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  • Co-operation, Learning and Co-operative Values

    Contemporary issues in education

    Edited by Tom Woodin ...
    The rapidity of change in education has intensified in recent years. With the emergence of ‘co-operative schools’ and a new framework focusing heavily on co-operation, a direct challenge to ways of thinking about education, at both school and university level, has developed.Co-operation, Learning and Co-operative Values addresses the urgent need to describe, analyse and assess the growth of co ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Working-class writing and publishing in the late twentieth century

    Literature, culture and community

    by Tom Woodin ...
    Series series Manchester University Press
    From the early 1970s, working class writing and publishing in local communities rapidly proliferated into a national movement. This book is the first full evaluation of these developments and opens up new perspectives on literature, culture, class and identity over the past 50 years. Its origins are traced in the context of international shifts in class politics, civil rights, personal expression ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Co-operative College and a Century of Social Change

    Internationalism, Co-operativism and Learning

    by Tom Woodin, Keith Vernon, Linda Shaw ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning
    This open access book explores the Co-operative College’s distinctive adult educational tradition over the past century as it provided education for co-operative leaders, employees and members in addition to developing a range of wider educational initiatives and ideas internationally. The Co-operative College is a British educational charity established in 1919, founded on co-operative principles ... Read more

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  • Despised

    Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class

    by Paul Embery ...
    The typical contemporary Labour MP is almost certain to be a university-educated Europhile who is more comfortable in the leafy enclaves of north London than the party’s historic heartlands. As a result, Labour has become radically out of step with the culture and values of working-class Britain.Drawing on his background as a firefighter and trade unionist from Dagenham, Paul Embery argues that ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Planning Polity

    Planning, Government and the Policy Process

    by Mark Tewdwr-Jones ...
    Series series RTPI Library Series
    Planning is not a technical and value free activity. Planning is an overt political system that creates both winners and losers. The Planning Polity is a book that considers the politics of development and decision-making, and political conflicts between agencies and institutions within British town and country planning. The focus of assessment is how British planning has been formulated since the ... Read more

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  • Held in contempt

    What’s wrong with the House of Commons?

    by Hannah White ...
    The House of Commons is increasingly held in contempt by the British public. From attending parties during the Covid-19 lockdown to taking payment for lobbying, MPs undermine their credibility by acting as if the rules they set for others should not apply to them. Still far from representative of the country they govern from the ancient and crumbling Palace of Westminster, MPs appear detached from ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • The New Snobbery

    by David Skelton ...
    "Timely, insightful and impassioned." – Tim Shipman"David Skelton is, once again, excellent … This brilliant book is essential reading." – Nick Timothy"One of our most prescient and empathetic social and political writers. Highly recommended." – Jason Cowley"Skelton gets it … A timely must-read which speaks to head and heart." – Penny Mordaunt MP"Vital … Skelton makes a compelling ca... ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Little Platoons

    How a revived One Nation can empower England's forgotten towns and redraw the political map

    by David Skelton ...
    Brexit – a revolutionary moment in British politics. Voters in long-forgotten English towns made their disenchantment clear, overwhelmingly voting to 'take back control' from a remote and defective economic system. Despite this decisive message in 2016, the concerns of these forgotten towns have continued to be all but ignored.David Skelton grew up in Consett, a north-eastern town where the steel ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Richer, The Poorer

    How Britain Enriched the Few and Failed the Poor. A 200-Year History

    by Stewart Lansley ...
    The Richer, The Poorer charts the rollercoaster history of both rich and poor and the mechanisms that link wealth and impoverishment. This landmark book shows how, for 200 years, Britain’s most powerful elites have enriched themselves at the expense of surging inequality, mass poverty and weakened social resilience.Stewart Lansley reveals how Britain’s model of ‘extractive capitalism’ – with a ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Caledonian Dreaming

    The Quest for a Different Scotland

    by Gerry Hassan ...
    Series Book 1 - Open Scotland
    A different Scotland is possible. Caledonian Dreaming: The Quest for a Different Scotland offers a penetrating and original way forward for Scotland beyond the current independence debate. It identifies the myths of modern Scotland, describes what they say and why they need to be seen as myths. Hassan argues that Scotland is already changing, as traditional institutions and power decline and new ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Snakes and Ladders

    The great British social mobility myth

    by Professor Selina Todd ...
    'Intensely readable... A stimulating and necessary redress' David Kynaston, SpectatorPoliticians say social mobility is real... this book proves otherwise.From servants' children who became clerks in Victorian Britain, to managers made redundant by the 2008 financial crash, travelling up or down the social ladder has been a fact of British life for more than a century.Drawing on hundreds of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Arise

    Power, Strategy and Union Resurgence

    by Jane Holgate ...
    Series series Wildcat
    'Jane Holgate is a brilliant thinker' - Jane McAleveyIn Arise, Jane Holgate argues that unions must revisit their understanding of power in order to regain influence and confront capital. Drawing on two decades of research and organising experience, Holgate examines the structural inertia of today’s unions from a range of perspectives: from strategic choice, leadership and union democracy to ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus