords: anthology; becker; carlos; class; colonial; critical; economy; essays; health; historical; indigenous; intellectual; josé; mariátegui; marxist; paper; peru; peruvian; political; relations; review; vanden; writing
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- ar-20615
- author: Whiteley, Paul
- title: A New Notion: Two Works by C.L.R. James
- date: 2013-12-05
- words: 1105
- flesch: 43
- summary: Book Review: A New Notion | 329 Book Review A new notion: two works by C.l.R. James by C.L.R. James, edited and with an introduction by Noel Ignatiev. A New Notion presents James as polemicist, pamphleteer and above all as one believing centrally in the power of revolutionary workers: With the world socialist revolution the history of humanity will begin.
- keywords: boggs; book; c.l.r; democracy; ignatiev; james; lenin; marxist; new; noel; notion; party; pieces; review; socialist; society; soviet; state; tendency; union; workers
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- ar-20616
- author: Santos, Madalena
- title: Negotiating Risk, Seeking Security, Eroding Solidarity: Life and Work on the Border
- date: 2013-12-05
- words: 1122
- flesch: 29
- summary: Substantially, their research points to the contradictory processes that exist alongside the erosion of working class solidarity revealing traditional and non- traditional practices and possibilities for solidarity which has consider- able implications for the exploration of solidarity movements outside the workplace in all fields of study and political contexts. To deal with sexism, racism, and overburdening responsibilities, workers rely on individualized coping methods rather than collective solidarity.
- keywords: authors; class; collective; community; experiences; family; gender; gibbs; leach; practices; race; risk; security; social; solidarity; structural; study; women; workers; yates
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- ar-20617
- author: Fodor, Matt
- title: The Great Revenue Robbery: How to Stop the Tax Cut Scam and Save Canada
- date: 2013-12-05
- words: 1037
- flesch: 49
- summary: Taxes are viewed as a burden to be avoided; in other words, taxes are separated from the services they pay for. Dobbin stresses the need to link tax fairness with communitarian values and a progressive values and suggests that campaigners “frame the issue as a choice two very different futures: a continuation of the dystopian low-tax, high-private- consumption regime; the other, a return to higher taxes but also to more public goods and stronger communities” (p. 141).
- keywords: book; canada; canadian; chapter; conservative; corporate; great; political; politics; progressive; public; revenue; review; robbery; role; social; swift; taxation; taxes; toronto
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- ar-22310
- author: Fanelli, Carlo; Evans, Bryan
- title: Capitalism in the Classroom: The Commodification of Education
- date: 2015-01-16
- words: 4688
- flesch: 45
- summary: As a result, Ontario undergraduate students hold the largest debt at graduation averaging more than $37,000 per student and increasing to over $44,000 for PhD graduates. Consequently, post-secondary education (PSE) underwent an unprecedented expansion and one largely funded by the state.
- keywords: academic; alm; alternate; articles; austerity; average; bryan; business; canada; canadian; capitalism; carlo; centre; classroom; colleges; conference; corporate; cox; critical; degradation; development; economic; economy; editorial; education; evans; fanelli; fees; fisher; forms; framework; freedom; giroux; government; higher; increase; interests; interview; introduction; justice; knowledge; labour; like; market; measures; needs; neoliberalism; new; ontario; pay; percent; perspective; policy; political; politics; post; potter; private; privatization; process; production; profit; pse; public; recent; report; research; role; routes; school; secondary; sector; services; social; state; students; tuition; undergraduate; universities; university; volume; white; work; workers; year
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- ar-22311
- author: Brownlee, Jamie
- title: The Corporate Corruption of Academic Research
- date: 2015-01-16
- words: 11414
- flesch: 48
- summary: The Corporate Corruption of Academic Research | 41 costs of drug research is a costly venture. There is also increasing corporate and government pressure to reduce regulations 42 | Neoliberalism and the Degradation of Education on drug research and eliminate independent watchdog groups.11 In the corporatized university, marketing and profit continue to replace science as heavily compromised research infiltrates the peer-reviewed literature and the “knowledge” base of physicians.
- keywords: academic; academic medicine; academic research; academy; american; areas; articles; association; authors; available; bias; biomedical; business; canada; canadian; cancer; case; children; clinical; commercial; companies; company; conclusions; conflicts; control; corporate; corporate corruption; corporations; corporatization; corruption; data; david; degradation; disclosure; drug; education; evidence; example; fact; faculty; financial; findings; freedom; funding; ghost; government; health; healy; higher; impact; independent; industry; influence; information; institutions; integrity; interest; journal; knowledge; krimsky; life; likely; literature; management; marketing; medical; medical research; medicine; nature; neoliberalism; new; olivieri; patent; peer; percent; pharmaceutical; planning; policy; polster; practice; press; private; process; production; professional; programs; public; publication; recent; relationships; reported; research; research bias; research secrecy; researchers; results; review; risk; schafer; schools; science; scientific; scientists; secrecy; sismondo; sponsors; studies; study; support; survey; tobacco; topics; toronto; trials; turk; universities; university; university research; washburn; work; world; writing; years; york
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- ar-22312
- author: Noonan, Jeff; Coral, Mireille
- title: The Tyranny of Work: Employability and the Neoliberal Assault on Education
- date: 2015-01-16
- words: 9259
- flesch: 49
- summary: Of all the alienating effects school produces, none is more damaging to the formation of individual and collective agency than the belief that making oneself marketable to potential employers is both a primary duty of social life and a natural necessity. Educators take sides, but not for one party as against another in any narrow and dogmatic way, but against the attempts of ideological schooling to present social life as fixed, its hier- archies natural.
- keywords: academic; adult; adult education; agency; agenda; alienated; assault; basic; canadian; capacities; capacity; capitalist; change; class; classroom; cognitive; collective; contradiction; course; critical; curriculum; degradation; demands; development; dialogue; discussion; education; educators; effects; employability; established; experience; faculty; freedom; future; goals; government; harris; higher; history; horton; human; imaginative; implications; individual; institutions; knowledge; labour; learning; level; life; lives; march; market; ministry; mission; narrow; needs; neoliberal; neoliberalism; new; non; ontario; people; point; policy; political; popular; popular education; power; process; project; public; real; reality; reforms; request; rights; ruling; schooling; schools; secondary; self; sense; skills; social; society; space; students; system; teachers; thought; time; toronto; tyranny; understanding; universities; university; value; way; work; workers; world
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- ar-22313
- author: Bocking, Paul
- title: Why Do Governments Adopt Neoliberal Education Policies? Critical Theory on Policy Movement in the Context of Contemporary Reform in Mexico
- date: 2015-01-16
- words: 11147
- flesch: 45
- summary: The WB and the OECD have a major presence in Mexico and a significant impact on the formation of national education policy. I T Y I begin with the argument that critical perspectives from geography on policy transfer are highly complementary with those of comparative educa- tion for understanding why and how neoliberal education policies cross national borders.
- keywords: ace; agenda; agreements; alliance; analysis; approach; authorities; autonomy; bacon; bank; business; carnoy; case; changes; chiapas; city; cnte; comparative; constitutional; context; critical; dale; december; degradation; democratic; development; domestic; economic; education; education policies; education reforms; employment; exams; federal; focus; following; geographies; geography; global; gordillo; government; groups; gsae; guerrero; gurría; hernández; hiring; ideological; important; influence; interview; july; june; key; khamsi; laws; level; local; major; making; means; mexican; mexicanos; mexico; mexico city; movement; national; navarro; neoliberal; neoliberal education; neoliberalism; new; nieto; november; o n; oaxaca; oecd; opposition; organization; pact; pan; panzazo; party; peck; percent; peña; peña nieto; policies; policy; political; power; powerful; practices; president; primero; prince; private; public; public education; quality; recommendations; reforms; relative; research; resistance; right; role; roll; school; secondary; secretary; sector; september; significant; similar; snte; social; standardized; state; steiner; strategic; strong; structural; students; studies; study; substantial; support; system; teachers; time; transfer; transnational; union; university; work; world; world bank; year
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- ar-22314
- author: Cosar, Simten; Ergul, Hakan
- title: Free-Marketization of Academia through Authoritarianism: The Bologna Process in Turkey
- date: 2015-01-16
- words: 10079
- flesch: 46
- summary: The importance of higher education for the restructuring process is hinted at the LHE, which defined the Council of Higher Education (Yükseköğretim Kurulu, YÖK) as a consti- tutional organ in 1981, when Turkey was still ruled by a military regime.6 In the official discourse, the Council was justified on the grounds that the increase in the number of university students called for a standardized educational policy and administration. This ar ticle focuses on the neoliberalization of higher education in Turkey.
- keywords: 1980s; academic; adjustment; administrative; akp; amendments; analysis; ankara; article; authoritarianism; autonomy; bologna; constitution; context; couldry; council; country; coup; critical; data; decades; decisions; degradation; different; discourse; dynamics; dölen; economic; eds; education; education system; european; field; financial; flexibility; foundation; free; freedom; governments; grounds; hand; higher education; implementation; institutions; interview; knowledge; law; learning; legal; level; lhe; lifelong; march; market; marketization; measures; military; neoliberal; neoliberalism; neoliberalization; new; notes; opposition; order; parties; period; point; policies; policy; political; post-1980; power; practices; priorities; private; process; production; public; recent; regime; related; research; respect; restructuring; retrieved; right; sage; science; second; social; socio; sphere; state; structure; students; studies; style; system; teaching; technology; terms; transformation; turkey; turkish; universities; university; values; violence; working; world; years; yök; yükseköğretim
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- ar-22315
- author: Potter, Garry
- title: Rebellious Responses to the Walmartization of Canadian Higher Education
- date: 2015-01-16
- words: 8188
- flesch: 56
- summary: In my view, the key issue is the situation of contract academic faculty. Contract faculty and staff members fear identi- fication and management reprisals and so (perhaps wisely) have chosen to remain anonymous.
- keywords: academic; action; administrative; administrators; argument; arts; average; aware; benefit; bog; brantford; building; business; campus; canada; canadian; canadian higher; casual; change; choice; class; classes; colleagues; contract; cost; course; crisis; cuts; decision; degradation; departments; direction; education; example; experience; fact; faculty; fight; financial; force; good; higher; higher education; iprm; labour; laurier; like; little; long; making; management; members; need; neoliberal; neoliberalism; new; number; ontario; pay; point; political; privilege; process; programs; public; quality; real; rebellious; recommendations; report; resistance; resource; responses; review; sbe; senate; senior; sessionals; situation; sizes; staff; students; teaching; tenure; terms; things; time; time faculty; timers; track; union; universities; university; walmartization; wilfrid; wlu; years
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- ar-22316
- author: Newstadt, Eric
- title: From Being an Entrepreneur to Being Entrepreneurial: The Consolidation of Neoliberalism in Ontario
- date: 2015-01-16
- words: 10382
- flesch: 44
- summary: In a recent discussion paper intended to frame debate over higher education policy in the Province, the Government asks: “The government is committed to providing new and dedicated sup- port for Ontario’s young entrepreneurs. “Ontario Higher Education Reforms 1995-2003: From Modest Modifications to Policy Reform.”
- keywords: 1980s; able; academic; agency; analysis; assessment; business; cairns; canada; canadian; capitalism; change; competitive; contingent; course; critical; crowd; david; degradation; degree; development; disentitlement; economic; economy; education; efforts; emergence; employment; entrepreneurial; entrepreneurship; example; fact; faculty; firms; fisher; funding; global; government; help; higher; higher education; idea; impact; innovation; institutions; intended; investment; jones; jurisdictions; kind; knowledge; labour; large; learning; levels; life; like; likely; literature; mainstream; making; manner; market; means; need; neoliberal; neoliberal university; neoliberalism; new; newstadt; oecd; ontario; particular; policy; political; polster; potential; press; pressure; product; programs; province; public; quality; rae; recent; reform; report; research; review; scholars; sears; sector; self; set; slaughter; smes; statistics; students; support; system; teaching; terms; time; toronto; transformation; trick; understanding; universities; university; way; ways; words; work; workers; york
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- ar-22317
- author: Hewitt-White, Caitlin
- title: The OSSTF Anti-Bill 115 Campaign: An Assessment from a Social Movement Unionism Perspective
- date: 2015-01-16
- words: 11965
- flesch: 50
- summary: The fact that OSSTF member survey results from 2009 indicated that members wanted a better partnership with the public The OSSTF Anti-Bill 115 Campaign | 179 and with parents casts a tragic shadow on the missed opportunities of the Bill 115 campaign to engage union members, parents, and students. This approach collapses the false dichotomy between union members and community members so that a union member’s interest extends beyond her immediate economic interests in good wages and working condi- tions, to include her wider interest in, for instance, affordable housing or quality public healthcare.
- keywords: action; agreements; anti; approach; april; austerity; bargaining; better; bill; boards; branch; business; campaign; canada; case; class; collaboration; collective; common; concerns; conditions; contract; control; coran; curriculum; cuts; day; days; december; degradation; democratic; district; economic; education; education workers; end; engagement; executive; extracurricular; federation; fight; file; fletcher; funding; globe; good; government; harris; high; interests; internal; involvement; january; job; justice; knowledge; labour; late; leaders; leadership; liberals; local; longer; mail; making; meetings; members; mou; movement; need; neoliberalism; new; non; november; october; offer; office; ontario; osstf; osstf anti; osstf members; osstf provincial; paper; parents; party; period; policies; policy; position; power; practices; presidents; process; province; provincial; public; public education; quality; rank; recent; relationship; retrieved; rights; ross; savage; school; school teachers; secondary; sector; september; social; social justice; staff; star; strategy; strike; structure; students; support; system; talks; teachers; toronto; union; union members; unionism; vote; weiner; workers; working; workplace
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- ar-22318
- author: Nelson, Mat; Dobson, Lydia
- title: Precarious Employment in Ontario
- date: 2015-01-16
- words: 9169
- flesch: 52
- summary: Palmer critiques Standing for viewing precarious workers as somehow part of a distinctive, “new class force,” within “a hierarchy of differenti- ated class formations,” as part of “a new neoliberal global economy” (Palmer, 2013, 42-43). However, precarious workers such as TA’s primarily operate on two to four year contracts, the majority of which are two years in duration.
- keywords: academic; administration; agreement; austerity; available; bargaining; benefits; board; broader; campus; canada; canadian; carleton; carleton university; challenges; class; collective; conditions; contract; convention; corporate; cost; crisis; cupe; cupe national; december; degradation; different; education; efforts; employment; fanelli; favour; fees; fellows; fight; forms; health; higher; impact; increase; instructors; interests; january; jobs; june; labour; lefebvre; living; local; march; members; membership; mobilization; national; neoliberalism; new; news; non; november; october; ontario; organizing; palmer; pay; percent; politics; post; postsecondary; power; precariat; precarious; precarious employment; precarious workers; precariousness; precarity; private; public; recent; residence; rml; round; sector; security; solidarity; standing; strike; struggle; student; support; tas; teaching; temporary; time; toronto; traditional; tuition; union; unit; universities; university; university sector; vote; wages; workers; working; workplace; year; young
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- ar-22321
- author: Mirrlees, Tanner
- title: A Critique of the Millennial: A Retreat from and Return to Class
- date: 2015-01-16
- words: 11228
- flesch: 52
- summary: By defining age as the thing that unites and divides people, millennial media discourse distorts the substantive division between owning and working class millennials. In postmodern management theory and practice, this “new spirit of capitalism”(Boltanski and Chiapello, 2005) gets millennial workers to superintend their own dispossession.
- keywords: 2013; 2014; advertising; american; analysis; apple; april; big; boomers; brand; business; canada; canadian; capitalist; century; ceo; ceos; circumstances; class; cohort; commodities; common; conflict; consumer; control; corporate; corporations; critique; debt; degradation; demand; different; discourse; diversity; economic; education; example; exchange; firms; free; freedom; generation; goods; high; historical; identities; identity; ideology; images; income; industries; inequality; interest; jobs; july; labour; late; life; low; making; management; managers; march; market; marketing; marketplace; means; media; media representations; millennial; millennial consumer; millennial generation; millennial working; money; need; neoliberalism; new; new york; news; olive; owners; owning; paper; pay; people; percent; period; political; politics; power; precarious; press; process; production; products; profit; promotional; racialized; real; relations; representations; rich; self; service; shape; social; socialist; society; sovereign; state; struggle; system; technology; time; u.s; wage; want; way; ways; wealth; white; women; workers; working; working class; workplace; world; xers; york; young; youth
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- ar-22322
- author: McLean, Heather
- title: Neoliberalism and the Attack on Education: An Interview with Henry A. Giroux
- date: 2015-01-16
- words: 2886
- flesch: 37
- summary: The apostles of neoliberalism, on the other hand, want to eliminate the critical function of public education on all levels and they are working hard to transform these institutions into disimagination factories. The attempts to colonize the arts as an extension of neoliberal public pedagogy and repression testi- fies to how cultural apparatuses have become increasingly responsible for the darkness that surrounds us.
- keywords: academics; alliances; attack; central; conditions; critical; crucial; cultural; democracy; democratic; education; faculty; hag; higher; imagination; important; labour; left; neoliberalism; new; pedagogical; pedagogy; people; political; politics; power; practice; public; radical; role; social; state; students; time; university; workers
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- ar-22323
- author: Giroux, Henry
- title: The New Brutalism in Higher Education
- date: 2015-01-16
- words: 6058
- flesch: 47
- summary: As the corporatization of higher education intensifies, there is little talk in this view of higher education about the history and value of shared governance between faculty and administrators, nor of educating students as critical citizens rather than potential employees of Walmart. The ar ticle argues that under the material and affec tive assaults of neoliberalism, higher education across the globe is experiencing an unprecedented attack on its role as a democratic public sphere.
- keywords: academics; agency; american; analysis; anti; assault; attack; autonomy; better; brutalism; business; citizenship; civic; class; coetzee; consumption; corporate; corporations; country; crisis; critical; critique; degradation; democracy; democratic; dissent; economic; education; faculty; financial; form; freedom; good; governance; higher; higher education; imagination; income; instance; institutions; intellectuals; interests; journalists; justice; kind; labor; market; modes; need; neoliberalism; new; new brutalism; new york; number; past; pedagogy; people; percent; policies; political; politics; power; press; prison; public; relations; repressive; responsibility; right; rise; self; social; society; state; students; terms; threat; time; united; universities; university; values; violence; war; wealth; working; world; york; young
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- ar-22324
- author: Bailey, Christopher
- title: Neoliberal Standardization and Its Discontents: An Interview with Diane Ravitch
- date: 2015-01-16
- words: 1847
- flesch: 58
- summary: DR: The key features of neoliberal education reform are 1) a heavy reliance on standardized testing; 2) a willingness to eliminate collective bargaining and tenure; 3) a hostility to public education as such; 4) a preference for privately managed charter schools; 5) support for attacks on the teaching profession, including hostility to tenure and profes- sionalism; 6) support for alternate routes into teaching like Teach for America, whose recruits have only five weeks of training and typically leave after 2-3 years in the classroom. How is public education currently funded under these programs? DR: The privatization movement began with economist Milton Fried- man’s proposal for vouchers in 1955.
- keywords: bush; charter; department; education; funding; movement; neoliberal; parents; profit; progressive; public; reform; research; schools; secretary; standardization; standards; support; teachers; testing; u.s
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- ar-22325
- author: James, Carl E.
- title: Beyond Education, Brains and Hard Work: The Aspirations and Career Trajectory of Two Black Young Men
- date: 2015-01-16
- words: 9095
- flesch: 55
- summary: In fact, Canadian studies of Black university students (Gosine, 2008; James and Taylor, 2008) show that their educational aspirations were motivated by their sense of obligation to their immigrant parents and their desire to “give back” to their (Black) community. In fact, as Trevor said, “all of the Black students in the school were on the sports team, whether it was basketball, volleyball, or track and field”4 and some of them were in special education classes “for behavioural or academic reasons” – classes in which Black students tend to be over-represented (see Toronto District School Board, 2010).
