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  • Garbage Citizenship

    Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal

    by Rosalind Fredericks ...
    Over the last twenty-five years, garbage infrastructure in Dakar, Senegal, has taken center stage in the struggles over government, the value of labor, and the dignity of the working poor. Through strikes and public dumping, Dakar's streets have been periodically inundated with household garbage as the city's trash collectors and ordinary residents protest urban austerity. Often drawing on ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Precarious Worlds

    Contested Geographies of Social Reproduction

    by Kate Bezanson, Jessie Clark, Andrew Gorman-Murray, Oona Morrow, Kelly Dombroski, Susan Braedley, Meg Luxton, Jamie Winders, Brenda Parker, Katharyne Mitchell, Cindi Katz, Rosalind Fredericks, Brian Marks, Sallie Marston, Barbara Smith ...
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    This collection contributes to the theoretical literature on social reproduction—defined by Marx as the necessary labor to arrive the next day at the factory gate—and extended by feminist geographers and others into complex understandings of the relationship between paid labor and the unpaid work of daily life. The volume explores new terrain in social reproduction with a focus on the challenges ... Read more

    $146.99 CAD

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    Sherlock Holmes Halloween Special, The (The Vampire of Düsseldorf, Episode 4)

    by Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Fraser ...
    Narrated by Harriet Lowell, Edward Ashford, Laurence Whitby, Rosalind Hayes, Arthur Penhale, Reginald Fairfax, Frederick Moss, Philippa Dane, Dorothea Pryce ...
    Series Audiobook 4 - The Sherlock Holmes Halloween Special: The Vampire of Düsseldorf

    Unabridged

    26 min

    A young woman’s letter changes everything: Holmes, Watson and Detective Superintendent Ernst Gennat visit Marie Butlies, who only just escaped the man Düsseldorf calls the Vampire. Patiently, Holmes lets her tell her story – of a polite, perfectly ordinary gentleman, of a house with a dark door and of a path leading into a wood. For the first time the police have something they did not have before ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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    Sherlock Holmes Halloween Special, The (The Vampire of Düsseldorf, Episode 3)

    by Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Fraser ...
    Narrated by Edward Ashford, Laurence Whitby, Rosalind Hayes, Reginald Fairfax, Frederick Moss ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - The Sherlock Holmes Halloween Special: The Vampire of Düsseldorf

    Unabridged

    28 min

    Düsseldorf, day one: Holmes, Watson and Detective Superintendent Ernst Gennat drive through a city that behaves strikingly normally – people go to work, children go to school, as if there were no murderer at large. At the first crime scene Holmes counts steps instead of clues, in a café he teaches Gennat that observing does not mean suspecting, and on the big city map a network of routes, habits ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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  • More than Just Race

    Being Black and Poor in the Inner City

    by William Julius Wilson ...
    Series series Issues of Our Time
    A preeminent sociologist of race explains a groundbreaking new framework for understanding racial inequality, challenging both conservative and liberal dogma.In this timely and provocative contribution to the American discourse on race, William Julius Wilson applies an exciting new analytic framework to three politically fraught social problems: the persistence of the inner-city ghetto, the plight ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Forest and the Trees

    Sociology as Life, Practice, and Promise

    by Allan Johnson ...
    New Third Edition!If sociology could teach everyone just one thing, what would it be? The Forest and the Trees is one sociologist's response to the hypothetical-the core insight with the greatest potential to change how people see the world and themselves in relation to it.This Third Edition features:• Updated key references, data, resources, and examples, from global warming, Obama's election, ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Cult of Efficiency

    by Janice Gross Stein ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    We live in an age dominated by the cult of efficiency. Efficiency in the raging debate about public goods is often used as a code word to advance political agendas. When it is used correctly, efficiency is important: it must always be part of the conversation when resources are scarce and citizens and governments have important choices to make among competing priorities.Even when the language of ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Social Reproduction Theory

    Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression

    Edited by Tithi Bhattacharya ...
    Series series Mapping Social Reproduction Theory
    This groundbreaking collection explores the profound power of Social Reproduction Theory to deepen our understanding of everyday life under capitalism. While many Marxists tend to focus on the productive economy, this book focuses on issues such as child care, health care, education, family life and the roles of gender, race and sexuality, all of which are central to understanding the relationship ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Seeking Spatial Justice

    by Edward W. Soja ...
    Series Book 16 - Globalization and Community
    In 1996, the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union, a grassroots advocacy organization, won a historic legal victory against the city’s Metropolitan Transit Authority. The resulting consent decree forced the MTA for a period of ten years to essentially reorient the mass transit system to better serve the city’s poorest residents. A stunning reversal of conventional governance and planning in urban America, ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development

    by Ian Scoones ...
    The message of Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development is clear: livelihoods approaches are an essential lens on questions of rural development, but these need to be situated in a better understanding of political economy. The book looks at the role of social institutions and the politics of policy, as well as issues of identity, gender and generation. The relationships between ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • A Family Matter

    Citizenship, Conjugal Relationships, and Canadian Immigration Policy

    by Megan Gaucher ...
    How do we define family? In an attempt to police incoming migrants, the Harper government adopted a strict definition of family to limit access to citizenship for certain immigrants. Even when immigrants had no intention of sponsoring family members, their familial networks affected their entry to Canada, resulting in differentiated treatment of families living within and beyond Canadian borders ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Liberating Economics

    Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and Globalization

    by Drucilla Barker, Susan F. Feiner ...
    Series series Advances In Heterodox Economics
    Liberating Economics draws on central concepts from women's studies scholarship to construct a feminist understanding of the economic roles of families, caring labor, motherhood, paid and unpaid labor, poverty, the feminization of labor, and the consequences of globalization. Barker and Feiner consistently recognize the importance of social location -- gender, race, class, sexual identity, and ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD