Canadian Labour Law

Canadian Labour Law
Author: George W. Adams
Publisher: Canada Law Book
Total Pages:
Release: 1993
Genre: Labor laws and legislation
ISBN: 9780888041296

Canada’s Labour Market Training System

Canada’s Labour Market Training System
Author: Bob Barnetson
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2018
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1771992417

How does the current labour market training system function and whose interests does it serve? In this introductory textbook, Bob Barnetson wades into the debate between workers and employers, and governments and economists to investigate the ways in which labour power is produced and reproduced in Canadian society. After sifting through the facts and interpretations of social scientists and government policymakers, Barnetson interrogates the training system through analysis of the political and economic forces that constitute modern Canada. This book not only provides students of Canada’s division of labour with a general introduction to the main facets of labour-market training—including skills development, post-secondary and community education, and workplace training—but also encourages students to think critically about the relationship between training systems and the ideologies that support them.

Canadian Employment Law

Canadian Employment Law
Author: Stacey Reginald Ball
Publisher: Canada Law Book
Total Pages:
Release: 1996-05-01
Genre: Labor laws and legislation
ISBN: 9780888042187

Union Learning

Union Learning
Author: Jeffery M. Taylor
Publisher: Thompson Educational Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Labor unions and education
ISBN: 9781550771176

Over 100,000 Canadian workers participate annually in educational programs conducted by their union or the broader labour organizations to which their union belongs. Union-based education is the most significant non-vocational education available to working people. This activity has been going on for decades, and Jeffery Taylor's Union Learning: Canadian Labour Education in the Twentieth Century is the first comprehensive history of it. Union Learning chronicles the rise and decline of the Workers' Educational Association, the development of internal union educational programs, the consolidation of the Canadian Labour Congress's educational system after 1956, the origin and growth of the Labour College of Canada, and the patchy history of university and college involvement in labour education. Taylor argues that a new emphasis on broad-based and activist education today promises to rekindle the sense of an educational movement that was present in the labour movement in the 1930s and 1940s. The book includes a number of illustrative sidebars and photographs. He has developed a website containing images, video and other materials related to the history of labour education in Canada: http: //unionlearning.athabascau.ca

Magnificent Fight

Magnificent Fight
Author: Dennis Lewycky
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2019-04-29T00:00:00Z
Genre: History
ISBN: 1773630989

In May 1919, 30,000 Winnipeg workers walked away from their jobs, shutting down large factories, forcing businesses to close and bringing major industries to a halt. Mounted police and hired security, at the behest of the ruling class, violently ended the protest after six weeks. Two men were killed. What started as trade union revolt, the Winnipeg General Strike became a mass protest and was branded as a revolution. In Magnificent Fight, Dennis Lewycky lays out the history of this iconic event, which remains the biggest and longest strike in Canadian history. He analyzes the social, political and economic conditions leading up to the strike. He also illustrates the effects the strike had on workers, unions and all three levels of government in the following decades. Far from a simple retelling of the General Strike, Magnificent Fight speaks to the power of workers’ solidarity and social organization. And Lewycky reveals the length the capitalist class and the state went to in protecting the status quo. By retelling the story of the Strike through the eyes of those who witnessed it, Lewycky’s account is both educational and entertaining.

Jobs with Inequality

Jobs with Inequality
Author: John Peters
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2022-06-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1442665122

Income inequality has skyrocketed in Canada over the past few decades. The rich have become richer, while the average household income has deteriorated and job quality has plummeted. Common explanations for these trends point to globalization, technology, or other forces largely beyond our control. But, as Jobs with Inequality shows, there is nothing inevitable about inequality. Rather, runaway inequality is the result of politics and policies - what governments have done to aid the rich and boost finance and what they have not done to uphold the interests of workers. Drawing on new tax and income data, John Peters tells the story of how inequality is unfolding in Canada today by examining post-democracy, financialization, and labour market deregulation. Timely and novel, Jobs with Inequality explains how and why business and government have rewritten the rules of the economy to the advantage of the few, and considers why progressive efforts to reverse these trends have so regularly run aground.

Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada

Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada
Author: Larry Savage
Publisher: Labour in Canada
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2021-10-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781773634869

This updated multidisciplinary collection of essays explores the strategic political possibilities and challenges facing the Canadian labour movement in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.