- keywords: ability; able; academic; access; african; area; aspirations; athletic; basketball; better; black; braedley; brains; canada; canadian; career; case; class; community; conditions; critical; cultural; december; degradation; economic; education; ethos; experiences; fact; hard; help; high; individuals; interviews; james; job; kid; kobe; life; lives; london; luxton; males; men; middle; mother; neighbourhood; neoliberalism; new; occupational; opportunities; parents; participants; people; police; poor; race; racial; racialized; research; resources; responsibility; school; schooling; sense; skills; social; sociology; sports; structures; students; studies; study; support; system; teachers; teaching; theory; time; toronto; trevor; university; urban; ways; white; work; year; young; youth
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- ar-22326
- author: Cummings, Jordy
- title: The Abode of Educational Production: An Interview with Peter McLaren
- date: 2015-01-16
- words: 9909
- flesch: 50
- summary: Here, I have been influenced greatly by the work of Hegel and Marx, and Dunayevs- kaya’s theory of state capitalism. Yes, the textbook and assessment company that produces standardized texts, that is singled out by progressive educators as one of the companies that is destroying public education.
- keywords: able; abode; alternative; american; approach; bill; bloc; bolivarian; book; canada; canadian; capitalism; chapman; chávez; citizen; city; class; college; community; consciousness; context; corporate; corporations; corridor; course; cries; crisis; critical; culture; death; degradation; democracy; democratic; development; economic; edition; education; educational production; educator; financial; forces; freire; friends; global; god; good; help; henry; higher; historical; history; hope; ideas; important; initiatives; institutions; jesus; justice; kind; kingdom; knowledge; labor; left; life; like; look; luke; market; marx; marxist; means; mission; moral; need; neoliberalism; new; notes; obama; offer; old; particular; path; paulo; pearson; pedagogy; people; poetic; political; poor; population; power; praxis; process; production; progressive; projects; public; relations; revolutionary; rich; robinson; role; rules; ruling; schooling; schools; social; socialism; society; state; struggle; students; system; teachers; theory; thinking; time; today; toronto; transnational; understanding; united; university; use; venezuela; vision; way; work; workers; working; world; years
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- ar-22327
- author: Harden, Joel D.
- title: Learning Without Sages? Reflections on
- date: 2015-01-16
- words: 5533
- flesch: 60
- summary: My second source was “popular education”, a pedagogical approach that has challenged passive models of student learning. Students often do not want to learn and teachers do not want to teach.
- keywords: academe; academic; adrian; approach; book; canadian; carleton; challenges; class; classes; classroom; colleagues; course; critical; debates; degradation; department; discussion; education; educators; engaged; essay; expectations; experience; freire; general; giroux; grade; history; labour; large; law; learners; learning; lecture; like; materials; merits; movements; narrative; neoliberalism; new; north; ottawa; outline; pedagogical; pedagogy; popular; present; process; questions; radical; research; sages; second; seminar; social; society; students; studies; teacher; teaching; testing; time; toronto; university; words; work; writing; year; york
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- ar-22328
- author: Cummings, Jordy
- title: Beyond the First Rung: An Interview with Jim Silver
- date: 2015-01-16
- words: 6369
- flesch: 55
- summary: Many young Aboriginal people see no point in struggling to succeed educationally. This is a huge problem in western Canada, especially as regards Aboriginal people, who historically have had many negative experi- ences with education, and who continue to face discrimination in the labour market.
- keywords: aboriginal; adult; alternative; approach; better; building; canada; capitalism; change; city; class; collective; colonialism; communities; community; complex; degradation; development; education; example; families; gains; government; great; housing; income; initiatives; inner; inner city; jobs; labour; levels; likely; literacy; lives; low; manitoba; market; ndp; neoliberalism; non; outcomes; people; poor; poverty; publishing; real; reformist; reforms; rental; rung; sense; silver; social; struggles; students; support; system; ways; winnipeg; work; world
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- ar-22329
- author: Fanelli, Carlo
- title: Critical Education and Insurgent Pedagogies: An Interview with E. Wayne Ross
- date: 2015-01-16
- words: 7440
- flesch: 41
- summary: International students pay about $12,000/year tuition to attend BC public schools, which is about twice as much as the provincial grant for Canadian students in public schools; Public school districts are now allowed to create private, for-profit business companies to set up overseas schools staffed by BC certified teachers teaching the BC provincial curriculum as a way to make up for inadequate govern- ment funding; Inadequate funding from the province has pushed local parent groups into more and more fundraising and made schools more vulnerable to corporate incursions, which include advertising and corporate-branded private grants to support core curricular as well as extra-curricular school activities. He has published more than 20 books and over 200 articles, book chapters, essays, and reviews on curriculum studies, social studies education, teacher education, and critical pedagogy.
- keywords: academic; accountability; action; anti; authority; british; canadian; capital; class; columbia; common; community; conditions; corporate; critical; critical education; curriculum; degradation; democracy; democratic; dewey; discourse; education; educators; ewr; example; faculty; forum; free; freedom; funding; good; government; groups; high; human; ices; institute; insurgent; interests; international; journals; key; labour; learning; liberals; media; meeting; national; ncss; neoliberal; neoliberal education; neoliberalism; new; north; open; pedagogies; pedagogy; people; political; power; principle; private; program; provincial; public; public education; public schools; radical; reform; research; resistance; responsibility; rouge; rouge forum; schools; small; social; society; standardized; state; strike; students; studies; support; system; tax; teachers; teaching; testing; tests; university; usa; wayne; ways; work; working; workplace; world; year
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- ar-22330
- author: Brogan, Peter
- title: Class Dismissed: Why We Can
- date: 2015-01-16
- words: 1125
- flesch: 50
- summary: Here, Marsh demonstrates why the default position of using education to address economic inequality has failed. The second part of the book examines why, when, and how education has come to dominate discussions about “opportunity, prosperity and poverty in American life” (21), as well as alternative ways Americans once imag- ined they could advance in society (e.g. through collective struggle and a more expansive welfare state) has been pushed out of public policy debates.
- keywords: book; case; class; economic; education; good; inequality; literature; marsh; policy; poverty; problems; public; review; way
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- ar-22331
- author: Pich, Christine
- title: Out of Left Field: Social Inequality and Sports
- date: 2015-01-16
- words: 1108
- flesch: 34
- summary: First, the authors acknowledge that Marxist discussion towards sports has been quite critical – for instance, by dismissing it as a spectacle – and while the authors encourage such critical analysis, they also argue that sports has the potential to be a site of transformation where it could encompass leisure, pleasure, and social cohesion. 428 | Neoliberalism and the Degradation of Education Book Review Out of Left Field: Social Inequality and Sports by Gamel Abdel-Shehid and Nathan Kalman-Lamb.
- keywords: analysis; athletes; authors; book; critical; economic; high; ideas; inequalities; inequality; key; literature; performance; social; sociological; sociology; sports; text; theoretical
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- ar-22332
- author: Fairbairn, Jordan
- title: Reconsidering Knowledge: Feminism and the Academy
- date: 2015-01-16
- words: 1162
- flesch: 31
- summary: The seven substantive chapters in the book deal with one or more of three central themes: 1) the importance of feminist knowledge production; 2) challenges posed by neoliberal approaches to education and university corporatization; and 3) feminist scholarship as a form of activism and/or resistance to the increasingly corporate university environment. The lectures were held with the aim of “refocusing the lens on feminist knowledge in the academy” (15).
- keywords: academy; activism; book; chapter; child; collection; contribution; feminist; focus; important; knowledge; neoliberalism; politics; production; research; review; scholarship; themes; universities; university; women
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- ar-22333
- author: Garrod, J.Z.
- title: Imperial Canada Inc.: Legal Haven of Choice for the World
- date: 2015-01-16
- words: 1527
- flesch: 50
- summary: Pages: 1-244. Reviewed by J.Z. Garrod1 Imperial Canada Inc. begins with a very simple question: why are 75 percent of the world’s mining corporations registered in Canada? The support of global mining corporations through a ‘made-in- Canada’ propaganda offensive through the education system, in which these corporations provide funding, advertising, and other philanthropic activities, including the development of provincial science curriculums; 6.
- keywords: book; canada; canadian; corporations; deneault; economy; global; history; imperial; imperialism; inc; industry; legal; mining; new; political; practices; press; quebec; sacher; sector; state; studies; transnational; university; world
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- ar-22334
- author: Santos, Madalena
- title: Paved With Good Intentions: Canada
- date: 2015-01-16
- words: 1233
- flesch: 32
- summary: In their view, humanitarian NGOs provide assistance for short periods of relief efforts such as during natural disasters, for example, while development NGOs try to alter the fundamental ways in which societies are organized. They distinguish between development NGOs and humani- tarian NGOs, although they devote less space to the latter.
- keywords: authors; barry; book; canada; canadian; development; global; goals; good; government; humanitarian; intentions; jay; neoliberal; ngos; oja; policies; poverty; projects; shaw; social; south; work
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- ar-22335
- author: Joy, Amanda
- title: Resisting the State: Canadian History Through the Stories of Activists
- date: 2015-01-16
- words: 1068
- flesch: 45
- summary: Scholars of Canadian history or activism may find Neigh’s personal approach to these subjects a refreshing change from a more top-down history, while remaining accessible to social justice activists providing insights from prior generations. Book Review: Resisting the State | 443 Book Review Resisting the State: Canadian History Through the Stories of Activists, by Scott Neigh.
- keywords: activist; anti; approach; book; canadian; chapter; history; movements; neigh; organizing; people; racism; review; social; state; stories; work
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- ar-22336
- author: Speed, Shannon T.
- title: Yellow Ribbons: The Militarization of National Identity in Canada
- date: 2015-01-16
- words: 1139
- flesch: 34
- summary: In Yellow Ribbons: The Milita- rization of National Identity in Canada, McCready sets out to contextualize the cultural “shift” of an increasingly militarized Canada as reflected in Canadian national identity. Overall, McCready offers a descriptive and unapologetically critical look at the militariza- tion of Canadian national identity.
- keywords: author; book; canada; canadian; chapter; cultural; identity; literature; mccready; militarism; militarization; military; national; neoliberalism; practices; productions; ribbons; support; yellow
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- ar-22337
- author: Henry, Aaron
- title: The New Old World
- date: 2015-01-16
- words: 1372
- flesch: 51
- summary: The primacy Anderson accords between productive and vibrant intellectual thought underscores his preoccupation with the declining intellectual culture that has taken hold of Europe today. Anderson’s primary argument is that Europe has now entered a period of economic, political, social, and cultural decline.
- keywords: analysis; anderson; book; conclusion; cultural; decline; economic; europe; historical; history; intellectual; left; new; old; political; politics; review; social; studies; technocratic; text; world
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- ar-22389
- author: Fanelli, Carlo; Shields, John
- title: The Paradox of Low-Wage Work
- date: 2016-01-07
- words: 1603
- flesch: 35
- summary: Sharing parallels with the processes so vividly described by Marx long ago, contributors to this volume of Alternate Routes critically deconstruct the paradox of low wage work under neoliberal capitalism. A warm thank you and well wishes to Priscillia Lefebvre who has served in a number of roles since 2010, Jordy Cummings who served as interventions editor since 2014, and Rebecca Schein who served as book reviews co-editor for this volume, for their time and commitment to critical social research as they move on to new avenues of their work.
- keywords: accumulation; administration; alternate; book; capitalism; carlo; class; critical; diane; economic; editor; experiences; fanelli; interventions; john; journal; labour; living; low; marx; neoliberal; noonan; paradox; politics; precarity; public; relations; research; reviews; routes; ryerson; shields; social; stephanie; toronto; university; volume; wage; wage work; work; worker; working
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- ar-22390
- author: Luce, Stephanie
- title: Raising Wages
- date: 2016-01-07
- words: 3801
- flesch: 67
- summary: Low wages and inequality are not just a problem for low wage workers. Whereas 20, or even 10 years ago, we heard that raising wages would lead to job loss and inflation, today, tech billionaires to the International Monetary Fund are worried about low wages and the impact of growing inequality on the macro-economy.
- keywords: activists; campaigns; cities; city; companies; countries; demands; economy; employees; example; fact; fast; federal; food; hanauer; higher; hours; inequality; introduction; jobs; labor; laws; living; living wage; low; luce; minimum; movement; new; occupy; possible; poverty; precarious; raise; service; states; strikes; struggle; time; u.s; union; wage; walmart; way; workers; years; york
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- ar-22391
- author: Jonna, R. Jamil; Bellamy Foster, John
- title: Marx’s Theory of Working-Class Precariousness – And Its Relevance Today
- date: 2016-01-07
- words: 9348
- flesch: 50
- summary: Marx, Braverman, Reserve Army of Labor, Precarious, Precariat In the last decade and a half the concept of worker precariousness has gained renewed currency among social scientists (e.g. Barbier, 2004; Vosko, 2000; Fudge and Owens, 2006). Most investigators define worker precariousness by reference to what workers lack: access to work; protection from arbitrary firing; possibility for advancement; long- term employment; adequate safety; development of new skills; adequate income; and union representation (see Standing, 2011, 10).
- keywords: accumulation; active; analysis; army; bourdieu; braverman; capital; capitalist; century; class; class precariousness; concept; conditions; countries; crisis; development; domestic; economic; economy; employment; engels; england; europe; existence; exploitation; factory; foster; general; global; growth; harry; higher; human; hymer; ilo; increase; industrial; industry; international; jobs; jonna; kalleberg; labor; labor army; latent; law; life; living; london; long; making; manufacture; marx; marxian; means; modern; monopoly; monthly; morris; new; notion; organization; pauperism; pauperized; percent; population; power; precariat; precarious work; precariousness; press; production; proletariat; relation; relative; reserve; reserve army; review; rural; sectors; small; social; stagnant; states; struggle; surplus; system; temporary; terms; theory; time; today; u.s; united; university; vast; wages; war; william; women; workers; working; working class; world; years; york
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- ar-22392
- author: Livingstone, D.W.
- title: Exploitation, Stagnant Wages and Underemployment in Advanced Capitalism: A Canadian Perspective
- date: 2016-01-07
- words: 3130
- flesch: 42
- summary: For employers, having an ample supply of qualified workers to employ for varying amounts of time and skill use with high intensity of effort is central to profit maximization. The fact that an oversupply of qualified workers is now essential to maintain levels of exploitation and reproduction of advanced capitalism is rarely hinted at.
- keywords: advanced; basic; briefly; canada; canadian; capitalism; class; d.w; e.g.; education; effort; employers; exploitation; force; forthcoming; gap; goods; human; intensity; jobs; knowledge; labour; learning; livingstone; measures; people; percent; perspective; precarious; production; prospects; qualified; recent; requirements; skill; social; stagnant; struggle; theory; time; toronto; underemployment; university; use; utilization; wages; workers
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- ar-22393
- author: McBride, Stephen; Muirhead, Jacob
- title: Challenging the Low Wage Economy: Living and Other Wages
- date: 2016-01-07
- words: 11318
- flesch: 54
- summary: Various social and political forces have pushed for policies to address issues of low wages and poverty. It opens with an historical overview of efforts to address low wages that touches on sectoral councils in the U.K, and the Awards system in Australia.
- keywords: american; average; awards; bargaining; basic; benefits; bernstein; british; businesses; campaigns; canada; canadian; centre; chicago; city; collective; commission; common; conditions; councils; countries; coverage; development; economic; economy; effect; employers; employment; example; figart; figure; floor; germany; global; government; human; impact; income; industrial; inequality; international; issue; jobs; journal; kingdom; labour; level; linneker; living wage; london; low; low wage; luce; manning; market; minimum wage; model; movement; municipal; municipality; national; neoliberal; neumark; new; number; oecd; ordinances; organized; overall; particular; pay; percent; policies; policy; political; pollin; potential; poverty; precarious; press; public; rates; real; relations; research; response; result; schulten; sector; set; social; states; statutory; statutory minimum; struggle; system; terms; time; trade; union; united; university; wage; wage campaigns; wage economy; wage movement; wage policy; wage work; wage workers; wills; work; workers; working; world
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- ar-22394
- author: Lewchuk et al., Wayne
- title: The Precarity Penalty: How Insecure Employment Disadvantages Workers and Their Families
- date: 2016-01-07
- words: 7593
- flesch: 53
- summary: : This paper examines the social and economic effects of precarious employment in the Greater Toronto-Hamilton area. They also suggest that workers in precarious employment are more likely to experience social isolation.
- keywords: age; benefits; career; categories; category; characteristics; children; communities; data; earnings; economic; employment; employment relationship; et.al; face; families; family; form; friend; future; group; household; income; insecure; jobs; labour; life; likely; living; low; market; married; new; number; penalty; pepso; percentage; precarious; precarious employment; precarity; prospects; racialized; relationship; report; research; sample; secure; secure employment; security; self; social; source; standard; struggle; survey; table; temporary; term; time; toronto; u.s; uncertainty; university; wages; white; women; workers; working; young
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- ar-22395
- author: Hannan, Charity-Ann; Bauder, Harald; Shields, John
- title: ‘Illegalized’ Migrant Workers and the Struggle for a Living Wage
- date: 2016-01-07
- words: 9310
- flesch: 47
- summary: To improve the wages of low-wage workers, members of unions, community groups, activists, and support coalitions have launched living wage campaigns in cities in the USA, UK and, more recently, Canada. A review of the literature shows that living wage campaigns have not been very successful in achieving their broad goals while at the same time protecting low-waged illegalized migrant workers.
- keywords: access; agenda; angeles; arrest; bauder; bergos; campaign; canada; canadian; cities; citizenship; city; community; conditions; decades; deportation; development; economic; economy; employers; employment; example; global; growth; hearn; holgate; illegal; immigrants; immigration; impact; industrial; institute; international; jobs; journal; labour; lack; law; legal; levels; literature; living; living wage; london; los; lowwage; lowwage workers; luce; market; migrant; migrant workers; movement; neoliberal; new; ordinances; organization; organizing; pay; policies; policy; political; pollin; population; poverty; precarious; precarity; press; program; protection; public; regularization; relations; review; reynolds; rights; sanctuary; sassen; schierup; services; situation; smith; social; society; status; strategies; struggle; studies; support; tapia; temporary; terms; tfw; toronto; turner; undocumented; union; united; university; urban; vulnerable; wage campaigns; wage canada; wage movement; wages; wills; workers; working
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- ar-22396
- author: Gottfried et al., Keren
- title: Paving Their Way and Earning Their Pay: Economic Survival Experiences of Immigrants in East Toronto
- date: 2016-01-07
- words: 7820
- flesch: 50
- summary: Precarious informal work: those who work informal jobs (self employment or cash work) and report they ’cannot make ends meet’ each month; and, c. Workplace violations: those who work fulltime but where at least one employment standard was not being met.9 The survey of this East Toronto enclave uncovered evidence that a large proportion of this population was struggling to make ends meet and working in precarious, insecure work. Again, ethnicity and English proficiency level appear to be driving the dependent variable of insufficient employment and involvement in precarious informal work, though only English language level appears to be driving the existence of workplace violations for those with fulltime jobs.
- keywords: ability; activity; akter; analysis; bangladeshi; canada; canadian; cash; challenges; chinese; class; communities; community; conditions; data; east; economic; economy; eds; employment; enclave; ends; english; ethnicity; family; force; forms; fulltime; gender; global; good; half; health; high; hours; household; immigrant; immigration; income; informal; institute; jobs; labour; labour market; language; levels; lewchuk; likely; living; low; market; neoliberal; newcomers; ontario; outcomes; overall; oxford; pay; policy; poor; population; poverty; precarious; precarious work; precarity; press; proficiency; public; regression; report; respondents; results; rights; sample; services; shields; skills; social; standards; statistics; struggle; survey; toronto; university; variables; violations; vulnerable; wages; way; williams; women; work; workers; working; workplace
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- ar-22397
- author: Nichols, Leslie
- title: Lived Experiences of Unemployed Women in Toronto and Halifax, Canada Who Were Previously Precariously Employed
- date: 2016-01-07
- words: 8051
- flesch: 53
- summary: The first finding is related to the erosion of state infrastructure: There is a lack of supports for unemployed women workers, and they also face difficulties owing to a lack of supports extended through social programs and supports in the areas of health care, childcare, retraining, and reentering the labour market. Dr. Nichols' research focuses on the social conditions of women in Canadian society through feminist theory and methods, with a focus on women workers in Canada.
