Working People in Alberta - 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 Working People in Alberta write by Alvin Finkel. This book was released on 2012. Working People in Alberta available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A political and economic analysis of the history of working people in Alberta.
Defying Expectations
Defying Expectations - 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 Defying Expectations write by Jason Foster. This book was released on 2018-01-26. Defying Expectations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In October 2005, Jason Foster, then a staff member of the Alberta Federation of Labour, was walking a picket line outside Lakeside Packers in Brooks, Alberta with the members of local 401. It was a first contract strike. And although the employees of the meat-packing plant—many of whom were immigrants and refugees—had chosen an unlikely partner in the United Food and Commercial Workers local, the newly formed alliance allowed the workers to stand their ground for a three-week strike that ended in the defeat of the notoriously anti-union company, Tyson Foods. It was but one example of a wide range of industries and occupations that local 401 organized over the last twenty years. In this study of UFCW 401, Foster investigates a union that has had remarkable success organizing a group of workers that North American unions often struggle to reach: immigrants, women, and youth. By examining not only the actions and behaviour of the local’s leadership and its members but also the narrative that accompanied the renewal of the union, Foster shows that both were essential components to legitimizing the leadership’s exercise of power and its unconventional organizing forces.
Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Canada
Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in 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 Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Canada write by Meenal Shrivastava. This book was released on 2015-10-01. Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Canada available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Democracy in Alberta: The Theory and Practice of a Quasi-Party System, published in 1953, C. B. Macpherson explored the nature of democracy in a province that was dominated by a single class of producers. At the time, Macpherson was talking about Alberta farmers, but today the province can still be seen as a one-industry economy—the 1947 discovery of oil in Leduc having inaugurated a new era. For all practical purposes, the oil-rich jurisdiction of Alberta also remains a one-party state. Not only has there been little opposition to a government that has been in power for over forty years, but Alberta ranks behind other provinces in terms of voter turnout, while also boasting some of the lowest scores on a variety of social welfare indicators. The contributors to Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy critically assess the political peculiarities of Alberta and the impact of the government’s relationship to the oil industry on the lives of the province’s most vulnerable citizens. They also examine the public policy environment and the entrenchment of neoliberal political ideology in the province. In probing the relationship between oil dependency and democracy in the context of an industrialized nation, Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy offers a crucial test of the “oil inhibits democracy” thesis that has hitherto been advanced in relation to oil-producing countries in the Global South. If reliance on oil production appears to undermine democratic participation and governance in Alberta, then what does the Alberta case suggest for the future of democracy in industrialized nations such as the United States and Australia, which are now in the process of exploiting their own substantial shale oil reserves? The environmental consequences of oil production have, for example, been the subject of much attention. Little is likely to change, however, if citizens of oil-rich countries cannot effectively intervene to influence government policy.
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.
Provincial Solidarities
Provincial Solidarities - 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 Provincial Solidarities write by David Frank. This book was released on 2013. Provincial Solidarities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provincial Solidarities tells the story of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour--part of the history of working class struggles in Canada.
