LABOUR FAIR 2009 – Featured Books
Library Learning Commons
This is a selection of BOOKS available in the LIBRARY LEARNING COMMONS
Work and labour in Canada : critical issues / Andrew Jackson.
K1705 .L334 2005 ST. JAMES LIBRARY
Are efforts to protect workers’ rights compatible with the forces of globalization? How
can minimum standards designed to protect labour rights be implemented in a world in
which national labour law is more and more at the mercy of international forces
beyond its control?
• Labour rights as human rights : the not so happy state of the art / Philip
Alston
• Social rights in a globalized economy / Simon Deakin –
• The right to bargain collectively in international law : workers' right, human
right, international right? / Patrick Macklem
• Is the ILO effective in upholding workers' rights? : reflections on the Myanmar
experience / Francis Maupain
• The labor dimension of the emerging Free Trade Area of the Americas / Steve
Charnovitz
• Should the EU have the power to set minimum standards for collective labour
rights in the member states? / A.C.L. Davies
• The European Union and international labour standards : the dynamics of
dialogue between the EU and the ILO / Tonia Novitz
Work in tumultuous times : critical perspectives / edited by Vivian
Shalla and Wallace Clement.
HD8106.5 .W58 2007 ST. JAMES LIBRARY
This interdisciplinary volume offers a powerful critique of how social structures and
relations as well as ideologies shape workplaces, labour markets, and households
in contemporary Canada. Contributors dissect recent transformations in work and
expose the uncertainty, insecurity, and instability that increasingly characterize
both paid and unpaid work.
Using a progressive approach to political economy, contributors propose
alternative policies and practices that might secure more decent livelihoods for
workers and their families.
Precarious employment: understanding labour market insecurity in
Canada / edited by Leah F. Vosko.
HD8106.5 .P74 2006 ST. JAMES LIBRARY
A multifaceted picture of precarious employment and the ways in which its principal
features are reinforced or challenged by laws, policies, and labour market institutions,
including trade unions and community organizations.
Educational Resources – Library Learning Commons
LABOUR FAIR 2009 – Featured Books
Library Learning Commons
This is a selection of BOOKS available in the LIBRARY LEARNING COMMONS
'We're rooted here and they can't pull us up' : essays in African
Canadian women's history / Peggy Bristow, coordinator ... [et al.]
HD5728 .L29 2007 CASA LOMA LIBRARY
• Naming Names, Naming Ourselves: A Survey of Early Black Women in
Nova Scotia --
• The Lord seemed to say "Go"': Women and the Underground Railroad
Movement --
• Whatever you raise in the ground you can sell it in Chatham': Black
Women in Buxton and Chatham, 1850-65 --
• Black Women and Work in Nineteenth-Century Canada West: Black
Woman Teacher Mary Bibb –
• Weren't allowed to go into factory work until Hitler started the war': The
1920s to the 1940s –
• African Canadian Women and the State: 'Labour only, please'
No burden to carry : narratives of black working women in
Ontario, 1920s-1950s / Dionne Brand; with the assistance of Lois De
Shield and the Immigrant Women's Job Placement Centre.
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"Dionne Brand's No Burden to Carry powerfully resurrects moments in the lives of
a group of elder Black women in Canada. These remembered moments -
extraordinary implications for historical inquiry - these living voices bear an
insurrectionary message: the master shall not have his way, especially not the
maters of historical memory. The women whose narratives and voices we
read/hear offer us evidence in their own lives of women's places in the Garvey
movement, in the trade unions, in the church. They also offer us a host of
particular experiences leaving no doubt about the part Black women played in the
early women's movement. No Burden to Carry exquisitely weaves the threads of
autobiography and history into a flexible and meaningful relationship. Never again
will I be lost for names of Black women who have stood at the junctions of
Canadian history: There are Saxonia Shadd and Grace Fowler and Bee Allen and
Viola Aylestock - and many more names and many more stories."
- Professor Angela Y. Davis
Labour market economics : theory, evidence and policy in Canada
/ Dwayne Benjamin ... [et al.].
HD5728 .L29 2007 CASA LOMA LIBRARY
In Canada, most people earn a living at their jobs, that is, from the earnings they
receive from selling their labour services through the labour market. Nor
surprisingly, many of the most important issues of public policy hinge on our
understanding of how the labour market works.
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