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The Co-workplace
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 164

The Co-workplace

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: UBC Press

Thanks to telecommunications breakthroughs, almost half of all jobs in North America and Europe could be performed away from a traditional office. This title explores a new type of neighbourhood-based facility offering the benefits of remote work while maintaining boundaries between work and home.

International Bibliography of Sociology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 736

International Bibliography of Sociology

IBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institution whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge on the social sciences.

Changing Women, Changing History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 269

Changing Women, Changing History

Changing Women, Changing History is a bibliographic guide to the scholarship, both English and French, on Canadian's women's history. Organized under broad subject headings, and accompanied by author and subject indices it is accessible and comprehensive.

The New Practical Guide to Canadian Political Economy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

The New Practical Guide to Canadian Political Economy

The New Practical Guide to Canadian Political Economy is a handy reference to the vast range of research and writing that political economists in Canada have completed to the date of publication. The book is divided into twenty-five subject bibliographies, each one compiled and introduced by an expert in the field. The overall range of subjects includes economic development in Canada, Canada's external economic relations, regional disparities and regional development, social and economic classes, women, Native peoples, politics and the Canadian state, nationalism, culture and political thought. The book is indexed by author, and includes a helpful shortlist of the "staples" in Canadian political economy. Published in 1985, The New Practical Guide to Canadian Political Economy remains a useful reference to some of the classic literature of the discipline.

The Seam Allowance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 148

The Seam Allowance

Study of working conditions of woman workers who do sewing work at home for the clothing industry in Canada - reviews historical background to homeworking; examines, on the basis of interviews, low wages, employees attitudes, occupational health hazards from fabric dust, and the mental stress of combining homemaker roles with paid work; illustrates how workers' isolation and their need to work at home encourage unfair labour practices; critically examines labour legislation controls. ILO mentioned. Bibliography and photographs.

Housing As If People Mattered
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 338

Housing As If People Mattered

From the Introduction: Consider these two places: Walking into Green Acres, you immediately sense that you have entered an oasis-traffic noise left behind, negative urban distractions out of sight, children playing and running on the grass, adults puttering on plant-filled balconies. Signs of life and care for the environment abound. Innumerable social and physical clues communicate to visitors and residents alike a sense of home and neighborhood. This is a place that people are proud of, a place that children will remember in later years with nostalgia and affection, a place that just feels "good." Contrast this with Southside Village. Something does not feel quite right. It is hard to find...

Unhomely States
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 414

Unhomely States

Unhomely States is the first collection of foundational essays of Canadian postcolonial theory. The essays span the period from 1965 to the present day and approach broad issues of Canadian culture and society. They represent the impassioned conflicts, dissonances, and intersections among postcolonial theorists in English Canada. Theories of Canadian postcolonialism are various and often contending. The questions proliferate: Is Canada postcolonial? Who in Canada is postcolonial? Are some Canadians more postcolonial than others? Together, the essays in this collection demonstrate both the historical development of this vigorous debate and its most prominent current perspectives. The antholog...

The Progeny of Israel
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 282

The Progeny of Israel

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1987
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Out of the Cellar and Into the Parlour
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 124

Out of the Cellar and Into the Parlour

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1980
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Canadiana
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 540

Canadiana

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1981
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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