- keywords: access; analysis; approach; benefits; canada; canadian; care; children; different; employment; experiences; financial; future; gender; halifax; hayes; health; hours; household; identities; identity; impacts; income; individuals; insurance; intersectionality; job; jobs; journal; labour; lack; lived; living; market; methods; months; multiple; need; neoliberal; new; nichols; number; participants; policies; policy; precarious; precarious employment; press; relationships; research; service; shields; social; society; standard; state; statistics; struggle; studies; study; support; theory; time; toronto; townson; unemployed; unemployed women; university; wages; women; work; workers; working; years
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- ar-22398
- author: Mirlees, Tanner
- title: Reality TV’s Low-Wage and No-Wage Work
- date: 2016-01-07
- words: 9861
- flesch: 53
- summary: But just as the one-sided rendering of “role model” precariats as hyper- exploited risk a “sense that there is no way out,” overlook the capacity of workers to collectively “contest” and “resist,” and gloss over “countervailing possibilities” (de Peuter, 2014, 365), stock descriptions of reality TV workers as dupes or pawns fail to address how these workers possess the collective capacities for understanding and changing their circumstances, possibly for the better. So, there is an emerging international effort to unionize reality TV workers, and some small victories.
- keywords: actors; agreement; american; article; august; benefits; big; cast; classification; cohen; commodities; communication; companies; company; conditions; content; contestants; contract; control; corporations; costs; creative; cultural; demand; different; economy; employment; entertainment; episode; example; exchange; experience; exploitation; footage; fordist; guild; industries; industry; interns; internship; jobs; labour; life; line; living; low; making; materials; maximize; media; minimum; model; networks; new; non; opportunity; owners; participants; participation; pay; people; peuter; political; post; power; precarious; precarious work; process; producers; production; profits; programming; programs; publicity; reality; reality tv; relations; research; rights; ross; scenes; scripted; season; sector; self; shows; story; strike; struggle; studios; talent; tasks; television; terms; time; tv networks; tv owners; tv production; tv shows; tv studios; tv workers; union; unionized; unpaid; wage; wage work; way; wga; win; work; workers; writers; wyatt; york
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- ar-22399
- author: McDermott, Patricia
- title: Finally the Right to Strike: But What About Organizing?
- date: 2016-01-07
- words: 8322
- flesch: 51
- summary: Employees covered by labour legislation are protected by a further set of employee rights, such as unfair labour practices and the right to retain their status as employees while on strike and thus have the right to their job back within certain time parameters. Unfortunately there is little hope of avoiding extensive litigation now that the array of Charter rights for unions under 2(d) seem almost fully in place.
- keywords: accepted; act; adell; alberta; association; bargaining; c.l.e.l.j; canada; canadian; case; certification; cfa; charter; clear; collective; constitutional; court; decision; definition; dickson; dispute; economic; employees; employer; essential; essential services; ewing; federation; freedom; fundamental; government; health; ilo; international; issue; judge; justified; labour; law; legal; legislation; living; new; notes; ontario; organizing; para; precarious; process; psesa; public; question; reference; relations; right; rwdsu; s.1; s.2(d; saskatchewan; scc; services; sfl; society; standards; strike; struggle; toronto; trade; trial; trilogy; tuaa; union; wages; wilson; work; work legislation; workers; workplace
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- ar-22400
- author: Wells, Don
- title: Living Wage Campaigns and Building Communities
- date: 2016-01-07
- words: 4749
- flesch: 60
- summary: They focus on persuading individual employers to pay their employees a Living Wage, on getting city councils to adopt Living Wage policies for municipal employees, on mobilizing neighborhood business associations to adopt Living Wages, and on negotiating Living Wages as part of local employment provisions in “Community Benefit Agreements” with developers and officials building public infrastructure projects in the community (Galley, 2015). 236 | Precarious Work and the Struggle for Living Wages adopt a Living Wage, New Westminster, B.C. became the first Canadian city to adopt a Living Wage for its municipal employees, and Vancouver City Council recently voted unanimously for a Living Wage for city employees.
- keywords: administration; anti; benefits; block; building; campaigns; canada; canadian; centre; children; city; cleaners; communities; community; contract; costs; council; employers; employment; families; government; hamilton; higher; hour; housing; income; jobs; labour; levels; living; living wage; local; low; lower; mcmaster; minimum; minimum wage; new; ontario; organizations; parents; pay; policies; policy; politics; poor; poverty; precarious; private; public; school; social; struggle; support; time; toronto; union; university; wage; wage campaigns; way; workers; years
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- ar-22401
- author: Cummings, Jordy
- title: Rethinking Precarity and Capitalism: An Interview with Charlie Post
- date: 2016-01-07
- words: 2584
- flesch: 49
- summary: This is the only road to the revival of workers powers today. Clearly, the percentage of industrial workers has fallen – as it has since the 1890s as a result of mechanization and a rising rate of surplus-value.
- keywords: academic; benanav; capitalism; class; employment; faculty; golden; industrial; inventory; labor; like; logistics; long; low; movement; new; organization; organizing; period; political; potential; power; precarious; precarity; rate; recognition; sector; social; state; systems; time; union; value; wage; warehouse; workers; working; workplace; years
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- ar-22402
- author: Caraway, Brett
- title: Recomposing the Casual Class in Precarious Times
- date: 2016-01-07
- words: 5119
- flesch: 44
- summary: The lack of security among precarious workers has contributed to rising income inequality and social unrest in many OECD countries (Law Commission of Ontario, 2012). Organizing precarious workers: Workers’ centres open their doors.
- keywords: accumulation; action; analysis; article; authors; average; canada; canadian; capital; capitalist; casual; circuit; class; commodities; communication; conditions; creative; crisis; critique; cultural; data; economic; economy; employment; forms; global; greater; higher; ict; icts; income; industries; industry; information; jobs; keynesian; labor; like; living; long; magazine; marx; mobile; music; naics; national; new; number; people; peuter; policy; political; precarious; precarious employment; precarious work; precarity; production; rates; recent; research; sector; services; social; standard; struggle; technological; technologies; times; toronto; u.s; university; wages; workers; working; york
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- ar-22403
- author: Flisfeder, Matthew
- title: Digital Labour and the Internet Prosumer Commodity: In Conversation with Christian Fuchs
- date: 2016-01-07
- words: 4885
- flesch: 54
- summary: His work also figures quite prominently in your analysis of social media and social media labour. The Occupy Movement and Social Media in Crisis Capitalism, Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media, and several other books and articles on social media and critical media studies.
- keywords: advertising; age; audience; capitalism; commodity; communication; concept; crisis; critical; critique; cultural; culture; digital; digital labour; economic; economy; exploitation; facebook; fact; form; fuchs; ideology; internet; karl; labour; left; marx; marxist; media; new; non; political; politics; production; prosumer; question; scholars; social; social media; socialist; society; struggle; studies; theory; time; users; value; wages; work
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- ar-22404
- author: Garrett, Rebecca; Jackson, Liza Kim
- title: Art, Labour and Precarity in the Age of Veneer Politics
- date: 2016-01-07
- words: 6203
- flesch: 55
- summary: Our own genealogies include working out of traditions of participatory engaged direct cinema, community arts, and our long time involvement in overlapping liberation movements and decolonizing struggles, including: Afrikan decolonizing struggles, Palestinian resistance, Indigenous rights, prison abolition, punk anarchist feminism, disability activism, liberation theology, anti-imperialist, anti-apartheid, anti-poverty, housing, and squatting movements. Art works are bundled into portfolios and traded as futures.
- keywords: abundant; age; art; artists; arts; bodies; bourgeois; canada; canadian; capitalism; class; communities; community; complex; conditions; context; cultural; culture; debate; economic; economies; economy; exchange; fees; festival; free; future; garrett; gentrification; history; indigenous; individual; interactive; knowledge; labour; life; living; market; material; mayworks; media; money; n.d; nair; need; neoliberal; new; object; order; people; performative; philosophy; police; politics; poverty; power; practice; precarious; precarity; public; rebecca; relations; reproduction; resistance; situation; social; source; spaces; struggle; test#1; things; time; toronto; value; veneer; video; violence; wages; women; work; workers; working; world; writing; york
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- author: Feeley, Diane
- title: Detroit: Realities of Destructive Accumulation
- date: 2016-01-07
- words: 5312
- flesch: 60
- summary: The reality is that only 28 percent of city residents are employed within the city; of those working in the suburbs, 42 percent earn less than $15,000 annually. City workers and retirees were savaged by the bankruptcy.
- keywords: accumulation; african; american; annual; auto; bankruptcy; benefits; black; building; business; care; city; class; community; company; council; debt; defense; department; destructive; detroit; detroiters; downtown; economic; eviction; federal; ford; foreclosures; gentrification; health; homes; hour; housing; income; industry; interest; jobs; living; local; majority; mayor; metro; michigan; neighborhoods; new; number; officials; organizations; orr; people; percent; plan; plants; police; poverty; precarious; projects; public; rate; realities; residents; resources; revenue; schools; service; shutoffs; state; street; struggle; tax; today; uaw; union; wages; water; white; workers; working; year
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- ar-22406
- author: Coral, Mireille; Noonan, Jeff; Chislett, Paul
- title: Destructive Creation
- date: 2016-01-07
- words: 5528
- flesch: 59
- summary: Precarious workers are the victims of capitalist success in undermining historical gains. A UNION OF MUTUAL AID While precarious labour makes organizing even more dangerous, it is also a spur to creative resistance on the part of precarious workers.
- keywords: better; capitalism; cheri; chocolate; class; conditions; contractors; counter; creation; creative; crises; critical; destructive; economy; education; everyday; fear; freire; future; gas; global; horton; human; joan; jobs; labour; life; like; lives; living; lunch; means; minutes; needs; new; norma; pay; people; political; power; precarious; precarity; press; problems; production; real; safety; schumpeter; secret; shopper; social; station; store; stories; street; struggle; supervisor; system; time; university; wages; windsor; workers; working; york
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- ar-22407
- author: Mackin, Jennifer
- title: RECODING GENDER: WOMEN’S CHANGING PARTICIPATION IN COMPUTING
- date: 2016-01-07
- words: 763
- flesch: 47
- summary: This provided an appropriate conclusion for two running themes in the book, which were the use of a positive perspective to view the problem of women in computer science, and the coming together of women to tackle such hurdles. As Abbate argues, women were pulled into computer work as a result of the war effort.
- keywords: abbate; book; britain; computer; computing; gender; history; industry; participation; science; war; women; work; years
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- ar-22408
- author: Lee-An, Jiyoung
- title: COLONIZED CLASSROOMS: RACISM, TRAUMA AND RESISTANCE IN POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION
- date: 2016-01-07
- words: 990
- flesch: 33
- summary: Not only would this book benefit Aboriginal students and professors, but also non-Aboriginal students and professors who participate in native studies. Pages: 1-198. Reviewed by Jiyoung Lee-An1 In Colonized Classrooms: Racism, Trauma and Resistance in Post- Secondary Education, Sheila Cote-Meek raises a fundamental question: How do/can Aboriginal students and professors contend with ongoing colonization taking place in Canadian university classrooms?
- keywords: aboriginal; author; book; classrooms; colonized; cote; groups; meek; non; practices; professors; racism; students; university; violence
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- ar-22409
- author: Poon, Julie
- title: THE HEALING JOURNEY: INTIMATE PARTNER ABUSE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS IN THE LABOUR MARKET
- date: 2016-01-07
- words: 1186
- flesch: 36
- summary: Taken together, these findings provide strong support for DeRiviere’s argument that the impact of abuse places women at a disadvantage in the labour market extending beyond the duration of the intimate relationship itself. Pages: 1-199. Reviewed by Julie Poon1 The Healing Journey: Intimate Partner Abuse and Its Implications in the Labour Market seeks to provide insight into the challenges that women confront when leaving an abusive partner within the labour market as well as their everyday lives.
- keywords: abuse; analysis; book; chapter; deriviere; earnings; education; employment; healing; insight; intimate; journey; labour; market; outcomes; partner; training; violence; women; work
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- ar-22410
- author: D'Orazio, Dax
- title: THE OBAMA SYNDROME: SURRENDER AT HOME, WAR ABROAD
- date: 2016-01-07
- words: 1097
- flesch: 46
- summary: The main setback is its polemical nature that fails to consider how American policy might be different with Obama’s rivals in the White House, Democrat or Republican. One key point overshadows much of Ali’s book: the policies pursued by the Obama administration are not solely idealism constrained by the realities of American politics and an intransigent Republican Party.
- keywords: administration; ali; american; approach; book; campaign; care; change; credentials; foreign; health; left; obama; policy; political; politics; presidential; progressive; review; support; syndrome
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- ar-22411
- author: Careless, Jon
- title: THE SCIENCE AND HUMANISM OF STEPHEN JAY GOULD
- date: 2016-01-07
- words: 1064
- flesch: 44
- summary: Establishing this point is the central thrust of this informative, well-written account of Gould’s career as a preeminent “paleontologist, evolutionary theorist, historian of science, and prolific writer.” Gould’s most prominent challenge to orthodox ideas is his critique of the Modern Synthesis, “the neo-Darwinian theory based on the merger of Darwinian natural selection and Mendelian genetics,” which gained paradigmatic status in the 1950s (18).
- keywords: authors; book; changes; deterministic; evolutionary; gould; ideas; jay; modern; new; science; selection; social; stephen; synthesis; theories; theory; work; york
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- ar-22412
- author: Brisson-Boivin, Kara
- title: THE BLACK BOOK OF CANADIAN FOREIGN POLICY
- date: 2016-01-07
- words: 1158
- flesch: 48
- summary: A strength of Engler’s book is the inclusion of discussion questions, which does help readers to reflect on commonly held assumptions about Canadian international relations as well as the lessons learned in each case. In conclusion, this book has much to contribute to the field of Canadian international relations.
- keywords: actions; black; book; canada; canadian; case; colonialism; discussion; engler; foreign; global; international; new; policy; public; relations; section; states; studies; theoretical; world; york
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- ar-22413
- author: MacDonald, Katie M.
- title: AGRICULTURE AND FOOD IN CRISIS: CONFLICT, RESISTANCE, AND RENEWAL
- date: 2016-01-07
- words: 1027
- flesch: 46
- summary: Her primary research surrounds the political economy of food systems, value chains, and the Ontario pork industry. This system, centred upon tightly consolidated, large-scale, transnational corporations, is also responsible for squeezing all stages of food production – scarring the land, air, and people that are each an integral part of this same system.
- keywords: agriculture; book; crisis; economic; feed; food; global; issues; katie; land; magdoff; new; number; policy; political; production; resistance; scale; system; tokar; work
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- ar-22414
- author: Wallis, Allison
- title: MR. BIG: EXPOSING UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATIONS IN CANADA
- date: 2016-01-07
- words: 1326
- flesch: 29
- summary: Book Review: Mr. Big | 347 MR. Once the target has become involved in the fabricated criminal organization, undercover operatives, posing as crime bosses, suggest that criminal charges or suspicions of guilt can be disappeared under the condition that she or he fully discloses to Mr. Big the details of her or his involvement in the crime.
- keywords: authors; big; book; brockman; canadian; court; criminal; evidence; investigative; justice; keenan; legal; moral; operatives; risk; technique; use
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- ar-22416
- author: Fanelli, Carlo; Tufts, Steve
- title: Austerity Urbanism and the Social Economy
- date: 2017-02-03
- words: 2471
- flesch: 29
- summary: Seeing the problems of cities as part of this broader shift towards austerity urbanism, however, is valuable because it reveals the larger political and economic drivers of these problems that go beyond more particular issues such as antipathy towards taxes, over-spending or the salaries of municipal workers. Of course, manifestations of austerity urbanism vary across diverse contexts.
- keywords: age; alternate; articles; austerity; austerity urbanism; brenner; bryan; capital; carlo; cities; city; condition; crisis; economy; editorial; employment; evans; fanelli; forms; housing; interventions; issue; javascript; jeff; john; journal; labour; living; marx; neoliberalism; new; noonan; policy; public; routes; services; shields; social; social economy; special; steve; toronto; tufts; university; urbanism; work
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- ar-22417
- author: Lowe, Sophia; Richmond, Ted; Shields, John
- title: Settling on Austerity: ISAs, Immigrant Communities and Neoliberal Restructuring
- date: 2017-02-03
- words: 10115
- flesch: 45
- summary: However, some respondents felt that the advocacy efforts were not always strategic, and were too often reactive and overly focused on settlement sector funding. This paper examines the state of immigrant settlement services delivered by nonprofit providers in the current period of government imposed austerity.
- keywords: accountability; advocacy; agencies; approach; austerity; baines; canada; canadian; capacity; centre; challenges; changes; citizenship; coia; collaboration; communities; community; competition; control; current; cuts; delivery; development; economic; economy; employment; end; et.al; evans; experiences; federal; focus; funders; funding; good; government; greater; groups; harper; immigrant; immigrant settlement; immigration; immigration policy; impact; important; integration; international; interviews; isas; issues; journal; key; labour; limited; long; model; needs; neoliberal; neoliberalism; new; newcomers; nonprofit; npm; number; ontario; organizations; paper; past; period; planning; policies; policy; political; politics; press; process; programs; providers; provision; public; research; resources; respondents; restructuring; richmond; role; sector; services; settlement; settlement sector; settlement services; settling; shields; significant; social; society; staff; state; success; support; system; term; toronto; university; urbanism; value; way; welfare; work; workers; working; years
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- ar-22418
- author: Rudman, Debbie L.; Aldrich, Rebecca M.; Grundy, John; Stone, Melanie; Huot, Suzanne; Aslam, Awish
- title: You Got to Make the Numbers Work: Negotiating Managerial Reforms in the Provision of Employment Support Service
- date: 2017-02-03
- words: 10253
- flesch: 43
- summary: Yet, as a growing body of critical social policy scholarship demonstrates, the adoption of NPM, as well as activation measures, can also be viewed as attempts to discipline managers, service providers, and clients’ conduct in ways consistent with neoliberal rationalities (Brodkin 2011; Soss et al. 2011). These effects include work intensification for service providers; reconfiguration of the relation between service providers, funders, and clients; and heightened insecurity for service providers and service users.
- keywords: accountability; activation; approach; associated; austerity; brodkin; cams; canada; canadian; case; clients; critical; data; delivery; demonstrate; disciplinary; discretion; economy; effects; email; employment; employment service; example; federal; findings; government; governmentality; grundy; ilcan; implications; individual; intensification; job; kevin; labour; level; long; management; market; measures; meeting; metrics; ministry; needs; neoliberal; new; npm; numbers; ontario; organizations; outcomes; particular; people; performance; personal; policy; porter; practices; precarious; precarity; pressure; providers; provision; public; reforms; relationships; research; schram; sector; service; service delivery; service providers; service provision; skills; social; soss; street; study; support; system; techniques; term; time; training; unemployed; university; urbanism; use; wage; ways; work
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- ar-22419
- author: Evans, Bryan
- title: Alternatives to the Low Waged Economy: Living Wage Movements in Canada and the United States
- date: 2017-02-03
- words: 11001
- flesch: 55
- summary: There are a number of living wage campaigns currently in BC. A number of the smaller centres do not necessarily have full on living wage campaigns.
- keywords: acorn; actions; activists; advocacy; alberta; alternatives; austerity; benefits; calgary; campaign; canada; canadian; capital; ccpa; cities; city; class; coalition; communities; community; conditions; council; countries; country; day; different; economic; economy; employers; employment; families; fast; federation; fight; food; government; greater; higher; income; inequality; insurance; issue; jobs; john; justice; labour; large; law; laws; level; living wage; local; low; major; minimum wage; movement; municipal; n.d; national; new; non; nova; number; oecd; ontario; ordinances; organizations; payments; people; policy; political; post; poverty; private; protests; province; provincial; public; raise; report; scotia; sector; services; social; social economy; staff; states; strikes; success; support; tax; terms; time; u.s; union; united; urbanism; vancouver; vibrant; victoria; wage campaigns; wage employers; wage movement; wage policy; wages; walmart; welfare; westminster; workers; working; york
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- ar-22420
- author: Pin, Laura
- title: Does Participatory Budgeting Lead to Local Empowerment? The Case of Chicago, IL.
