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Support the Monitor Our content is fiercely open source and we never paywall our website. The support of our community makes this possible. Make a donation of $35 or more and receive The Monitor magazine for one full year and a donation receipt for the full amount of your gift. Ricardo Tranjan, CCPA Ontario senior researcher: I got my hands on a review copy of Andrew Crosby’s new book, Resisting Eviction: Domicide and the Financialization of Rental Housing.
To renew working class resistance, the labour movement must be democratized
Since its initial publication in 1988, From Consent to Coercion: The Continuing Assault on Labour by Bryan Evans, Carlo Fanelli, Don Swartz, and the late, Leo Panitch has offered leftists an exhaustive history of the onslaughts against trade union rights and freedoms in Canada. The book charts the increasingly brutal setbacks and depredations experienced by organized labour, from the post-war decades to today.
University of Toronto Press
From Consent to Coercion examines the increasing assault against trade union rights and freedoms in Canada by federal and provincial governments. Centring the struggles of Canadian unionized workers, this book explores the diminution of the welfare state and the impacts that this erosion has had on broader working-class rights and standards of living.
To Renew Working-Class Resistance, the Labour Movement Must Be Democratized
Much of what was achieved through the class struggles of the 1930s to 1970s has dissolved. So-called Keynesian capitalism was predicated upon a set of compromises between capital and labour that accepted organized labour as a junior partner in the management of the political economy. Social democracy, as the major political orientation within working-class politics, was instrumental here.
To Renew Working-Class Resistance, the Labour Movement Must Be Democratized
Labour • March 7, 2023 • Bryan Evans, Carlo Fanelli, Leo Panitch and Donald Swartz Since its initial publication in 1988, From Consent to Coercion: The Continuing Assault on Labour by Bryan Evans, Carlo Fanelli, Don Swartz, and the late, Leo Panitch has offered leftists an exhaustive history of the onslaughts against trade union rights and freedoms in Canada. The book charts the increasingly brutal setbacks and depredations experienced by organized labour, from the postwar decades to today.
Grover and Swartz: Fare-free transit is part of the solution, Ottawa
Advertisement 1 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Many people are hyper-focused on the costs of going fare-free. But what about the benefits? Article content Inflation has us all looking for relief. That’s why it’s been so disingenuous to hear the mayor, media outlets, and mayoral candidates Mark Sutcliffe and Bob Chiarelli dismiss the idea of free transit.
Labour Day: Signs of Renewal?
Evert Hoogers, Donald Swartz & Rosemary Warskett Labour September 5, 2016 Photo by Fibonacci Blue Labour Day Weekend is upon us, and many union activists and their families will be out marching and picnicking, joining with brothers and sisters from other unions in a show of solidarity. While their participation is heartfelt there is no doubt many of them are asking what is there to celebrate?
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