Farm Workers in Western Canada - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Farm Workers in Western Canada write by Shirley A. McDonald. This book was released on 2017-01-16. Farm Workers in Western Canada available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bill 6, the government of Alberta’s contentious farm workers’ safety legislation, sparked public debate as no other legislation has done in recent years. The Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act provides a right to work safely and a compensation system for those killed or injured at work, similar to other provinces. In nine essays, contributors to Farm Workers in Western Canada place this legislation in context. They look at the origins, work conditions, and precarious lives of farm workers in terms of larger historical forces such as colonialism, land rights, and racism. They also examine how the rights and privileges of farm workers, including seasonal and temporary foreign workers, conflict with those of their employers, and reveal the barriers many face by being excluded from most statutory employment laws, sometimes in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Contributors: Gianna Argento, Bob Barnetson, Michael J. Broadway, Jill Bucklaschuk, Delna Contractor, Darlene A. Dunlop, Brynna Hambly (Takasugi), Zane Hamm, Paul Kennett, Jennifer Koshan, C.F. Andrew Lau, J. Graham Martinelli, Shirley A. McDonald, Robin C. McIntyre, Nelson Medeiros, Kerry Preibisch, Heidi Rolfe, Patricia Tomic, Ricardo Trumper, and Kay Elizabeth Turner.
Canada’s Labour Market Training System
Canada’s Labour Market Training System - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Canada’s Labour Market Training System write by Bob Barnetson. This book was released on 2018. Canada’s Labour Market Training System available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Harvest Wobblies
Harvest Wobblies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Harvest Wobblies write by Greg Hall. This book was released on 2001. Harvest Wobblies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Increased Mechanization and the expansion of new markets transformed the face of American farming in the early decades of the twentieth century, especially in the American West. These changes demanded a new kind of agricultural worker--gone was the local farmhand, replaced by a cheap and temporary labor force of migrant and seasonal workers. Greg Hall's fascinating book analyzes how "harvest Wobblies," members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), organized these men, women, and sometimes children who had become so essential and yet so exploited on the farms of the West. Although harvest Wobblies worked in nearly all the western states, their stongholds were the Great Plains, California, and the Pacific Northwest, regions where harmers developed monocrop agriculture and where seasonal labor was indispensable come harvest time. Like their IWW brethren in logging camps and mines, the harvest Wobblies combined an effort to improve the lives of workers with harger revolutionary goals. Harvest Wobblies personified most of the indelible features of IWW membership: they were the militant casual laborers of the American West, riding the rails, living in hobo jungles, preaching revolution, and facing repression with innovative strategies, impassioned speech, humor, and song. Through trial and error, Wobbly organizers eventually implemented the idea of an industrial union in agriculture and helped the IWW to establish itself as a powerful force to be reckoned with by employers in the West. In tracing the rise and the eventual fall of the harvest Wobblies, Greg Hall examines the diverse and changing nature of the agricultural work force. He offers a social and cultural history of a union uniquely suited to organizing tens of thousands of migrant and seasonal workers. Harvest Wobblies will appeal to a broad audience of readers interested in labor history, the American West, U.S. agricultural history, and the history of the IWW.
Farm Workers in Western Canada
Farm Workers in Western Canada - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Farm Workers in Western Canada write by Shirley A. McDonald. This book was released on 2016-10-24. Farm Workers in Western Canada available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In-depth look at social, political, and economic conditions affecting farm workers' struggles for their rights.
Health and Safety in Canadian Workplaces
Health and Safety in Canadian Workplaces - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Health and Safety in Canadian Workplaces write by Jason Foster. This book was released on 2016-07-31. Health and Safety in Canadian Workplaces available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Workplace injuries happen every day and can profoundly affect workers, their families, and the communities in which they live. This textbook is for workers and students looking for an introduction to injury prevention on the job. Foster and Barnetson bring the field into the twenty-first century by including discussions of how precarious employment, gender, and ill-health can be better handled in Canadian OHS.