- date: 2017-02-03
- words: 8531
- flesch: 48
- summary: In 2010 PB Chicago was formed, and by 2016 the process had expanded to $6.2 million dollars of infrastructure funding in seven different wards. In addition, although many volunteers with the PB process had pre-existing connections to the aldermanic office, some residents reported in interviews becoming more comfortable and knowledgeable about contacting the alderman’s office, findings that are also supported by survey data collected by PB Chicago (Crum et al. 2013).
- keywords: aldermanic; aldermen; america; austerity; baiocchi; ballot; black; budget; budgeting; capital; case; changes; chicago; city; communicative; community; concerns; context; cost; decision; deliberative; demands; democracy; democratic; development; dimensions; economic; economy; elite; empowerment; example; forums; framework; funding; funds; ganuza; governance; government; housing; ideas; important; improvements; income; infrastructure; interviews; journal; lead; limited; lipman; local; local empowerment; machine; making; mayor; menu; money; municipal; needs; neighbourhood; neoliberal; neoliberalism; neoliberalization; new; north; office; paper; park; participants; participation; participatory; participatory budgeting; party; patronage; pb chicago; pb process; pb projects; peck; policy; political; politics; primacy; process; processes; projects; public; research; residents; rules; schools; scope; social; staff; state; support; terms; theodore; time; university; urbanism; use; volunteers; ward
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- ar-22421
- author: Noonan, Jeff; Watson, Josie
- title: Against Housing: Homes as a Human Life Requirement
- date: 2017-02-03
- words: 7825
- flesch: 50
- summary: While the development of social rights in the twentieth century ameliorated to some extent (in the wealthiest capitalist countries) the gross deprivations of the Industrial Revolution and Victorian capitalism, they do not contest the dynamics of the capitalist system as a whole, its prioritization of private profit of comprehensive and universal need satisfaction, or legitimate the mobilization of oppressed and exploited and alienated themselves to transform the structures that cause systematic need-deprivation in the first place (Wood 2002: 130-1). The report criticised Canada for the “absence of a national housing strategy; inadequate housing subsidy within the social assistance benefit; shortage of social housing units; increased evictions related to rental arrears; increased numbers of homeless and lack of homelessness prevention; shortage of emergency 150 | Austerity Urbanism and the Social Economy shelters; laws that penalize people for being homeless; lack of adequate housing for people with psycho-social and intellectual disabilities; and the poor housing conditions of Canada’s indigenous peoples” (Monsebraaten 2016).
- keywords: access; agency; appeal; approach; austerity; beings; better; canada; capitalist; case; causes; complex; conditions; conscious; control; crisis; cultural; deprivation; deprived; determinants; economic; economy; engels; forces; form; good; harm; health; homelessness; homes; housing; human; human beings; human life; individual; investment; lack; laws; life; living; market; material; mcmurtry; means; need; new; ontario; order; park; people; physical; point; political; private; problem; property; public; real; regent; requirement; residents; resources; rights; satisfaction; self; sense; shelter; social; social need; solution; space; stress; structural; struggle; study; system; toronto; universal; urbanism; value; way; working
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- ar-22422
- author: Hamel, Pierre; Autin, Gregoire
- title: Austerity Governance and the Welfare Crisis in Montreal
- date: 2017-02-03
- words: 7795
- flesch: 56
- summary: In the face of what has been described in a schematic way, the picture of the fight against austerity measures in Montreal is faced with numerous structural and subjective constraints. Taking these several elements into account, can we better understand how social actors are able to face austerity policies and austerity measures?
- keywords: actors; approach; austerity; austerity governance; austerity measures; austerity urbanism; canada; canadian; case; city; collaboration; community; comparison; conditions; consequences; couillard; crisis; decisions; different; difficult; economic; economy; education; example; fact; federal; general; governance; government; hand; health; immigrants; impacts; income; jobs; labour; level; liberal; local; low; major; measures; model; montreal; municipalities; negative; neighborhoods; new; organizations; people; policies; policy; political; politics; population; position; possible; poverty; power; process; programs; provincial; public; quebec; reform; respect; respondents; restructuring; sector; services; situation; social; specific; state; system; terms; time; trade; unions; urbanism; welfare; welfare crisis; workers
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- ar-22423
- author: Keil, Roger
- title: Toronto Alles Uber: Being Progressive in the Age of Progressive Conservative Urbanism
- date: 2017-02-03
- words: 9668
- flesch: 48
- summary: Toronto Alles Uber | 193 with the condition for progressive politics than the ambitions of the city’s and region’s elites. Toronto Alles Uber | 201 Miller and stayed mostly on the outside of Rob Ford’s ill-fated right- populist regime.
- keywords: alles; austerity; austerity urbanism; boudreau; business; centre; century; change; cities; city; civic; class; coalition; community; conservative; context; core; corporate; course; creative; critical; david; democratic; downtown; economic; economy; election; elite; federal; ford; future; global; governance; governing; government; hall; hamel; hard; housing; inner; innovation; issues; john; john tory; justice; keil; kipfer; labour; left; life; like; local; long; making; market; mayor; mayor john; mayoral; mayoralty; middle; miller; modernization; municipal; neoliberalization; new; north; nowak; october; ontario; opportunity; paper; party; past; percent; period; place; planning; political; politics; populist; position; post; power; problems; progressive; progressive politics; progressivism; province; provincial; radical; real; recent; reform; regime; regional; right; rob; roll; september; sharing; shift; social; social economy; space; star; state; stuck; suburban; suburbs; subway; support; system; technological; technologies; technology; term; time; today; toronto; tory; tradition; transit; transportation; uber; university; urban; urbanism; valverde; voters; way; work; world; years; young
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- ar-22424
- author: Young, Douglas
- title: Redefining "Renewel" in Toronto's High-Rise Suburbs
- date: 2017-02-03
- words: 3967
- flesch: 50
- summary: In Toronto austerity as common sense shapes one approach to conceptualizing decline in high-rise suburbs and a very particular approach to their renewal. The amalgamation of seven municipal governments that created a new City of Toronto on January 1, 1998 was considered by many as an attack on the pre-amalgamation City of Toronto Council which had been a vocal opponent of the provincial government’s neoliberal “revolution” and a champion of social democratic urban policy.
- keywords: affordable; apartment; approach; austerity; board; buildings; century; city; common; community; decline; district; economy; everyday; funding; governance; government; high; housing; income; inner; keil; life; local; mimico; neighbourhood; neoliberal; neoliberalism; non; north; number; planning; policy; program; progressive; project; public; region; renewal; rental; research; revolution; rise; rise suburbs; roll; sector; sense; social; stock; suburban; suburbs; toronto; total; tower; united; university; urban; urbanism; w6cat; way; york; young
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- ar-22425
- author: Moyo, Otrude N.
- title: A Beautiful Community, But a Troubled City: Flint's Water Crisis
- date: 2017-02-03
- words: 4625
- flesch: 51
- summary: Prior to this, residents had complained about the foul smelling and horrid taste of Flint City water. Recently, I received a letter from the department of health and human services outlining that if I was pregnant and had children who had ingested Flint water for a particular period I may be eligible for some public assistance.
- keywords: american; austerity; beautiful; black; cities; citizens; citizenship; city; community; consumer; crisis; decision; economic; economy; emergency; financial; flint; flint city; flint water; government; human; impact; lead; league; lederman; like; lives; local; making; managers; market; means; michigan; neoliberal; neoliberalism; officials; people; policies; policy; political; politicking; politics; problem; public; racialization; residents; revenue; river; sharing; social; state; supply; switch; today; troubled; united; urbanism; water; water crisis
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- ar-22426
- author: Gallaher, Carolyn
- title: Do Efforts to Mitigate Gentrification Work? Evidence from Washington DC
- date: 2017-02-03
- words: 5555
- flesch: 57
- summary: Indeed, Congress (with the president’s approval) decided to put the city into receivership despite opposition from its mayor, city council, and a majority of its citizens. 4 In 1973 Congress passed the District of Colombia Home Rule Act, which gave the city the power to elect its own mayor and city council.
- keywords: act; affordable; apartment; associations; austerity; bill; buildings; buy; cities; city; condominium; congress; context; control; conversion; costs; council; d.c; developers; displacement; economy; efforts; example; gentrification; housing; income; justice; keynesian; low; market; need; neoliberal; neoliberalism; new; ownership; paper; people; policies; politics; post; price; process; profit; purchase; rental; rents; residents; right; sale; social; solution; springer; state; statute; tenants; topa; units; university; urbanism; use; vas; washington; work; years
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- ar-22427
- author: Attoh, Kafui; Mitchell, Don; Staeheli, Lynn A.
- title: The University in the City: The Campus as a Space of Dependence and Engagement in the Age of Austerity
- date: 2017-02-03
- words: 5359
- flesch: 50
- summary: Indeed, the conditions under which academics work as “productive labor” has grown increasingly alarming, especially as university administrators claim their institutions must face up to the new realities of “austerity.”4 In the U.S. the 1862 Morrill Land Grant Act authorized the selling of federal land to finance state universities and colleges; “land-grant” universities were mandated to support agricultural development in their states.
- keywords: administrators; austerity; berkeley; building; cambridge; campus; campuses; capital; city; college; community; community engagement; conditions; corporate; corporatization; course; cox; crisis; dependence; development; district; economic; economy; education; engagement; example; factory; faculty; fight; free; gcu; geography; hetherington; higher; initiatives; institutions; kerr; kind; knowledge; lawyer; legitimacy; like; marx; movement; national; new; people; place; political; press; public; radical; research; salford; sausage; sense; smith; social; space; speech; state; students; universities; university; urbanism; world; york; zones
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- ar-22429
- author: Marshall, Robert
- title: Escape from the Staple Trap. Canadian Political Economy after Left Nationalism
- date: 2017-02-07
- words: 2041
- flesch: 55
- summary: Of course, both Innisian and Marxian inspired Canadian political economy approaches varied greatly. The first school was Innisian-inspired and documented Canadian dependency on the United States.
- keywords: alternate; argument; book; british; canada; canadian; capitalist; class; control; critical; debates; dependency; economic; economy; facts; foreign; imperialist; journal; kellogg; left; national; nationalist; new; political; press; questions; research; routes; social; staples; state; theory; toronto; university; world
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- ar-22430
- author: Kingsmith, A.T.
- title: The Winter is Over: Writings on Transformation Denied 1989-1995
- date: 2017-08-11
- words: 1332
- flesch: 50
- summary: What Negri suggests—and this is the leap that his reading of the strike makes—is that the immaterial and interactive character of the labour performed in the service sector constitutes the global form of an increasingly interactive and even democratic form of production in a post- industrial or post-Fordist environment. In starting from the dual position that ‘blocking the circulation of commodities has been fundamental in the history of working-class insurgency’ and that ‘the sphere of circulation is no longer simply one movement in the total process of capitalist valourization, but the global form structures production itself,’ Negri argues that to confront capital in the sphere of circulation is to strike the metropolis—that fundamental vector of contemporary struggles ‘where life and work tend to pass over one another.’
- keywords: a.t; alternate; century; critical; form; journal; left; negri; new; post; production; research; routes; social; strike; struggles; transformation; twitter; war; winter; work; writings
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- ar-22434
- author: Neusiedl, Christoph
- title: Making Peace with the Earth
- date: 2017-08-14
- words: 1842
- flesch: 54
- summary: This war is fought, as Shiva explains, by multinational corporations (MNCs) and nation-states as their faithful vassals: “Governments mutate from welfare states to corporate states as they deregulate corporations and over-regulate citizens (...). Throughout the book and with a focus on India, Shiva explores the different yet interrelated wars being fought against the earth, the means of war applied by MNCs and the Indian state, and the human and non-human costs of it.
- keywords: alternate; book; climate; critical; deep; democracy; development; earth; farmers; free; indian; journal; justice; market; marketisation; means; mncs; new; order; peace; private; research; routes; sector; shiva; social; south; state; suicide; war; wars; water
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- ar-22435
- author: Farhan, Sara
- title: Gramsci on Tahrir: Revolution and Counter Revolution in Egypt
- date: 2017-08-11
- words: 2067
- flesch: 47
- summary: Relying on existing historiography on revolutionary Egypt as well as journalistic accounts and interviews with demonstrators and activists, Marfleet pens the accounts of the diverse composition of the movements. Welcomed additions to a course on contemporary Egypt, Gramsci on Tahrir provides both, a detailed expansion of theoretical Marxist theories and historical context to the contemporary events while Egypt reveals that the Tahrir movements were the beginning of a revolutionary process that is still underway.
- keywords: actors; alternate; beinin; brotherhood; composition; counter; critical; demonstrations; economic; egypt; egyptian; events; experience; gramsci; hegemonies; history; journal; level; marfleet; mass; movements; muslim; political; process; research; revolution; revolutionary; routes; smet; social; tahrir
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- ar-22436
- author: Ruiz-Chapman, Tania
- title: Just Work?: Migrant Workers’ Struggles Today
- date: 2017-08-11
- words: 1385
- flesch: 42
- summary: Struggles Today is a collection of articles edited by Choudry and Hlatshwayo that highlights the difficulties that migrant workers face around the world. As demonstrated throughout the collection migrant workers are subject to gross human rights violations compounded by the dynamics of racialization which construct migrant workers as less than human as compared to local populations.
- keywords: alternate; analysis; authors; book; chapters; choudry; collection; contributors; critical; foreign; hlatshwayo; journal; labour; migrant; neo; organizing; precarious; programs; research; rights; routes; social; use; workers
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- ar-22437
- author: Neusiedel, Christoph
- title: Making Peace with the Earth
- date: 2017-08-14
- words: 1842
- flesch: 54
- summary: This war is fought, as Shiva explains, by multinational corporations (MNCs) and nation-states as their faithful vassals: “Governments mutate from welfare states to corporate states as they deregulate corporations and over-regulate citizens (...). Throughout the book and with a focus on India, Shiva explores the different yet interrelated wars being fought against the earth, the means of war applied by MNCs and the Indian state, and the human and non-human costs of it.
- keywords: alternate; book; climate; critical; deep; democracy; development; earth; farmers; free; indian; journal; justice; market; marketisation; means; mncs; new; order; peace; private; research; routes; sector; shiva; social; south; state; suicide; war; wars; water
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- ar-22439
- author: Calnitsky, Naomi Alisa
- title: Cuba Beyond the Beach: Stories of Life in Havana.
- date: 2017-02-01
- words: 1298
- flesch: 44
- summary: Cuban street culture and its impact on female visitors also inform training for her students, before they might encounter the ubiquitous piropos and groseros, or flattering and aggressive remarks (57). The second chapter explores Cuban sound culture and the author is its keen anthropologist.
- keywords: alternate; author; book; canada; chapter; city; complexities; critical; cuban; cultural; culture; dubinsky; economy; havana; journal; karen; life; lives; new; play; present; relationship; research; routes; shopping; social; socialism; state; street; tone
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- ar-22440
- author: Wellum, Caleb
- title: Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis
- date: 2017-02-01
- words: 1371
- flesch: 49
- summary: The final chapters of Utopia or Bust pivot from appreciation to critique with essays on the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek and art scholar Borys Groys. Kunkel wrote the essays between 2010 and 2013 in the immediate aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and previously published each in either the London Review of Books, n + 1, or the New Statesmen.
- keywords: alternate; analysis; book; bust; capitalism; crisis; critical; economics; essays; financial; history; ideas; intellectual; journal; kunkel; marxist; present; research; routes; social; thought; utopia
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- ar-22441
- author: Del Fa, Sophie
- title: The Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity
- date: 2017-02-01
- words: 1454
- flesch: 57
- summary: In their last part entitled “The Methods of Movements” they ask a central question: “How can social movement researchers and social movements themselves reimagine solidarity?” We, as social researchers, have to bring research outside the university, be it about social movements or in any other fields of research.
- keywords: activists; activities; alternate; authors; book; critical; imagination; movements; project; radical; research; researchers; routes; sense; social; time; university; website
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- ar-22442
- author: Mirrlees, Tanner
- title: Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
- date: 2017-02-01
- words: 1515
- flesch: 52
- summary: Nagle casts the alt right as an emerging victor in the early years of an online battle with the Tumblr left, and explores how the alt-right crossed over from marginal anonymized websites into “mainstream public and political life” alongside Trump’s race for the presidency. Nagle might have better conceptualized the alt-right’s style as “pseudo-transgressive,” or, a superficially rebellious and resistant style that is substantively intertwined with the system in dominance that is capitalism and compliant with social class power.
- keywords: alt; alternate; book; critical; culture; internet; journal; left; media; movements; nagle; online; political; power; right; routes; social; style; today; transgressive; trump; tumblr; twitter; wars; white; wing
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- ar-22443
- author: Choudry, Aziz
- title: Indigenous Peoples As Subjects Of International Law
- date: 2018-02-05
- words: 1174
- flesch: 33
- summary: Marcelle Burns (Kamilaroi) interrogates the foundational work of Hugo Grotius and Francisco de Vitoria on the concept of society in the context of their contributions to shape an (Eurocentric) international legal order, and its use as a tool to exclude Indigenous Peoples from recognition as sovereign subjects within state regimes and international law. This is a timely collection which makes a substantive, significant contribution to move thinking beyond understandings of rights that are imprisoned in a taken-for-granted framework of liberalism and colonialism (see also D’Souza, 2018, on this) and assimilationist models developed by colonial states like Australia, Canada and others to accommodate claims for ‘recognition’ and ‘equality’ of Indigenous Peoples’ rights.
- keywords: alternate; book; chapter; critical; determination; domination; genocide; indigenous; international; journal; law; legal; nations; peoples; research; rights; routes; self; social; starblanket; state; watson
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- ar-22444
- author: Fanelli, Carlo; Potter, Garry
- title: 'A Work For the World and For Us'
- date: 2018-02-16
- words: 4106
- flesch: 35
- summary: A series of Interventions further confront issues of social inequality and social justice. These elements also suggest the need to explore more egalitarian forms of distribution and options for social change and social justice.
- keywords: alternate; amy; analysis; arendt; article; authors; book; canada; canadian; capitalism; carlo; carroll; caxaj; change; class; cohen; context; critical; critique; cross; democracy; economic; editors; evans; fanelli; future; garry; great; half; historical; hope; inequality; interventions; issues; javascript; journal; justice; keynes; labour; mark; market; marx; measures; neoliberal; neoliberalism; new; party; people; political; potter; relations; report; reproductive; research; resistance; review; routes; social; social inequality; social justice; spectre; state; structures; struggle; tcc; time; university; unpaid; way; women; work; world; young
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- ar-22445
- author: Duffy, Ann; Pupo, Norene
- title: Unpaid Work, Coercion and the Fear Economy
- date: 2018-02-16
- words: 8816
- flesch: 51
- summary: Here, the authors locate unpaid work historically by considering the direct physical force that underlies slavery and work within total institutions, and then analyze the contemporary subtle, indirect pressures exercised by hegemonic ideologies to sustain unpaid internships and unremunerated working days. Secondly, we argue that unpaid work is expanding in the current historical/economic context.
- keywords: activities; approach; attention; benefits; canadian; capitalist; care; children; class; coercion; coercive; community; compensation; complex; contemporary; context; direct; domestic; economic; economies; economy; education; efforts; employers; employment; example; exploitation; family; fear; fear economy; feminist; force; formal; forms; free; gender; global; growth; high; home; hours; household; household work; human; immigrant; important; inequality; internships; job; justice; labour; leave; little; market; nannies; national; neoliberal; new; order; particular; patterns; pay; political; power; practices; press; recent; recipients; regimes; relations; reproductive; research; review; rights; school; services; social; sociology; spectre; star; state; students; support; terms; time; toronto; training; university; unpaid; unpaid labour; unpaid work; voluntarism; volunteer; wage; ways; welfare; women; work; workers; workfare; working; york; young; youth
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- ar-22446
- author: Mandell, Nancy; Lam, Larry; Borras, Jana; Phonepraseuth, Janice
- title: Living on the Margins: Economic Security Among Senior Immigrants in Canada
- date: 2018-02-16
- words: 9958
- flesch: 55
- summary: For senior immigrants, income divergence tends to be most distinct among recent immigrants, disabled immigrants, older immigrants who arrived as seniors, and female migrants who live alone (Dalgleish, 2008; Preston, Kim, Mandell et al., 2013).6 Racialization shapes the economic security of senior immigrants (Preston et al., 2014, 2013).
- keywords: adult; age; aging; ale; barriers; benefits; canada; canadian; care; catalogue; challenges; children; class; community; course; data; different; disabled; early; earnings; economic; economic security; employment; experiences; families; family; female; food; gender; gis; government; government income; groups; health; high; housing; immigrants; immigration; incidence; income; individuals; inequality; insecure; interviews; iranian; justice; kim; labour; later; life; likely; living; low; mandell; margins; market; money; new; oas; older; older immigrants; participants; pendakur; pensions; people; percent; policy; poor; population; poverty; preston; private; punjabi; qpp; race; racial; recent; research; retirement; savings; secure; security; self; senior; senior immigrants; situations; social; social inequality; spanish; spectre; statistics; status; structural; support; time; toronto; unattached; university; vietnamese; vulnerability; vulnerable; women; work; years
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- author: Moreno, Karla Angelica Valenzuela; Shields, John; Drolet, Julie
- title: Settling Immigrants in Neoliberal Times: NGOs and Immigrant Well-being in Comparative Context
- date: 2018-02-16
- words: 9105
- flesch: 44
- summary: As noted, immigrant settlement service NGOs are operating in a difficult political and socio-economic environment (Szalai and Gobl, 2015). This is particulary evident in the growing role of nonprofits in social provision as illustrated in immigrant settlement services.
- keywords: able; accountability; acquisition; activities; actors; advocacy; agencies; america; anti; approach; austerity; bauder; broader; canada; canadian; case; cities; civil; communities; community; context; countries; country; courses; crisis; critical; cross; delivery; difficult; economic; eds; ethnic; europe; evans; france; funding; germany; global; government; groups; immigrant; immigrant integration; immigrant settlement; immigration; important; inequality; integration; issues; journal; justice; labour; language; local; market; measures; migrants; multiculturalism; national; need; neoliberal; neoliberalism; newcomers; ngos; nonprofit; north; oecd; organizations; oxford; paper; partnerships; policies; policy; political; populations; practices; press; private; process; programs; providers; provision; public; refugee; relationship; research; resources; right; role; salamon; sector; security; services; settlement; settlement services; shields; social; social justice; society; spectre; state; support; sweden; times; toronto; understanding; united; university; vol; way; welfare; work; working
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- ar-22448
- author: Cohen, Amy; Caxaj, Susana
- title: Bodies and Borders: Migrant Women Farmworkers and the Struggle for Sexual and Reproductive Justice in British Columbia, Canada
- date: 2018-02-16
- words: 9825
- flesch: 47
- summary: Based on insights gained in the field and through community-based research and advocacy efforts, this paper outlines what is currently known about women SAWP workers’ struggles to attain full reproductive justice. We conclude with a discussion on how migrant women creatively resist restrictions imposed upon them, and we make recommendations aimed at improving the experiences of women SAWP workers attempting to achieve reproductive justice in BC.
- keywords: ability; access; acts; advocacy; agricultural; agricultural workers; barriers; bodies; borders; british; canada; canadian; care; challenges; citizenship; columbia; community; conditions; control; discussion; employers; employment; encalada; everyday; experiences; face; factors; farms; farmworkers; fear; female; foreign; gender; gendered; government; grez; groups; health; health care; hennebry; human; inequality; information; international; issues; journal; justice; labour; lack; legal; limited; literature; mclaughlin; mexican; mexico; migrant; migrant agricultural; migrant farmworkers; migrant women; migrant workers; migration; officials; okanagan; ontario; oppression; overt; paper; participants; particular; policy; political; program; provincial; region; relationships; report; reproductive; reproductive health; reproductive justice; research; resistance; rights; risk; rules; sawp; sawp workers; seasonal; services; sexual; sexual health; sexuality; social; social justice; spectre; status; studies; study; temporary; treatment; unique; united; university; valley; women; workers; year
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- ar-22449
- author: Cross, Ruth; Warwick-Booth, Louise
- title: Neoliberal Salvation Through a Gendered Intervention: A Critical Analysis of Vulnerable Young Women’s Talk
- date: 2018-02-16
- words: 8850
- flesch: 54
- summary: This paper presents data from an evaluation which explored the impact of a gender-specific intervention designed to support young women (Project X). Project X sits within a wider agenda in UK policy that frames young women in certain ways which can be interpreted differently depending on contrasting perspectives.
- keywords: alcohol; analysis; approach; booth; brown; cat; centre; control; critical; cross; data; different; discourse; drinking; early; emily; engagement; evaluation; experiences; feminist; figure; focus; future; gendered; gill; girls; good; governance; groups; hanbury; health; imperative; individual; inequality; interpretation; intervention; jenna; journal; justice; life; london; neoliberal; new; normative; paper; people; perspective; policy; political; power; problems; project; research; resilience; resistance; risk; ronan; salvation; self; sharpe; social; society; specific; spectre; stories; story; structural; support; talk; university; vulnerability; vulnerable; warwick; women; worker; young; young women
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- ar-22450
- author: Chapman, Debra D.; Ruiz-Chapman, Tania; Eglin, Peter
- title: Global Citizenship as Neoliberal Propaganda: A Political-Economic and Postcolonial Critique
- date: 2018-02-16
- words: 8969
- flesch: 44
- summary: We make the case for a program of critical studies devoted to analyzing the features, sources, institutional carriers and uses of the concept of global citizenship as neoliberal propaganda serving to mystify young people’s understanding of their place in the world. (UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, 2012) “Education for global citizenship helps enable young people to develop the core competencies which allow them to actively engage with the world, and help to make it a more just and sustainable place.”
- keywords: alberta; april; bodies; borders; boundaries; british; canada; canadian; capitalism; cartesian; cartesian subject; case; chapman; citizenship; colonial; communities; concept; control; corporate; critical; critique; culture; david; death; decaro; deportation; detention; development; different; economic; eds; education; example; experience; experiential; fact; global; global citizenship; government; handbook; help; human; ibid; idea; imperialism; inequality; institutions; international; isin; isl; justice; land; learning; life; london; migrant; neoliberal; neoliberalism; new; new york; non; northern; order; paper; particular; people; peter; place; political; politics; power; practice; press; program; propaganda; rhetoric; rights; routledge; rygiel; schattle; science; self; service; social; society; south; space; spectre; state; students; studies; study; subject; subjectivity; teeple; toronto; undocumented; united; universal; universities; university; university press; use; values; white; work; world; york; young
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- ar-22451
- author: Baldus, Bernd
- title: Small Causes, Large Structures. A New Look at the Roots of Social Inequality in Human Societies
- date: 2018-02-16
- words: 7688
- flesch: 49
- summary: Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Sociology, Inequality This paper assumes that social inequality is one possible outcome of a fundamental social dilemma: how to distribute the results of collective, cooperative activities among the contributors. He has taught and published in the field of social inequality for more than 40 years.
- keywords: actions; american; baldus; better; causes; century; change; class; common; complex; cooperation; countries; course; current; different; distributive; durkheim; dynamics; early; economic; effects; engels; events; evidence; evolution; external; functional; growth; historical; history; human; important; income; independent; inequalities; inequality; inequality structures; journal; justice; large; laws; life; long; look; major; marx; material; modern; natural; new; non; opportunities; order; origins; pathways; people; percent; political; power; predictable; press; processes; public; rational; recent; relations; research; resources; result; review; rise; role; sciences; second; self; small; small causes; social; social inequality; societies; society; sociological; sociologists; sociology; spectre; spencer; states; structures; study; systems; theoretical; theories; theorists; theory; time; trust; u.s; understanding; universal; university; wealth; weber; world; york
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- ar-22452
- author: Carroll, William K.
- title: Rethinking the Transnational Capitalist Class
- date: 2018-02-16
- words: 7112
- flesch: 42
- summary: The same holds of course for national states, which have pursued regionalization strategies within blocs such as NAFTA and the EU. The latter is a tendency held in check by the continuing political power of national states and by the fact that the vast majority of the world’s capitalists – the 99% within the infamous 1% – in fact, are not transnationally invested.
- keywords: accumulation; agency; american; amsterdam; analysis; apeldoorn; capital; capitalist; capitalist class; carroll; china; chinese; class; communities; community; corporate; corporations; der; development; economic; economy; financial; formation; fractions; free; geopolitical; global; global capitalism; globalization; graaff; harris; heartland; hegemonic; hegemony; historical; hymer; industrial; inequality; integration; interests; international; investment; journal; justice; level; london; market; military; money; neoliberalism; network; new; north; organized; pijl; political; power; practices; press; process; production; project; regional; related; relations; robinson; school; sklair; social; society; south; spectre; state; structural; study; system; tcc; tendency; theory; thesis; tncs; tns; transnational; transnational capitalist; transnational class; van; world
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- ar-22453
- author: Jessop, Bob
- title: The World Market, ‘North-South’ Relations, and Neoliberalism
- date: 2018-02-16
- words: 8297
- flesch: 39
- summary: World market integration is a contradictory process. And, insofar as it decreases the power of the working class, it increases inequalities of income and wealth, strengthens the potential for overproduction and weak demand, and, as is now widely recognized in critical political economy, creates the potential for financialization and finance-dominated accumulation as a driving force of even The World Market, ‘North-South’ Relations, and Neoliberalism | 217 further – but destabilizing – world market integration.
- keywords: accumulation; africa; america; analysis; asia; aspects; capital; capital accumulation; capitalist; cases; china; colonies; competition; constraints; contradictions; countries; credit; crises; critique; dependent; derivatives; development; different; domestic; early; east; economic; economies; economy; engels; european; exchange; expansion; exploitation; financial; forces; foreign; forms; free; global; historical; history; important; industrial; industry; inequality; integration; international; jessop; justice; labour; latin; lawrence; local; london; markets; marx; mecw; mode; monetary; money; national; nature; neoliberalism; new; north; order; political; post; power; pre; press; primitive; process; production; profit; real; regime; relations; role; scale; shape; shifts; social; south; spaces; specific; spectre; states; studies; surplus; system; term; time; trade; uneven; value; variegated; varieties; wishart; world; world market
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- ar-22454
- author: Carpenter, Sandra
- title: Disability and Social Equality: The Centrality of Independent Living
- date: 2018-02-16
- words: 5030
- flesch: 57
- summary: 5 Inspired by the Ralph Nader consumer movement in the USA, in our case people with disabilities were reconceptualised as ‘purchasers’ of disability services and supports denoting more power over the quality of outcomes of those services and supports. They were social enterprises, and objective proof of both the equal capacity for self-determination on the part of people with disabilities and that the deepest problem we faced was not physical disability, but socially imposed barriers.
- keywords: alternatives; assistance; bloorview; boarding; canada; capacity; care; centres; cheshire; children; community; control; daily; disabilities; disability; disabled; equality; example; help; home; independent; institution; justice; kids; life; like; lives; living; medical; model; movement; need; new; parents; people; person; philosophy; physical; problem; professionals; regular; resources; right; school; self; services; social; society; spectre; support; things; time; toronto; years
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- ar-22455
- author: Graham, Mark; Woodcock, Jamie
- title: Towards a Fairer Platform Economy: Introducing the Fairwork Foundation
- date: 2018-02-16
- words: 4714
- flesch: 19
- summary: Our clicks tie us to the lives and livelihoods of platform workers, as much as buying clothes tie us to the lives of sweatshop workers. However, platform work goes significantly further, involving the act of a company or institution taking a function once performed by employees and outsourcing it to an undefined (and generally large) network of people in the form of an open call (Howe, 2006, 1).
- keywords: available; bargain; challenges; change; conditions; content; countries; criteria; different; digital; economy; eds; employment; example; fairer; foundation; gig; global; graham; heeks; http://faircrowd.work/unions-for-crowdworkers/frankfurt-declaration/; http://faircrowd.work/unions-for-crowdworkers/frankfurt-declaration/ http://faircrowd.work/unions-for-crowdworkers/frankfurt-declaration/; http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/what-is-fairtrade/what-fairtrade-does; http://www.publicseminar.org/2015/04/think-outside-the-boss; https://turkopticon.info/; https://www.viewpointmag.com/2017/09/20/far-seamless-workers-inquiry-deliveroo/; https://www.viewpointmag.com/2017/09/20/far-seamless-workers-inquiry-deliveroo/ https://www.viewpointmag.com/2017/09/20/far-seamless-workers-inquiry-deliveroo/; important; income; inequality; information; jobs; justice; labour; living; location; london; meatspace; new; online; platform; press; process; research; shaw; social; spectre; strategies; type; uber; wage; work; workers; working; world
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- ar-22456
- author: Ritterbusch, Amy E.
- title: The Quantitative Tactics Used to Delegitimize a Right to the City Social Justice Movement in Bogotá, Colombia
- date: 2018-02-16
- words: 5119
- flesch: 39
- summary: Siguiendo la misma premisa, con los comentarios que presentamos a continuación no pretendemos criticar la concepción de sociedad de los autores. Additionally, the authors focus primarily on the presentation of quantitative counter analyses to demonstrate how “la intervención pudo tener efectos positivos para la ciudad y la zona específica de influencia de El Bronx (the intervention could have had positive effects for the city and the specific zone of 264 | Social Inequality and the Spectre of Social Justice influence of ‘El Bronx),” a statement that can also be interpreted as politically motivated (Tobón and Zuleta, 2017, 6).
- keywords: analysis; andes; authors; bogotá; bronx; canal; cesed; citizens; city; colombia; communities; context; cpat; critical; data; de los; debate; department; destapando; document; drug; el bronx; fieldwork; focus; following; government; homeless; human; human rights; individuals; inequality; informe; injustice; intervention; justice; la olla; las; launch; los; members; methodological; methodologies; multiple; olla; paradigm; parces; police; political; public; qualitative; qualitative research; que; raid; report; research; response; rights; rigor; security; sense; shadow; sobre; social; social justice; spectre; tactics; team; terms; una; universidad; university; urban; violations; violence; work; world
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- ar-22457
- author: Bowman, Norah
- title: “The Elders Said if We Stop Fishing We Will Die, We Will No Longer Exist”: Hannah Arendt’s Black Holes, Canadian Corporate Mining Impunity, and Indigenous Narrative Resistance
- date: 2018-02-16
- words: 5539
- flesch: 49
- summary: The assumption that Canada is essentially humanitarian explains why external and internal analysis of Canadian foreign policy often presents Canadian corporate human rights violations as “confused, rooted in a misunderstanding of the region, or as a simple expression of our subordinate relationship to the United States” (Gordon and Webber, 2016, 3). Of the mining resources listed on the TSE, many are located on the homes of indigenous people living in colonial states.
- keywords: 2015; arendt; black; canada; canadian; canadian mining; case; ccm; citizenship; cmc; colonial; communities; community; consent; corporate; corporations; elders; environmental; evidence; exploitation; extractive; fish; fishing; global; government; guatemala; hannah; history; holes; honduras; human; human rights; humanitarian; impunity; indigenous; inequality; justice; lake; land; legal; local; members; metals; mining; moral; multiple; murder; nation; nazi; non; oblivion; ongoing; open; people; pity; problem; reconciliation; regimes; regulatory; report; resistance; rights; social; spectre; spill; spring; state; territory; trc; unceded; united; unwg; violations; violence; world
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- ar-22458
- author: Fioret, Cameron
- title: Against the Commodification of Water
- date: 2018-02-16
- words: 4318
- flesch: 55
- summary: Water qua water should be commonly owned and used by anyone, and it should only be excluded from others once it is used and not for reasons of commodification and profit- making. Water, treated as common property, would overcome the denial of water to those who cannot afford their water bills because the necessity of water for human life would be realized and placed above profit-making, and thus not denied on the basis of the ability to pay.
- keywords: ability; access; basic; bottled; california; collective; collective ownership; commodification; common; common ownership; detroit; earth; global; harmless; human; humanity; journal; life; moral; nations; natural; necessary; necessities; necessity; need; nestlé; order; original; ownership; people; percent; property; resources; responsibility; rights; risse; share; social; survival; use; water; world
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- ar-22459
- author: Baumtrog, Micheal D.
- title: Navigating a Necessary Inequality: Children and Knowledge-Based Injustice
- date: 2018-02-16
- words: 5294
- flesch: 52
- summary: (Fricker, 2007, 22-29).6 Recent research has pointed to the impact of child testimonial injustice in the medical field. Although it appears that both Canadian and American legal systems are making improvements to account for what is being called “the voice of the child” (Welder, 2000; Chong and Connolly, 2015), a gap still remains between studies of child testimony and legal practice (Brainerd and Reyna, 2012; Birnbaum, 2009:
- keywords: adult; age; capacity; case; central; certain; childhood; children; collective; credibility; credible; decision; default; deficit; development; epistemic; epistemic injustice; example; experience; fact; fricker; gender; hermeneutical; identity; individual; inequality; injustice; interpretive; knowledge; legal; necessary; number; oxford; paper; philosophical; practical; prejudice; question; race; reasoning; research; resources; sexual; social; spectre; stereotypes; term; testimonial; testimony; understanding; unjust; use; ways
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- ar-22460
- author: Ferguson, Bruce
- title: Re-Thinking Struggle: Starting From Story
- date: 2018-02-16
- words: 5676
- flesch: 50
- summary: Our measure of medium term success would attempt to bring the average statistics of Indigenous people to the same rates as the average Canadian and that would indeed be a success that both Canadians and ourselves could celebrate. Challenges to the existence of Indigenous peoples in Canada relate more to dispossession rather than genocide (although cultural genocide could be a result).
- keywords: 1970s; allies; arguments; black; canada; canadian; change; colonial; communities; community; critique; experience; history; human; identity; identity politics; indigenous; indigenous struggle; inequality; justice; knowledge; language; life; lives; long; mainstream; militant; movement; nation; nature; need; people; philosophical; political; politics; position; problem; question; resistance; resurgence; revolution; right; self; small; social; sources; spectre; stories; story; struggle; system; term; thinking; thinking struggle; thought; time; today; understanding; western; white; world
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- ar-22462
- author: Marshall, Robert
- title: Automating Inequality. How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish the Poor
- date: 2018-02-05
- words: 1906
- flesch: 58
- summary: The technologies of monitoring, regulating and policing not only includes digital tools; but, also includes new discourses, belief systems and frameworks. Pages: 1-260. Reviewed by Robert Marshall1 Virginia Eubanks’ book follows in the footsteps of earlier polemics documenting the policing of poverty in the United States.2 Unlike these previous studies, and building upon her own prior work (2012), Eubanks focuses on the role of information technologies as a tool for increased monitoring and surveillance of social assistance recipients in the United States.
- keywords: administrators; alternate; book; class; code; critical; data; democracy; digital; eubanks; impacts; inequality; journal; new; politics; poor; poorhouse; poverty; press; public; research; risk; routes; services; social; state; systems; tools; united; university; welfare; york
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- ar-22463
- author: Mooers, Colin
- title: Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela; Decolonizing Dialectics
- date: 2018-02-05
- words: 2723
- flesch: 44
- summary: There are currents within both feminist and anti-racist Marxism today that specifically reject the idea that capitalism can be understood in terms of class relations at the point of production. Equally problematic is the idea that class agency requires a force or will originating outside these social positions.
- keywords: alternate; bolivarian; capitalism; chavez; ciccariello; class; colonial; colonialism; communal; communes; concept; critical; dialectics; dussel; economic; exploitation; fanon; forms; gender; government; idea; internal; journal; labour; land; maduro; maher; maizal; marxism; national; new; people; political; popular; pueblo; race; radical; relations; research; routes; social; state; twitter; venezuela; years
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- ar-22464
- author: MacLellan, Duncan
- title: Unions and the City: Negotiating Urban Change
- date: 2019-01-18
- words: 939
- flesch: 49
- summary: The ongoing ability of child care sector unions to reach across to community groups and apply their combined pressure will demonstrate how important these issue are to building a society that aims to benefit its citizens more broadly. This volume arrives at a time of complex Canadian and American trade issues, and this work reminds us that many unions are struggling to maintain what they have worked tirelessly to achieve for their members and to stop the erosion of these hard fought employee gains.
- keywords: book; care; case; chapters; child; city; critical; film; green; important; jobs; labour; new; social; toronto; unions; urban; york
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- ar-22465
- author: Zaman, Habiba; Habib, Sanzida
- title: Migration of Bengalis to Canada: History, Settlement, Identity and Social Justice
- date: 2019-03-19
- words: 56
- flesch: 29
- summary: Migration of Bengalis to Canada | 7 8 | Migration of Bengalis to Canada Migration of Bengalis to Canada | 9 10 | Migration of Bengalis to Canada Migration of Bengalis to Canada | 11 12 | Migration of Bengalis to Canada Migration of Bengalis to Canada | 13 14 | Migration of Bengalis to Canada
- keywords: migration
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- ar-22483
- author: Fanelli, Carlo ; Luce, Stephanie
- title: Austerity Without End
- date: 2019-08-06
- words: 2637
- flesch: 53
- summary: Whereas public sector union density has stayed relatively consistent from the mid-1980s to early-2000s, hovering around 72 percent, total Canadian private sector density fell from 26 percent to just over 18 percent. The result has been declining union density in most industrialized countries.
- keywords: austerity; bargaining; canada; class; collective; decline; democratic; density; eds; employers; employment; end; fanelli; future; ilo; jobs; labour; life; luce; members; neoliberalism; new; percent; political; politics; power; press; private; public; relations; rights; sector; social; states; time; union; unionization; unionized; united; wages; work; workers; working; workplace
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- ar-22485
- author: Evans, Bryan ; Goguen, Marcel
- title: Policy Paradigms and the Structure of the State Apparatus: Embedding Neoliberalism
- date: 2019-08-06
- words: 9017
- flesch: 52
- summary: In contrast, beginning in the 1970s, neoclassical ‘intersubjective understandings’ of inflationary crises were caused by the failure of state policies so that they could only plausibly be dealt with through fiscal and monetary austerity (Widmaier, 2007, 47-49; 2004; 2003). Ideas concerning public policy and management, as the basic building blocks of knowledge and expertise, no matter 14 | Austerity and the Precarization of Everyday Life how anodyne and antiseptic the packaging, are anything but technical and apolitical.
- keywords: 1997; 2014; actors; administration; alternative; analysis; apparatus; austerity; authority; berman; blyth; béland; canada; central; certain; changes; concept; crisis; decline; dominant; dynamics; economic; economists; economy; evans; everyday; evidence; expertise; government; hall; ideas; ideational; ideology; important; influence; institutional; intersubjective; interview; issue; knowledge; life; limited; locations; london; makers; making; management; manufacture; market; matter; neoliberal; neoliberal policy; neoliberalism; new; non; npm; outside; paradigms; perspective; policies; policy; policy paradigms; policy process; political; politics; power; precarization; press; problems; process; public; public policy; relationship; research; result; role; sector; service; shift; social; specific; state; state apparatus; structure; support; technical; toronto; understanding; university; use; welfare; widmaier; work; world
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- ar-22487
- author: Joy, Meghan; Shields, John ; Cheng, Siu Mee
- title: Social Innovation Labs: A Neoliberal Austerity Driven Process or Democratic Intervention?
- date: 2019-08-06
- words: 7739
- flesch: 49
- summary: This requires finding out, to use a Blairist turn of phrase, ‘what works’; to push for new ways of thinking about social problems, to use the market in creative ways to fund and find solutions, and to approach social policy solutions in a pragmatic apolitical fashion. While SILs theoretically open up interesting possibilities regarding participatory policymaking and the involvement of grassroots civil society, the question is whether SILs address issues of values and power that lie at the root of wicked social policy problems (Rittel & Webber, 1973).
- keywords: actors; address; administration; analysis; approaches; austerity; behavioural; bonds; canada; canadian; case; causes; change; citizens; communities; complex; critical; crucial; democratic; design; different; economy; eds; emphasis; empirical; evans; everyday; financial; funding; governance; government; ideas; impact; innovation; innovation labs; issues; journal; joy; justice; labs; life; market; neoliberalism; new; non; npm; peck; place; policy; policy problems; policymaking; political; politics; power; practice; precarization; press; private; problems; process; processes; profit; project; public; questions; rationalist; research; rittel; sector; service; shields; sibs; sils; social; social innovation; social policy; social problems; solutions; solve; solving; stakeholders; state; systems; time; toronto; university; value; way; webber; westley; wicked
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- ar-22488
- author: Fifi, Gianmarco
- title: The Dimensions of Passive Revolution
- date: 2019-08-06
- words: 8961
- flesch: 41
- summary: KEYWORDS: Gramsci; passive revolution; hegemony; critical political economy; critical theory Introduction One of the main theoretical references that critical scholars have relied upon in the last few decades in order to provide a non-deterministic 7 Gianmarco Fifi is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. According to Peter Thomas, passive revolution for Gramsci meant ‘a distinctive process of (political) modernization that lacked the meaningful participation of popular classes in undertaking and consolidating social transformation’ (Thomas, 2013, 23).
- keywords: antithesis; austerity; author; bloc; bureaucratic; callinicos; capitalist; centralism; class; classes; common; concept; contemporary; critical; crucial; current; demands; democratic; development; different; dimensions; dominance; dominant; dynamic; economy; emphasis; everyday; example; fact; forces; good; gramsci; groups; hegemonic; hegemony; historical; intellectuals; international; level; life; london; masses; means; morton; movements; necessary; need; new; notebooks; order; particular; passive revolution; passivity; people; point; political; politics; popular; position; potential; power; praxis; precarization; present; prison; process; production; project; relations; restructuring; revolutionary; risorgimento; roccu; role; sense; situation; social; society; state; strong; struggles; studies; subaltern; term; thomas; thought; time; translation; understanding; use
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- ar-22489
- author: Perreault-Laird, Jordyn; Silver, Susan
- title: Precarity as the New Reality? Millennials’ Representation in the Changing Workplaces Review Policy Process
- date: 2019-08-06
- words: 9742
- flesch: 46
- summary: The decision to use submissions to the CWR was founded upon the desire to understand the type and degree of representation millennials received in the consultation process and to explore the ways in which their concerns were discussed. Based on the nature of their representation in this policy process, we explore the degree to which millennials are a serious consideration of labour policy, and as such, if they are viewed as a group deserving of this attention.
- keywords: analysis; austerity; bill; canada; canadian; categories; category; challenges; changes; characteristics; cohort; community; concerns; consultation; cormier; cwr; degree; demographic; economic; economy; employees; employment; esa; everyday; experiences; final; final report; force; generation; government; group; hankivsky; health; impact; important; international; intersectionality; issues; jobs; kershaw; labour; labour market; law; laws; legislation; life; limited; making; market; millennials; minimum; minister; ministry; new; number; olra; ontario; participation; pay; people; phase; policy; policy process; poverty; precarious; precarity; precarization; presence; process; public; reality; recommendation; report; representation; research; review; short; social; standards; student; study; submissions; substantive; table; temporary; terms; time; total; type; unique; vosko; vulnerable; wage; way; women; workers; workforce; workplaces; years; young; youth
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- ar-22490
- author: Koenig, Biko; Woodly, Deva
- title: Building Justice in the American Labor Movement
- date: 2019-08-06
- words: 10538
- flesch: 59
- summary: You have LPNs [licensed practical nurses] who are higher wage workers in the nursing home who will get small raises, who'll say, ‘I can't do my job next when I've got people next to me who are working double shifts, or two jobs.’ We should note that many union workers are not necessarily interested in questions of labor justice as we discuss them: “I think some of our best nurses, our activist nurses, get it
- keywords: 2016; able; action; american; arguments; austerity; benefits; better; building; campaigns; center; century; change; claims; common; community; conditions; contract; cornell; discourse; distributive; economic; economy; employers; everyday; ff15; fight; focus; food; frame; framework; groups; healthcare; higher; hour; immigrant; important; institutional; international; interview; issues; ithaca; job; justice; labor; labor justice; labor movement; language; laundry; leadership; life; like; lives; living; local; low; lwc; mahoma; making; material; members; membership; milkman; minimum; movement; n.d; need; new; nurses; organizations; organizers; organizing; people; policy; political; politics; poverty; power; practices; precarization; press; public; research; restaurant; rights; roc; seiu; sense; social; society; state; status; support; tactics; terms; time; training; union; united; university; vision; voss; wage; way; workers; working; workplace; york
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- ar-22492
- author: Routes, Alternate
- title: Complete Issue - Austerity and the Precarization of Everyday Life
- date: 2019-08-06
- words: 49310
- flesch: 50
- summary: Aside from the socio-economic advantages to being unionized – higher wages, pensions and benefits, job security, training, transparency and due process – organized labour has a long history of shaping social policy in the interests of working class communities and strengthening the social wage – public services or benefits that people receive in supplement of their wages earned from work and Austerity Without End | 7 paid for by redistributing wealth through the tax system (Himelfarb and Himelfarb 2013). Ideas and social policy: An institutionalist perspective.
- keywords: 1998; 2004; 2010; 2014; 2016; 2019; ability; able; account; action; actors; address; administration; advisors; advocacy; agency; agenda; alternative; american; analysis; antithesis; apparatus; approach; arguments; attention; austerity; author; authority; balance; bargaining; benefits; best; better; bloc; broader; building; bureaucracy; bureaucratic; business; callinicos; calls; campaigns; canada; canadian; capitalist; case; categories; category; causes; center; central; centralism; centre; certain; challenges; change; characteristics; citizens; city; claims; class; classes; clear; collective; common; communities; community; complex; concept; concerns; conditions; consultation; contemporary; context; contract; control; core; crisis; critical; crucial; current; cwr; decision; decline; degree; demands; democratic; demographic; density; design; development; different; dimensions; direction; discourse; diverse; dominant; dynamics; economic; economic policy; economists; economy; eds; emphasis; empirical; employers; employment; end; esa; evans; everyday; everyday life; evidence; example; experiences; expertise; fact; fanelli; ff15; fight; final; financial; focus; food; force; forms; framework; free; future; general; generation; global; good; governance; government; government policy; gramsci; great; group; hankivsky; healthcare; hegemonic; hegemony; high; higher; historical; hours; ideas; ideational; ideology; ilo; immigrant; impact; important; industry; influence; innovation; institutional; interests; international; intersectionality; interview; introduction; issues; ithaca; jobs; journal; joy; justice; key; knowledge; labor; labor justice; labor movement; labour policy; labs; lack; language; law; laws; leadership; legislation; level; life; like; likely; limited; limits; lives; living; local; locations; london; long; low; luce; lwc; main; makers; making; management; market; masses; material; matter; means; mechanisms; members; mere; milkman; millennials; minimum; minister; morton; movement; n.d; nature; necessary; need; neoliberal; neoliberal policy; neoliberalism; new; new public; non; notebooks; notion; npm; number; office; ontario; opportunities; opportunity; order; organizations; organizing; outside; oxford; paper; participation; particular; passive; passive revolution; passivity; pay; people; percent; perspectives; phase; philosophy; point; policies; policy; policy analysis; policy making; policy paradigms; policy process; policy work; policymakers; policymaking; political; politics; popular; position; possible; potential; poverty; power; practice; precarious; precarity; precarization; presence; press; previous; prison; private; problems; processes; production; profit; progressive; project; public; public policy; public sector; quality; question; reality; recent; recommendation; relations; relationship; report; representation; research; respect; restructuring; result; review; revolution; revolutionary; rights; rise; roccu; role; routes; sciences; second; sector; seiu; self; sense; service; set; shields; shift; short; sibs; significant; sils; similar; situation; small; social; social innovation; social policy; social problems; society; solutions; solving; specific; stability; staff; standards; state; state apparatus; status; strategy; strong; structure; struggles; student; studies; study; subaltern; submissions; substantive; support; system; technical; temporary; terms; theory; think; thomas; thought; time; today; toronto; total; trade; translation; treatment; type; understanding; union; unionization; unionized; unique; united; university; use; useful; value; vulnerable; wage; way; ways; welfare; wider; widmaier; women; workers; working; workplaces; works; world; years; york; young; youth
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- ar-22497
- author: McGibbon, Jennifer
- title: Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights
- date: 2019-09-09
- words: 1228
- flesch: 46
- summary: This will not be a revelation to anyone already interested in sex workers rights, but it is an important intervention into the literatures which treat sex workers as criminals, disease vectors or psychologically damaged individuals. As out sex workers, Mac and Smith have credence that stems not from their personal work experiences (this is little more than a footnote in the text) but from years of organizing and advocating on behalf of sex workers rights.
- keywords: alternate; analysis; authors; book; chapter; critical; industry; journal; legal; mac; movement; prostitutes; research; rights; routes; sex; smith; social; theoretical; workers
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- ar-22498
- author: Hudson, Carol-Anne
- title: The New Poverty
- date: 2019-09-11
- words: 1149
- flesch: 51
- summary: From this more intimate perspective we are reminded that, wherever we live in the Global North, policymaking that decouples economic growth from social welfare puts us all at risk of falling into poverty. This book seeks to set the record straight on the re-emergence of poverty in the UK and to alert readers to how the media reports and interprets social policy and facilitates a conservative ideological orientation.
- keywords: alternate; armstrong; book; british; critical; economic; families; journal; media; new; policy; poor; poverty; research; routes; social; state; stephen; war; welfare; work
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- ar-22499
- author: Lamoureux, Samuel
- title: Understanding the Business of Global Media in the Digital Age
- date: 2019-09-23
- words: 1212
- flesch: 51
- summary: The authors offer an interesting comparison 1 Ph.D. student in media studies, Faculté de communication, Université du Québec à Montréal. The following chapters deal with the six lenses to rethink the business of global media.
- keywords: age; authors; book; business; communication; critical; digital; economy; global; labor; lens; media; new; political; production; research; social; studies; study
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- ar-22500
- author: Weber, Barret
- title: For a Left Populism
- date: 2020-01-06
- words: 1355
- flesch: 49
- summary: Pages: 1-98. Reviewed by Barret Weber1 For decades, political theorist Chantal Mouffe led efforts to outline a theory of politics capable of coming to terms with on-the-ground struggles generally referred to as New Social Movements. According to Mouffe and Laclau, a deepened and radicalized concept of hegemony was needed to bring about a new “ontology of the social,” which the authors thought was needed to escape problems they diagnosed in the canons of Marxism that reified social class as the a priori category of social and political analysis, as well as the regrettable conversion of social democracy to neoliberalism under “the third way” and New Labour.
- keywords: alternate; class; critical; democracy; democratic; hegemony; journal; laclau; left; mouffe; new; political; politics; populist; project; routes; social; strategy; struggles; work
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- ar-22501
- author: Rothera, Evan C.
- title: New Directions in the Study of African American Recolonization
- date: 2020-01-20
- words: 1284
- flesch: 43
- summary: Pages 1 – 356. Reviewed by Evan C. Rothera1 Too often, for a number of reasons, scholars rush through colonization when they teach U.S. history. Beverly C. Tomek, currently associate chair of humanities at the University of Houston-Victoria and Matthew J. Hetrick, who teaches history at the Bryn Mawr School, have assembled an excellent volume that challenges much of what scholars think they know about colonization.
- keywords: acs; african; alternate; american; black; christian; colonization; colonizationists; critical; hetrick; history; journal; liberia; missionary; movement; research; routes; scholars; social; states; tomek; u.s; united; war
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- ar-22504
- author: Beardsworth, Adam
- title: Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump.
- date: 2020-02-23
- words: 1299
- flesch: 51
- summary: In a letter addressed “To the children of Satan” and mailed to more than twenty US mosques in the wake of Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory, an alt-right group calling itself Americans for a Better Way declared “[t]here’s a new sheriff in town—President Donald Trump. Alternate ROutes: A Journal of Critical Social Research www.alternateroutes.ca ‖ Twitter @ARjcsr 1 ALTERNATE ROUTES: A JOURNAL OF CRITICAL SOCIAL RESEARCH BOOK REVIEW Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump, by David Neiwert.
- keywords: alt; alternate; america; book; conservative; critical; decades; detail; election; fringe; journal; media; movements; nation; neiwert; party; political; research; right; routes; social; tea; trump
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- ar-22505
- author: Bartkiw, Tim
- title: Labour Under Attack: Anti-Unionism in Canada
- date: 2020-02-23
- words: 803
- flesch: 40
- summary: On the other hand, as a second theme, the book emphasizes in various parts the importance of improved understanding of what may be called negative union experience or “feedback” effects. Not surprisingly, the importance of union democracy in relation to this issue of agency is repeatedly stressed.
- keywords: anti; book; case; chapters; decline; focus; interesting; labour; negative; overall; research; social; theoretical; union; unionism; useful
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- ar-22506
- author: Fanelli, Carlo ; Whiteside, Heather
- title: COVID-19, Capitalism and Contagion
- date: 2020-07-16
- words: 8155
- flesch: 48
- summary: In 2019, Statistics Canada (2019) came to similar conclusions, estimating that average Canadians received over $6,000 in public services, $4,000 in education, and close to $9,000 in direct COVID-19, Capitalism and Contagion | 11 cash transfers (e.g., unemployment insurance, Old Age Security, Guaranteed Income Supplement), including another $2,500 in other public services like housing, recreation, culture and environmental protection. The OECD ranks Canada 25th out of 37, behind even the US, when it comes to public spending on social services as a share of GDP, a trend connected to the decades-long assault on public services as avenues of profit accumulation through privatization, public-private-partnerships and other forms of marketization (Evans and Fanelli, 2018; Whiteside, 2015).
- keywords: accumulation; american; anti; april; austerity; average; basic; benefits; canada; canadian; capacity; capitalism; change; class; climate; companies; contagion; coronavirus; corporate; corporations; countries; covid-19; crisis; cuts; debt; decades; democracy; democratic; direct; domestic; economic; economy; emergency; end; europe; evans; fanelli; federal; financial; fiscal; foreign; future; gains; global; government; great; growth; half; high; history; housing; imf; income; increase; international; investment; jobs; labour; large; left; liberal; like; limits; london; long; low; making; market; marx; movements; national; need; neoliberal; neoliberalism; new; news; pandemic; past; pay; people; percent; policies; policy; political; politics; populism; post; power; press; production; profit; protest; public; public services; radical; recent; recession; response; right; schmidt; sector; services; social; state; support; tax; taxes; times; today; toronto; trade; turning; unemployment; university; value; virus; volume; wages; wealth; welfare; whiteside; workers; working; world; worth; years; york
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- ar-22507
- author: McMichael, Phillip
- title: The Globalization Project in Crisis
- date: 2020-07-16
- words: 8126
- flesch: 44
- summary: Here, Chinese state capitalism puts the global market system to good use, complementing its state developmentalist model with trade, investment and training partners (Scoones, 2019). On the other hand, political elites (already beholden to financial elites) use the threat of immigration, via racist appeals, to distract from root causes in global market volatility.
- keywords: affairs; africa; alternative; american; anti; austerity; beijing; belt; brazil; brexit; bri; capitalism; century; change; chicago; china; chinese; civil; colonial; corporate; countries; crisis; cultures; deal; debt; december; development; dirlik; ecological; economic; economies; economy; elites; end; environmental; ethnic; european; extractivism; farming; fascism; financial; food; force; foreign; form; game; global; globalization; globalization project; guardian; hegemonic; historical; history; human; ibid; immigrant; imperial; india; infrastructure; initiative; internal; international; investment; labor; land; london; longer; market; mcmichael; migration; minorities; model; moment; movements; multipolarity; nationalism; neoliberal; neoliberalism; new; northern; order; origins; patel; perspective; polanyi; policies; political; politics; populations; populism; power; press; private; production; project; protest; public; regime; relations; rights; rise; road; rule; rural; smith; social; society; south; southern; state; strategy; subject; support; surveillance; system; times; trade; transnational; trump; university; use; war; western; white; widespread; wing; world; wto; york
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- ar-22508
- author: Galbo, Joe
- title: Making Sense of Italian Populism: The Five Star Movement and the Lega
- date: 2020-07-16
- words: 6314
- flesch: 58
- summary: Populism as political communication style: An empirical study of political party discourse in Belgium. While the European right looks to a “strong” leader, M5S is suspicious of the term “political leader.”
