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  • Migrant Work by Another Name

    Differential Inclusion and Precarity in Canada's International Mobility Program

    by Leah Faith Vosko ...
    Migrant Work by Another Name explores the complexities of Canada's evolving international migration and employment policy landscape. It critically examines the shift towards “mobility” programs under the recently inaugurated International Mobility Program (IMP). This shift occurs alongside the contraction of certain streams within Canada’s long-standing Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP). The ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Disrupting Deportability

    Transnational Workers Organize

    by Leah F. Vosko ...
    In an original and striking study of migration management in operation, Disrupting Deportability highlights obstacles confronting temporary migrant workers in Canada seeking to exercise their labor rights. Leah F. Vosko explores the effects of deportability on Mexican nationals participating in Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP).Vosko follows the decade-long legal and political ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Change and Continuity

    Canadian Political Economy in the New Millennium

    Edited by Carlo Fanelli, Olena Lyubchenko, Mark Thomas, Leah Vosko ...
    Series Book 248 - Carleton Library Series
    In a period characterized by growing social inequality, precarious work, the legacies of settler colonialism, and the emergence of new social movements, Change and Continuity presents innovative interdisciplinary research as a guide to understanding Canada's political economy and a contribution to progressive social change.Assessing the legacy of the Canadian political economy tradition - a broad ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Managing the Margins

    Gender, Citizenship, and the International Regulation of Precarious Employment

    by Leah F. Vosko ...
    This book explores the precarious margins of contemporary labour markets. Over the last few decades, there has been much discussion of a shift from full-time permanent jobs to higher levels of part-time and temporary employment and self-employment. Despite such attention, regulatory approaches have not adapted accordingly. Instead, in the absence of genuine alternatives, old regulatory models are ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Managing the Margins

    Gender, Citizenship, and the International Regulation of Precarious Employment

    by Leah F. Vosko ...
    This book explores the precarious margins of contemporary labour markets. Over the last few decades, there has been much discussion of a shift from full-time permanent jobs to higher levels of part-time and temporary employment and self-employment. Despite such attention, regulatory approaches have not adapted accordingly. Instead, in the absence of genuine alternatives, old regulatory models are ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Transnational Employment Strain in a Global Health Pandemic

    Migrant Farmworkers in Canada

    by Leah F. Vosko, Tanya Basok, Cynthia Spring ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The 2020-22 COVID-19 pandemic reinforced inequalities between the global North and South, amplifying pre-existing disparities between migrant and citizen/permanent resident workers in receiving and sending states worldwide. In contexts such as Canada, it also underscored that many workers in occupations and sectors deemed “essential” enough to be exempt from stay-at-home orders and other public ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Closing the Enforcement Gap

    Improving Employment Standards Protections for People in Precarious Jobs

    by Leah Faith Vosko ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy
    The nature of employment is changing: low wage jobs are increasingly common, fewer workers belong to unions, and workplaces are being transformed through the growth of contracting-out, franchising, and extended supply chains. Closing the Enforcement Gap offers a comprehensive analysis of the enforcement of employment standards in Ontario.Adopting mixed methods, this work includes qualitative ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Liberating Temporariness?

    Migration, Work, and Citizenship in an Age of Insecurity

    by Valerie Preston, Robert Latham, Leah Vosko ...
    Liberating Temporariness? explores the complex ways in which temporariness is being institutionalized as a condition of life for a growing number of people worldwide. The collection emphasizes contemporary developments, but also provides historical context on nation-state membership as the fundamental means for accessing rights in an era of expanding temporariness - in recognition of why pathways ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Gender and the Contours of Precarious Employment

    Edited by Leah F. Vosko, Martha MacDonald, Iain Campbell ...
    Series series Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics
    Precarious employment presents a monumental challenge to the social, economic, and political stability of labour markets in industrialized societies and there is widespread consensus that its growth is contributing to a series of common social inequalities, especially along the lines of gender and citizenship.The editors argue that these inequalities are evident at the national level across ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

  • Change and Continuity

    Canadian Political Economy in the New Millennium

    Edited by Carlo Fanelli, Olena Lyubchenko, Mark Thomas, Leah Vosko ...
    Series Book 248 - Carleton Library Series
    In a period characterized by growing social inequality, precarious work, the legacies of settler colonialism, and the emergence of new social movements, Change and Continuity presents innovative interdisciplinary research as a guide to understanding Canada's political economy and a contribution to progressive social change.Assessing the legacy of the Canadian political economy tradition - a broad ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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  • Power and Resistance

    Critical Thinking about Canadian Social Issues, Sixth Edition

    by Wayne Antony ...
    How do we make sense of the social problems that continue to plague Canadian society? Our understanding of issues such as poverty, racism, violence, homophobia, crime and pollution stems from our view of how society is structured. From the dominant neoliberal perspective, social problems arise from individuals making poor choices. From a critical perspective, however, these social troubles are ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Should Rich Nations Help the Poor?

    by David Hulme ...
    Series series Global Futures
    In the past decade, the developed world has spent almost US$ 2 trillion on foreign aid for poorer countries. Yet 1.2 billion people still live in extreme poverty and around 2.9 billion cannot meet their basic human needs.But should rich nations continue to help the poor? In this short book, leading global poverty analyst David Hulme explains why helping the world’s neediest communities is both the ... Read more

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