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  • Globalization and Labour in the Twenty-First Century

    by Verity Burgmann ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in International Political Economy
    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.Globalization has adversely affected working-class organization and mobilization, increasing inequality by redistribution upwards from labour to capital. However, workers around the world are challenging their ... Read more

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  • In Our Time

    Socialism and the rise of Labor, 1885 -1905

    by Verity Burgmann ...
    For many Australian working men and women in the closing days of the nineteenth century, SOCIALISM IN OUR TIME was no mere slogan. The deepening economic depression cut living standards, increased class conflict and tested the newborn trade unions to breaking point. In this climate, the message of socialist agitators made sense of the experience of the most vulnerable: capitalism was doomed, ... Read more

    $11.89 CAD

  • Power, Profit and Protest

    Australian social movements and globalisation

    by Verity Burgmann ...
    'a provocative must-read text for an engaged public, offering a distinctive Australian take on corporate globalism, and grounding this in a robust theory of social change that emphasises material power and interests, along with symbolic power and ideology'James Goodman, University of Technology SydneySocial movements transformed Western societies in the 1960s and 1970s: feminism, black rights, the ... Read more

    $67.32 CAD

  • Green Bans, Red Union

    The Saving of a City

    by Verity Burgmann, Meredith Burgmann ...
    At the height of the building boom in the 1970s, a remarkable campaign stopped billions of dollars worth of indiscriminate development that was turning Australian cities into concrete jungles. Enraging employers and politicians but delighting many in the wider community, the members of the NSW Builders Labourers' Federation risked their jobs to preserve buildings, bush and parkland. The direct ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Climate Politics and the Climate Movement in Australia

    by Hans A Baer, Verity Burgmann ...
    Climate change is the hottest topic of the twenty-first century and the climate movement a significant global social movement. This book examines the broad context of Australian climate politics and the place of the climate movement within it. Acting 'from above' are the most powerful forces; corporations and governments, both Labor and Coalition; with the media framing the issues. Climate ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Frontiers of Labor

    Comparative Histories of the United States and Australia

    by Shelton Stromquist, Robin Archer, Nikola Balnave, James R. Barrett, Bradley Bowden, Verity Burgmann, Robert Cherny, Peter Clayworth, Tom Goyens, Dianne Hall0, Benjamin Huf1, Jennie Jeppesen2, Marjorie A Jerrard3, Jeffrey A Johnson4, Diane Kirkby5, Elizabeth Malcolm6, Patrick O’Leary7, Greg Patmore8, Scott Stephenson0, Peta Stevenson-Clarke1, Nathan Wise2 ...
    Series Book 1 - Working Class in American History
    Alike in many aspects of their histories, Australia and the United States diverge in striking ways when it comes to their working classes, labor relations, and politics.Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist curate innovative essays that use transnational and comparative analysis to explore the two nations’ differences. The contributors examine five major areas: World War I’s impact on labor and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    Canadian Immigration and Immigration Policy, 1540–2015

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    Australia's Energy Transition

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