- keywords: anti; beppe; beppe grillo; berlusconi; blog; calise; casaleggio; castes; coalition; crisis; democracy; democratic; different; digital; election; elites; establishment; european; fascism; form; forza; giuffrida; globalization; government; grillo; guardian; internet; italian; italian populism; italy; kaltwasser; lanzone; leader; leadership; left; lega; like; local; london; m5s; matteo; media; migrants; movement; mudde; national; nationalism; new; order; parties; party; people; percent; personal; platform; political; politicians; politics; popular; populism; power; press; protest; refugee; renzi; representation; review; rhetoric; right; rise; salvini; sense; social; star; state; strategies; style; support; traditional; university; voters; wing; woods; year
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- ar-22509
- author: Jones, Bryn
- title: EU Neoliberalism at Bay: Social Democratic Renewal or Populist Economic Nationalism?
- date: 2020-07-16
- words: 9796
- flesch: 48
- summary: Right-wing politicians promoted a toxic xenophobic backlash from this mass immigration by linking it to EU policies. EU fiscal policy is rigid, exchange rate flexibility between member states is impossible and monetary policy is centralized.
- keywords: alternative; anti; austerity; authoritarian; autonomy; banks; bay; break; brexit; brexit party; british; business; casaleggio; centre; changes; clegg; coalition; conservative; controls; conventional; corporate; corrupt; countries; crisis; debt; democracy; democratic; deputies; different; direct; early; eclectic; economic; economy; elections; electoral; elites; emu; european; farage; figures; finance; financial; fiscal; forces; forms; freedom; general; globalisation; globalism; governance; government; grillo; groups; guardian; immigration; income; independence; influence; institutions; internal; international; italian; italy; jeremy; johnson; key; labour; labour party; leadership; left; lega; like; local; loucaides; m5s; main; major; making; manifesto; market; mass; measures; media; member; membership; migrants; minister; model; monetary; movement; mps; national; nationalism; neoliberal; neoliberalism; new; news; nigel; nord; northern; online; opposition; ownership; parliamentary; parties; party; people; policies; policy; political; politicians; politics; popular; populism; populists; post; potential; power; press; protest; public; referendum; reforms; regional; regulation; representative; right; rise; rousseau; rules; salvini; second; september; services; similar; single; social; sovereignty; spending; states; stelle; support; supporters; system; tax; times; trade; ukip; union; voters; wing; workers; world; years
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- ar-22510
- author: Martell, Luke
- title: The Democratic Economy: Beyond Globalisation and Neoliberalism
- date: 2020-07-16
- words: 8513
- flesch: 51
- summary: This need not replace local ownership, as pluralism is desirable for various reasons, and in many cases greater local accountability and participation is positive. Corbyn’s Labour combined both, and proposals for social ownership discussed in this chapter see ownership of production and equality of distribution as linked.
- keywords: alternative; anchor; appeal; approach; areas; argue; beckett; berry; brown; building; capital; capitalism; change; city; cles; common; community; competition; corbyn; corbynism; council; democracy; democratic; democratic economy; economic; economy; equality; forms; government; greater; groups; guinan; hanna; howard; institutions; international; issue; labour; labour party; lawrence; left; local; london; market; movements; national; new; opposition; ops; ownership; o’neill; participation; party; people; place; policies; policy; political; politics; populism; power; preston; private; procurement; proposals; protest; public; public ownership; renewal; right; services; social; social ownership; socialist; society; state; structures; support; system; systemic; way; wealth; wishart
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- ar-22511
- author: della Porta, Donnatella
- title: Spreading Protests: Changing Paths of Transnationalization of Social Movements
- date: 2020-07-16
- words: 6987
- flesch: 40
- summary: Social movement studies explained the emerging transnational social movement organisations, global protests, and cosmopolitan framing as triggered by economic, social, political, and cultural globalisation. In sum, the Global Justice Movement influenced the anti-austerity protests through the development of collective memory (Daphi and Zamponi 2014; della Porta et al 2018) and, filtered from the latter, also impacted on the most recent wave of global protests against social and political inequalities.
- keywords: action; activists; anti; austerity; austerity protests; cambridge; campaigns; capitalism; citizens; collective; contentious; cosmopolitan; countries; crisis; cross; d. della; della porta; democracy; development; different; diffusion; dimension; economic; ecpr; eds; european; financial; forms; global; global justice; globalization; greece; hot; ideas; important; inequalities; information; institutions; international; justice; justice movement; level; local; massive; mattoni; media; mobilisations; movement; networks; new; organizations; participatory; political; politics; populism; porta; power; practices; press; processes; protests; public; social; social movement; solidarity; space; specific; spreading; studies; tarrow; time; transnational; transnationalization; union; university; waves; world
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- ar-22512
- author: Careless, Jon
- title: Exploring the Trajectory of Housing Assistance Policies in Canada
- date: 2020-07-16
- words: 9193
- flesch: 51
- summary: The evidence presented will thus reveal how the Canadian state undertook this transition towards housing policies marked by neoliberalism and financialization, as well as explain why the state in Canada was so susceptible to the influence of neoliberal ideas predicated on removing barriers to capital accumulation (i.e. privatizing public assets, removal of bureaucratic rules and oversight that impede the business class). Importantly, the evidence provided does not suggest housing policy was necessarily more effective during the welfare state-era at tackling the housing access and affordability problems experienced by the working class and by income poor families overall.
- keywords: 1970s; access; accumulation; affordability; andersen; annual; assistance; canada; canada mortgage; canadian; canadian housing; canadian state; capital; century; changes; class; cmhc; cohesion; control; corporation; crisis; demand; economic; economy; efforts; esping; example; fallis; federal; financialization; form; government; growth; haps; help; homeownership; house; housing; housing assistance; housing market; housing policy; hulchanski; income; interest; investors; journal; keynesianism; limited; market; mbs; mortgage; national; neoliberalism; new; nha; non; ottawa; parliament; people; percent; policies; policy; political; populism; post; power; press; private; problems; profit; program; protest; provinces; provincial; provision; public; rates; rent; rental; report; research; role; sector; securities; shelter; social; social housing; state; studies; subsidized; support; suttor; time; toronto; trajectory; twentieth; university; urban; walks; welfare; welfare state; working; wwii
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- ar-22513
- author: Goutor, David
- title: Uneven Engagement: Unions and the Living Wage in Ontario
- date: 2020-07-16
- words: 10084
- flesch: 56
- summary: While scholars have provided valuable insight into how different organizations – including unions – have united behind living wage campaigns, there have been few detailed studies of just what labour leaders think about the living wage, especially in Canada. It reveals strong support for living wage campaigns and a belief that they should be a high priority for the labour movement.
- keywords: active; activism; answers; approach; bargaining; benefits; bill; business; campaigns; canada; community; council; discussion; economy; employers; engagement; evans; executives; fairness; fight; focus; gender; government; groups; hamilton; high; higher; impact; important; increase; interviews; issues; labour; larger; lead; leaders; level; little; living wage; local; low; majority; members; minimum; minimum wage; movement; municipal; need; new; ontario; ontario living; organizations; pay; people; political; populism; potential; poverty; power; priority; protest; public; questions; raise; rates; regulatory; respondents; responses; sense; social; start; support; uneven; unionists; unions; united; university; voluntary; wage; wage campaigns; workers; working
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- ar-22514
- author: Afara, Nour
- title: Forever Idle: The Resilience of Colonial Ideas on Black Bodies
- date: 2020-07-16
- words: 9015
- flesch: 50
- summary: I highlight the question of falling behind and/or failing forward by tracing the failings of social policy and its impacts on Black bodies by conducting a cross-historical analysis of seventeenth-century South Africa, specifically travel diaries from European incursions and twentieth-century United States, specifically works of social policy. Beyond the everyday racism that Black bodies are subjected to, I argue that these discourses were used by the state to continue to manage them, therefore perpetuating the colonial project.
- keywords: activity; africa; american; baartman; black; black bodies; bodies; body; boris; case; century; coetzee; colonial; colour; community; concept; contemporary; contexts; cultural; decadence; diaries; discourses; discursive; european; example; families; family; hard; historical; history; hottentots; ideas; identity; idleness; individual; initiative; jordan; language; lazy; leisure; life; like; mental; moment; moral; moynihan; negro; neocleous; particular; pejorative; people; physical; policy; political; populism; power; press; progress; protest; queen; race; racial; reading; report; resilience; result; saartjie; section; seventeenth; similar; slavery; social; society; south; space; spillers; state; subjects; time; travel; twentieth; united; university; venus; way; ways; welfare; welfare queen; white; women; work; world; writers
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- ar-22515
- author: Noonan, Jeff
- title: Democracy in Troubled Times
- date: 2020-07-16
- words: 5609
- flesch: 54
- summary: The paper examines liberal democracy as a contradictory social formation. The democratic side of liberal democracy is largely a result of these struggles.
- keywords: beings; capitalism; case; change; class; climate; common; conditions; control; countries; decisions; democracy; democratic; dependence; different; economy; enslaved; family; foa; forces; form; free; history; human; individuals; institutions; labour; law; liberal; liberal democracy; life; market; means; mounck; need; people; plant; political; popular; populism; power; private; problem; property; protest; public; rational; resources; rights; rule; scope; self; set; short; social; society; structure; struggles; system; term; times; troubled; women; workers; working
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- ar-22516
- author: Ives, Peter
- title: Global English in the Wake of the Collapse of Globalism
- date: 2020-07-16
- words: 4618
- flesch: 48
- summary: Drawing on recent empirical findings, this article argues that the advent of global English is fundamentally related to the massive presence of English as a mandatory subject in national public school-systems throughout the world. While Marxist historical materialist and other critical approaches provide thorough critiques of such mainstream approaches to ‘globalization,’ such analyses have been surprisingly silent on language politics, including global English (Ives, 2010; 2015).6 3 Language use is notoriously difficult to quantify, but by most estimates in the middle of the 20th century, about 250 million people used English on a daily basis, whereas by 2000, that number was over 1 billion and many estimate that now almost half the world’s population have significant command of English (see Crystal 2003, Graddol 2006).
- keywords: 20th; analysis; anderson; approaches; balibar; building; cambridge; capitalism; century; collapse; community; cosmopolitan; countries; crystal; cultural; dynamics; economic; education; english; global; global english; globalism; globalization; gramsci; imperialism; ives; key; language; linguistic; london; mandatory; modern; nation; national; nationalism; native; new; oxford; phillipson; policies; policy; political; politics; populism; power; press; project; protest; public; rise; role; school; sonntag; spread; state; subject; university; use; wake; world
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- ar-22517
- author: Collombat, Thomas
- title: Introduction to Special Section: Interventions on Labour Transnationalism as Practice Reflections from Trade Union Activists and Staff
- date: 2020-07-16
- words: 1461
- flesch: 53
- summary: Global Labour Studies. Global Labour Journal 8(3), 201-218.
- keywords: canada; canadian; challenges; efforts; global; globalization; imperialism; international; introduction; journal; labour; movements; nastovski; new; press; research; role; social; solidarity; south; studies; today; trade; union; university; war; waterman; workers; world
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- ar-22518
- author: Gibb, Euan
- title: Global Framework Agreements: Building and Protecting Space for Local Collective Bargaining Through International Organization
- date: 2020-07-16
- words: 5311
- flesch: 49
- summary: Nobody knows the priorities of local issues as intimately as local workers and their trade unions. As a result, workers’ organizations at the international level have increased efforts to develop independent strength and capacity of local trade unions to act.
- keywords: agreements; bargaining; basic; clauses; cls; collective; companies; company; competition; conduct; context; convention; corporate; countries; development; different; diversity; documents; effective; efforts; european; fichter; framework; framework agreements; gallin; gfas; global; global framework; globalization; gufs; icftu; ilo; implementation; important; independent; industrial; international; iuf; labour; language; level; local; management; neoliberal; north; oecd; online; organizations; organizing; populism; power; protest; relations; respect; rights; sector; social; south; specific; standards; strong; suppliers; support; tncs; trade; unions; workers; working; world
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- ar-22519
- author: Cameron, Kelti; Casselman, Louisse; Hoogers, Evert
- title: Defending Public Services: Canadian and Colombian Workers on the Frontlines
- date: 2020-07-16
- words: 5664
- flesch: 39
- summary: The potential role for Colombian public sector unions in rebuilding the labour movement should not be underestimated. Workers in Canada learned that Colombian public sector workers were deprived of their rights to collective bargaining and to strike and faced unjust dismissal and blacklisting.
- keywords: afro; agreement; alliance; bargaining; buenaventura; building; canada; canadian; canadian union; canadian workers; collective; colombia; colombian workers; communities; community; countries; country; cupe; cupw; delegation; dora; employees; experiences; forces; free; frontlines; frontlines initiative; general; global; government; human; important; indigenous; initiative; international; labour; leaders; leadership; lilia; members; movement; new; november; nupge; office; organized; plan; political; populism; postal; postal workers; power; president; privatization; protest; psac; public; public sector; public services; resistance; rights; sector; sector unions; sector workers; services; social; solidarity; state; stpc; struggle; support; trade; union; uribe; visit; water; workers; working; years
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- ar-22520
- author: Marshall, Judith
- title: Global Networks Challenging the Power of the Mining Industry
- date: 2020-07-16
- words: 7384
- flesch: 49
- summary: According to the report back from Valerio Vieira, then President of Metabase Inconfidentes, a founding member of AV, 12 of the 14 unions representing Vale mine workers were basically “company unions”, eager to praise the new president. USW had convened a global meeting in Sudbury of unions representing Vale workers soon after Vale’s take-over.
- keywords: affected; agreements; bargaining; boyce; brazil; canada; canadian; capture; challenge; chile; collective; communities; community; companies; company; compliance; conference; contributions; corporate; corporations; countries; development; different; direct; education; exchanges; forms; free; fund; global; globalization; government; harvey; health; humanity; inco; industry; initiatives; institutional; instruments; international; labour; land; leaders; local; long; marshall; meeting; members; mines; mining; mining industry; model; mozambique; multiple; need; neoliberalism; networks; new; nickel; operations; order; people; political; populism; power; president; projects; protest; public; regulatory; relationships; report; resources; rights; role; safety; sector; social; solidarity; state; steelworkers; step; study; sub; sudbury; support; tailings; teck; time; today; trade; transnational; union; usw; vale; visit; way; workers; working; workplace; world; years
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- ar-22523
- author: Grant-Young, Josh
- title: The Robotic Imaginary: The Human & the Price of Dehumanized Labor
- date: 2020-11-28
- words: 1296
- flesch: 32
- summary: “Caring”, the first chapter of The Robotic Imaginary, argues convincingly that A.I. and care labor – “a feminized and routinely undervalued form of labor” (31) – has always been (per Rhee) wrapped up in the history of A.I. Drawing on Joseph Weizenbaum’s Rogerian therapist A.I. named ELIZA, the character Helen in Richard Power’s novel Galatea 2.2, Samantha in the Spike Jonze film Her, and art installations featuring A.I., Rhee explores how Alan Turing’s foundational essay “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” sets the pace for care work to be a crucial part of A.I. labor (with care labour being an undervalued and unwaged one under capitalism). Rhee examines how in the 1990’s, a ‘turn’ towards emotions as a defining quality of the human experience (counter to the Enlightenment’s insistence on reason) arises in tandem with the development of machines who communicate with humans via emotional expression – termed ‘sociable robots’.
- keywords: a.i; alternate; art; care; critical; dehumanization; drone; history; human; imaginary; journal; labor; present; readers; research; rhee; robotic; robotic imaginary; robots; routes; social; work
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- ar-22524
- author: Noonan, Jeff
- title: Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason; The Ways of the World
- date: 2021-01-18
- words: 3156
- flesch: 47
- summary: Gorz’s main point: capitalism reduces the world and human life to a one- dimensional economic reason which treats both as quantified inputs into a process that must expand or die. Human life is the product of billions of years of physical, chemical, and evolutionary processes.
- keywords: activity; alternate; capital; capitalism; change; cities; critical; dynamics; economic; economy; environment; essays; formation; geography; global; harvey; historical; human; journal; life; madness; marx; material; materialism; nature; new; political; problem; production; reason; research; routes; social; society; space; struggle; time; understanding; urban; value; ways; work; workers; world
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- ar-22525
- author: Martin, Susan Marie
- title: Not Good Enough For Canada: Canadian Public Discourse around Issues of Inadmissability for Potential Immigrants with Diseases and/or Disabilities 1902-2002
- date: 2021-08-06
- words: 1317
- flesch: 47
- summary: Alternate ROutes: A Journal of Critical Social Research www.alternateroutes.ca ‖ Twitter @ARjcsr 1 ALTERNATE ROUTES: A JOURNAL OF CRITICAL SOCIAL RESEARCH BOOK REVIEW Not Good Enough For Canada: Canadian Public Discourse around Issues of Inadmissability for Potential Immigrants with Diseases and/or Disabilities 1902-2002, by Valentina Capurri. Just ahead of the pandemic Valentina Capurri reviewed the political and public discourses underpinning these measures: spanning the period 1902 to 2002, she soundly unearths the breadth of Canada’s efforts to establish the economic value and ‘worthiness’ of potential immigrants using these criterion.
- keywords: admissibility; alternate; canada; canadian; capurri; critical; disabilities; economic; family; globe; good; immigrants; journal; measures; medical; public; research; routes; scotland; social; studies; time; toronto; university
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- ar-22526
- author: Fanelli, Carlo ; Whiteside, Heather
- title: In the Fight of Our Lives :
- date: 2021-08-17
- words: 114
- flesch: -542
- summary: In the Fight of Our Lives | 5 6 | Work for Change In the Fight of Our Lives | 7 8 | Work for Change In the Fight of Our Lives | 9 10 | Work for Change https://medium.com/@OxfamIFIs/austerity-is-not-a-fair-shot-fdc4e11a06b6 https://medium.com/@OxfamIFIs/austerity-is-not-a-fair-shot-fdc4e11a06b6 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/for-profit-care-homes-coronavirus-deaths-wfpcbc-cbc-1.5952171 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/for-profit-care-homes-coronavirus-deaths-wfpcbc-cbc-1.5952171 https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-and-social-sector/our-insights/the-10-trillion-dollar-rescue-how-governments-can-deliver-impact https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-and-social-sector/our-insights/the-10-trillion-dollar-rescue-how-governments-can-deliver-impact https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-and-social-sector/our-insights/the-10-trillion-dollar-rescue-how-governments-can-deliver-impact https://www.ft.com/content/c6d2de3a-6ec5-11ea-89df-41bea055720b https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bank-earnings-thursday-1.6042217 https://www.gov.nl.ca/releases/2021/exec/0506n02/ In the Fight of Our Lives | 11 https://voxeu.org/article/fiscal-austerity-intensifies-increase-inequality-after-pandemics https://voxeu.org/article/fiscal-austerity-intensifies-increase-inequality-after-pandemics https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/statements-and-speeches/WCMS_779257/lang--en/index.htm https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/statements-and-speeches/WCMS_779257/lang--en/index.htm https://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/statements-and-speeches/WCMS_779257/lang--en/index.htm https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/Issues/2020/09/30/world-economic-outlook-october-2020 https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/Issues/2020/09/30/world-economic-outlook-october-2020 https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/ar/2020/eng/downloads/imf-annual-report-2020.pdf https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/ar/2020/eng/downloads/imf-annual-report-2020.pdf https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2103614 https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-14/inflation-fears-are-overblown-even-with-massive-covid-stimulus https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-14/inflation-fears-are-overblown-even-with-massive-covid-stimulus https://globalnews.ca/news/7743986/forbes-billionaires-list-covid-19/ https://globalnews.ca/news/7743986/forbes-billionaires-list-covid-19/ 12 | Work for Change https://www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca/index.php/death-rates-in-long-term-care-by-ownership-release/ https://www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca/index.php/death-rates-in-long-term-care-by-ownership-release/ https://www.ontario.ca/page/long-term-care-covid-19-commission-progress-interim-recommendations https://www.ontario.ca/page/long-term-care-covid-19-commission-progress-interim-recommendations https://www.oecd.org/economic-outlook/ https://www.oecd.org/economic-outlook/ https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00396-2 https://pressprogress.ca/experts-say-long-term-care-companys-report-on-covid-19-deaths-deflects-blame-from-for-profit-business-model/ https://pressprogress.ca/experts-say-long-term-care-companys-report-on-covid-19-deaths-deflects-blame-from-for-profit-business-model/ https://pressprogress.ca/experts-say-long-term-care-companys-report-on-covid-19-deaths-deflects-blame-from-for-profit-business-model/ http://psacunion.ca/new-report-reinforces-need-make-revera-long-term http://psacunion.ca/new-report-reinforces-need-make-revera-long-term In the Fight of Our Lives | 13 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2777924 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2777924 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-government-200-million-mrna-1.6031024#:~:text=Politics-,Federal%20government%20invests%20%24200%20million%20to%20build%20an%20mRNA%20vaccine,investment%20in%20a%20Mississauga%2C%20Ont https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-government-200-million-mrna-1.6031024#:~:text=Politics-,Federal%20government%20invests%20%24200%20million%20to%20build%20an%20mRNA%20vaccine,investment%20in%20a%20Mississauga%2C%20Ont https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-government-200-million-mrna-1.6031024#:~:text=Politics-,Federal%20government%20invests%20%24200%20million%20to%20build%20an%20mRNA%20vaccine,investment%20in%20a%20Mississauga%2C%20Ont https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-government-200-million-mrna-1.6031024#:~:text=Politics-,Federal%20government%20invests%20%24200%20million%20to%20build%20an%20mRNA%20vaccine,investment%20in%20a%20Mississauga%2C%20Ont https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-government-200-million-mrna-1.6031024#:~:text=Politics-,Federal%20government%20invests%20%24200%20million%20to%20build%20an%20mRNA%20vaccine,investment%20in%20a%20Mississauga%2C%20Ont https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini/2021/04/06/meet-the-40-new-billionaires-who-got-rich-fighting-covid-19/?sh=1388236917e5 https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini/2021/04/06/meet-the-40-new-billionaires-who-got-rich-fighting-covid-19/?sh=1388236917e5 https://thebigresetnl.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/PERT-FullReport.pdf https://thebigresetnl.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/PERT-FullReport.pdf https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600c5e163c156d341b529600/t/60a3a52190b338485bad8597/1621337381484/NL+Peoples+Recovery+Discussion+Paper+May+2021.pdf https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600c5e163c156d341b529600/t/60a3a52190b338485bad8597/1621337381484/NL+Peoples+Recovery+Discussion+Paper+May+2021.pdf https://static1.squarespace.com/static/600c5e163c156d341b529600/t/60a3a52190b338485bad8597/1621337381484/NL+Peoples+Recovery+Discussion+Paper+May+2021.pdf https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/child-labour-rises-160-million-first-increase-two-decades https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/child-labour-rises-160-million-first-increase-two-decades https://parlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20210309/-1/34915?Language=English&Stream=Video https://parlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20210309/-1/34915?Language=English&Stream=Video
- keywords: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-government-200-million-mrna-1.6031024#:~:text=politics-,federal%20government%20invests%20%24200%20million%20to%20build%20an%20mrna%20vaccine,investment%20in%20a%20mississauga%2c%20ont; lives
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- ar-22534
- author: Martin, Susan Marie
- title: Productivity and Prosperity: A Historical Sociology of Productivist Thought
- date: 2021-09-06
- words: 1256
- flesch: 45
- summary: ‖ Twitter @ARjcsr 3 ALTERNATE ROUTES: A JOURNAL OF CRITICAL SOCIAL RESEARCH The rest of the chapter surveys the deepening of the link between productivity and prosperity with the goals of government policy to the point that, at least in government circles, there was no turning back. The chapter on the Dominion Bureau of Statistics, now Statistics Canada, is one example how gathering and disseminating data about economic activity can work at a subliminal level on a population; in Foster’s words, “the presumed link between productivity and prosperity permeates stories, theories, and conversations that do not, on surface, appear to have much to do with productivity at all” including those as disparate as shorter workdays and stand-up desks (89).
- keywords: alternate; canada; canadian; case; chapter; concept; critical; economic; economy; foster; government; historical; journal; productivity; prosperity; research; routes; social; studies; university; work
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- ar-22535
- author: Boeckner, McKenna James
- title: Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire
- date: 2021-10-07
- words: 1709
- flesch: 42
- summary: In his new book, Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire (2020), Halberstam tracks the rhetorical presence of those wild things from Sendak’s infamous children’s book as they manifest in contemporary and historical knowledge production and offer theoretical potential as anti-colonial and anti-heteronormative genealogical tools. In this vein, Wild Things represents Halberstam’s first book-length foray into what can be considered ecocriticism or queer ecologies.
- keywords: alternate; bewilderment; book; children; closet; colonial; contemporary; critical; desire; epistemology; ferox; halberstam; human; indigenous; journal; knowledge; like; nature; new; press; queer; research; routes; sedgwick; sendak; social; theory; things; thought; university; way; wild; work; years
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- ar-22536
- author: Girard, David
- title: Queering Representation: LGBTQ People and Electoral Politics in Canada
- date: 2022-01-21
- words: 1284
- flesch: 48
- summary: Pages: 1-358. Reviewed by David Girard1 The fight for equal rights for LGBTQ communities, while at times slow and exasperating, has evolved significantly over the past fifty years in Canada. The chapter on the Liberals focuses solely on the good things the party has done for LGBTQ communities without mention of any criticism.
- keywords: alternate; book; canada; chapters; community; critical; issues; journal; lgbtq; liberals; ndp; party; political; politics; queering; representation; robinson; routes; sexual; social; tremblay
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- ar-22537
- author: Ramos, Andrew
- title: In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West
- date: 2022-02-17
- words: 1316
- flesch: 34
- summary: The text raises the point that actually existing neoliberalism deforms its theoretical legacy, and revises Brown’s 2015 hit book by shifting from a macro-economic lens to a refined criticism of Hayekian neoliberalism. She argues that Hayekian neoliberalism destroys the social as a concept and reduces democratic political power, and that it replaces these two processes with a conflation of traditional morality and market freedoms.
- keywords: architecture; authoritarianism; book; brown; chapter; critical; democracy; equality; hayek; hayekian; neoliberalism; political; rise; routes; ruins; social; text; theoretical; theory
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- ar-22538
- author: Germaine, Mary
- title: The Twittering Machine
- date: 2022-02-26
- words: 1387
- flesch: 57
- summary: This image is Richard Seymour’s opening metaphor for social media, or as he calls it, the social industry: the extremely profitable trade Facebook, Google, and Twitter make with users, offering communication tools in exchange for their personal data. Seymour doesn’t address silent users directly but does put an answer in front of us through his account of how the Twittering Machine “manages time differently” (65), counting the minutes, hours, or weeks since content was posted, rather than the clock time at which it was published.
- keywords: addiction; alternate; book; critical; data; industry; internet; journal; machine; media; new; pew; reading; research; routes; seymour; social; time; twitter; twittering; users; web; writing
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- ar-22539
- author: Marshall, Robert
- title: The Rowell-Sirois Commission and The Remaking of Canadian Federalism
- date: 2022-10-12
- words: 2093
- flesch: 41
- summary: Skelton conveyed to the Prime Minister that “the disintegration of Canada is proceeding fast” (pg.5) did King grasp the seriousness of what was being demanded and the federal government succumbed to the pressure and appointed a Royal Commission on 14 August 1937 References: Inwood, Gregory J. Continentalizing Canada: The Politics and Legacy of the Macdonald Royal Commission.
- keywords: alternate; authors; book; british; canada; canadian; commission; constitutional; crisis; critical; economic; federal; federalism; ferguson; free; government; history; impact; inquiry; journal; king; mackenzie; powers; provincial; recommendations; research; robert; routes; rowell; royal; significant; sirois; social; state; time; university; wardhaugh
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- ar-22540
- author: Tremblay, Naty ; Duran, Rosa; Reinders, Kathryn
- title: Governing the Social in Neoliberal Times
- date: 2022-10-12
- words: 1335
- flesch: 33
- summary: While the book could have benefitted from a more nuanced, intersectional approach to unpacking neoliberal governmentality, Governing the Social provides a strong foundation in Foucault’s core ideas, concepts, and applications that may spur further critical analytical work and continue building the consciousness required to understand the consequences of power, privilege, and inspire everyday acts of resistance. Divided into three sections, Governing the Social features a wide array of case studies which illustrate how specific practices of neoliberal governmentality have shaped the West over the last four decades.
- keywords: alternate; book; change; chapters; critical; diverse; everyday; governing; governmentality; journal; neoliberal; neoliberalism; power; practical; practices; research; resistance; risk; routes; social; students; times; work
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- ar-22541
- author: Evans, Bryan
- title: A Different Kind of State: Imagining Popular Power and Democratic Administration for the 21st Century
- date: 2023-02-22
- words: 9124
- flesch: 46
- summary: A second Poulantzian concept, state administration, distinguishes between the traditional understanding of public administration where the machinery of the state is seen to be fragmented, politically neutral and technocratic but subject to the dominance of an elected and representative legislature with the observation that the state is instead subject to an expanding concentration of state power in the hands of the executive arm. Thus, not only does the executive become the site for the elaboration of state policy, but it is also becomes the principal actor in this process.
- keywords: actors; address; administration; agenda; albo; apparatus; barcelona; bec; bologna; capitalist; cases; central; centre; citizens; city; class; community; control; council; decision; deliberative; democracy; democratic; democratic administration; development; different; direct; economic; eds; elite; executive; experience; forces; form; glc; government; greater; groups; housing; ibid; initiatives; innovations; institutions; interests; key; kind; knowledge; labour; left; line; local; london; making; means; movements; municipal; needs; neighbourhood; new; non; open; order; organizations; panitch; participation; participatory; parties; party; pci; people; planning; policy; political; politics; popular; poulantzas; power; practice; press; problems; process; processes; program; public; public administration; quality; question; radical; red; representative; role; sense; services; shift; social; socialism; society; state; theory; time; trade; unions; university; urban; wainwright; wilson; workers; working
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- ar-22543
- author: Livingstone, D.W.
- title: Professional Employees’ Transformative Potential: Labour Aristocracy or New Working Class
- date: 2023-02-22
- words: 8845
- flesch: 44
- summary: More specifically, there should be positive associations between non-managerial employee classes and expressions of pro-labour oppositional class consciousness. Professional employees and other non-managerial workers who have accrued more net wealth are about as likely as workers with less net assets to express pro-labour oppositional class consciousness.
- keywords: advanced; aristocracy; assets; available; basic; canada; canadian; capital; capitalist; change; class; class consciousness; classes; conditions; consciousness; consistent; contradictory; control; corporate; countries; data; economy; empirical; employees; employer; employment; evidence; express; extent; findings; force; general; greater; groups; industrial; industrial workers; interests; jobs; knowledge; labour; labour consciousness; labour force; labour oppositional; large; levels; likely; livingstone; making; managerial; managerial workers; managers; middle; national; net; new; non; numbers; occupations; oppositional; oppositional class; oppositional consciousness; owners; percent; period; political; power; production; professional; professional employees; profits; progressive; recent; research; revolutionary; self; series; service; service workers; small; social; source; specialized; structure; studies; support; surveys; table; terms; thesis; time; total; upper; views; wealth; workers; working
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- ar-22544
- author: Fanelli, Carlo ; Whiteside, Heather
- title: Pandemic Capitalism and Cities: Work and Inequality
- date: 2023-03-06
- words: 9569
- flesch: 41
- summary: The ‘centre’, like social democratic politics more widely, is a politics devoid of adversaries, and increasingly a spent force neither able to provide a convincing intellectual explanation of what has been happening over the last forty years, nor connect with the various layers of the working class negatively affected by the consequences of neoliberal de- democratization. We also seek to identify opportunities for rebuilding worker power through a radical anti-capitalist politics attuned to cities in crisis.
- keywords: act; albo; anti; april; austerity; benefits; broader; canada; canadian; capacities; capitalist; care; change; cities; city; class; communities; context; coronavirus; corporations; covid-19; crisis; cuts; debt; decades; democracy; democratic; economic; economy; eds; effects; employers; employment; estimated; evans; fanelli; financial; fiscal; future; global; governments; growth; half; higher; history; housing; human; ilo; imf; income; increase; inequality; inflation; international; investments; jobs; journal; labour; left; life; living; local; london; long; low; market; marx; measures; monetary; national; need; neoliberal; neoliberalism; new; news; non; oecd; organization; pandemic; peck; people; percent; policies; policy; political; politics; poverty; power; precarious; press; private; profits; property; protections; public; radical; rates; recovery; relations; research; responses; rights; scale; sector; services; social; socialist; space; spending; state; strategies; struggles; studies; support; tax; taxes; time; toronto; union; unionized; university; urban; urbanism; use; wage; wealth; welfare; whiteside; wider; words; work; workers; working; workplace; world
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- ar-22545
- author: Ba', Stefano
- title: Precarity and Processes of Classification: Conflictual Concepts of Class, Labour-Power and Caring
- date: 2023-03-08
- words: 7737
- flesch: 54
- summary: Conventional and Conflictual Concepts of Class A conflictual concept of social class is crucial to understanding the daily struggles of people in precarity, thus this article deploys alternative concepts around class (Adorno, 2019; Bonefeld, 2002; Dinnerstein & Neary, 2002; Radice, 2015; Tischler, 2009) so as to articulate them in the contemporary scenario of precarious employment. The sociological study of precarity, in the sense of casualisation of employment linked to general social insecurity, has been connected with issues of social class almost from the outset (Paugam, 2000; Castel, 2003; Toscano, 2007; Standing, 2011).
- keywords: aim; analysis; approach; article; barbara; benjamin; bonefeld; broader; capital; care; caring; case; children; class; classes; classification; concept; conditions; conflictual; conventional; counter; crisis; critical; daily; daughter; dinerstein; economic; employment; european; family; financial; following; general; giannini; group; holloway; insecure; insecurity; italian; italy; job; jobs; labour; life; lives; living; marcus; marika; market; material; means; middle; mothers; narratives; neary; normal; occupations; omar; participants; people; point; power; precarious; precarious employment; precarisation; precarity; press; processes; raffaella; relations; research; roberta; social; sociological; stories; struggles; support; theory; time; tischler; university; vosko; wage; work; workers; working; world
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- ar-22546
- author: Venne, Rosemary A. ; Hannay, Maureen
- title: Behind the Work-Fertility Trade-off: Women, Work and Transitions
- date: 2023-03-08
- words: 9493
- flesch: 51
- summary: The pandemic appears to be accelerating the shift towards lower fertility rates though it is uncertain if this is a temporary downturn. Policy implications of delayed reproduction and low fertility rates.
- keywords: activity; adulthood; aging; baby; balance; canada; canadian; career; caring; century; changes; childcare; children; complex; concerns; countries; course; covid-19; current; decades; demographic; early; earning; economic; economy; education; employment; families; family; female; fertility; flexible; force; gender; globe; higher; home; identity; impact; issue; job; jobs; labour; leave; levels; life; likely; longer; low; lower; mail; march; market; marriage; mitchell; model; mothers; moyser; nations; new; ontario; pandemic; parental; parents; participation; patterns; people; period; policies; policy; population; postwar; prolonged; quebec; rates; recent; report; retirement; roles; school; social; society; statistics; supply; supportive; terms; time; trade; transitions; trovato; united; unpaid; venne; women; work; workers; workforce; working; years; york; young
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- ar-22547
- author: Colaguori, Claudio
- title: Neoliberalism and its Discontents: The Ideal of Liberation in the Context of Dialectical Tensions and Planetary Extremification
- date: 2023-03-13
- words: 8097
- flesch: 44
- summary: The state of exception, a political condition initially explored by Schmitt (1996) is yet another manifestation of the transformation of classical liberal state into the neoliberal state. 87 “Neoliberalism is in the first instance of theory of political economic practices that proposes that human well-being can best be advanced by liberating individual entrepreneurial freedoms and skills within an institutional framework characterized by strong private property rights, free markets, and free trade… It must also set up those military, defence, police, and legal structures and functions required to secure private property rights and to guarantee, by force if need be, the proper functioning of markets.”
- keywords: adorno; advanced; analysis; books; capitalism; case; century; children; civil; classical; competition; concept; conception; condition; consciousness; consumer; context; corporate; corruption; crisis; critical; cultural; culture; democracy; derrida; dialectical; domination; economic; emancipation; empire; enlightenment; evident; exchange; extremes; extremification; female; force; forms; freedom; friedman; global; harvey; history; horkheimer; human; ideal; images; individual; individualism; inherent; instrument; law; legal; liberal; liberalism; liberty; life; london; macpherson; manner; market; material; means; media; military; mill; milton; modern; movements; nations; nature; neoliberal; neoliberalism; new; new york; ongoing; order; original; oxford; patriarchal; people; philosophical; planetary; political; possessive; power; present; press; principle; private; problems; property; protection; public; rand; reality; relation; rights; rule; seigel; self; sexual; social; societies; society; sovereign; state; subjection; suffering; system; theory; thought; time; today; type; university; university press; violence; visual; war; wealth; women; world; york
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- ar-22548
- author: Calvert, John
- title: Just Transition in the Construction Industry: A Union’s Campaign to Create Jobs by Promoting Climate Change Upgrades in Buildings
- date: 2023-03-27
- words: 8411
- flesch: 51
- summary: Recent literature on the effectiveness of energy conservation buildings has highlighted the ‘performance gap’ in new and refurbished net zero buildings. As part of their climate policies, school districts have been exploring energy saving programs such as roof and wall insulation, better windows, LEDs, low flow toilets and more efficient boilers.
- keywords: 131; administrators; air; allison; ashrae; audit; audit program; auditing; benefits; better; building; calvert; campaign; canada; canadian; change; climate; commercial; commission; components; construction; contractors; cost; design; districts; ductwork; emissions; energy; energy audit; facility; free; ghg; government; guide; high; hvac; impact; industrial; industry; initiative; inspection; institute; insulation; insulators; investment; jobs; john; king; lanarc; local; low; major; managers; mechanical; members; mi energy; national; net; new; owners; performance; pipes; potential; program; provincial; qualified; quality; red; report; research; roi; savings; school; seal; sector; sherrard; software; specifications; standards; systems; table; technology; thermal; trade; training; union; unionized; university; upgrades; upgrading; use; vol; work; workers
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- ar-22549
- author: Durou, Guillaume ; Maroto, Michelle ; Brown, Delphine
- title: Unpacking the Alberta Advantage through an Intersectional Lens: Social Class, Gender and Minority Groups in Alberta
- date: 2023-04-04
- words: 9281
- flesch: 47
- summary: Our research seeks to understand the extent of that so-called advantage by examining the intersection of social class, gender, race, marital status and immigrant status for two distinct periods – before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. By using those two datasets, we shed a light on the dynamics of inequality and rethink social class in the West.
- keywords: advantage; alberta; alberta advantage; american; analysis; approach; better; black; canada; canadian; categorical; categories; census; certain; citizen; class; class identity; common; context; data; differences; different; discrimination; economic; effects; ethnicity; experience; family; framework; gap; gender; groups; health; higher; identification; identity; immigrant; immigrant status; income; indigeneity; indigenous; individuals; inequalities; inequality; interaction; international; intersectionality; intersections; journal; law; likely; low; lower; man; marital; marital status; marriage; married; measures; methods; middle; middle class; migration; model; new; non; oil; pandemic; people; policy; political; politics; population; position; poverty; press; province; quantitative; race; relationship; research; respondents; review; self; single; social; social class; social status; society; sociology; statistics; status; studies; study; subjective; survey; terms; theory; times; unemployment; university; upper; viewpoint; white; women; working
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- ar-22550
- author: Lippman, Anna
- title: Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
- date: 2023-07-27
- words: 1119
- flesch: 54
- summary: “Though anti-Blackness permeated all aspects of Canadian society, Policing Black Lives focuses primarily on state or state-sanctioned violence (though at times this is complemented with an enlarged scope in instances where anti-Black state practices were buttressed by popular hostility, the media or civil society). Chapters five and six go further beyond conventional notions of criminalization through discussing anti-Black policies and practices in both social services and border ‘security’.
- keywords: anti; black; bodies; canada; canadian; chapters; focus; lives; maynard; people; practices; research; slavery; social; state; system; violence; ways
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- ar-22554
- author: Potter, Garry
- title: Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Program
- date: 2023-08-11
- words: 1264
- flesch: 60
- summary: Marx first distinguishes use value and exchange value. Exchange value, is, of course, totally different.
- keywords: capitalism; communism; exchange; hudis; labour; marx; necessary; production; review; social; socialism; time; translation; use; value; work
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