Shatters the myth that there is no alternative to free-market capitalism

The Montreal Shtetl

There is a lot of money to be made through eviction. That is why landlords draw from a playbook o...

Democracy is in crisis. As neo-Nazis, right-wing populists, and authoritarians, old and new, stak...

Roscoe Fillmore was an outspoken advocate of radical political change in Canada. Written by his g...

Feminists Under Fire is about women living and working in conflict zones. Focusing on the civil w...

'Nothing is going to go wrong.' -- Mike Harris, 2001 Privatization of power soon became one of th...

'Memoirs of a Media Maverick' is an insider's critical account of the modern media. Richardson te...

Between May, 1976, while Mao was still alive, and 1997, when Deng Xioaping died, was a time of tr...

Jamie Swift combines sharp-eyed journalism that brings out the nuances of daily life with a penet...

Based on in-depth oral interviews with local residents, and rich archival sources, 'We Lived A Li...

Once known for peacekeeping, Canada is becoming a militarized nation whose apostles-the New Warri...

It took Julie Macfarlane a lifetime to say the words out loud--the words that finally broke the c...

Art has always played a significant role in the history of the labour movement. Songs, stories, p...

Canadian youth face uncertainty and risk as they emerge from their education to enter an economy ...

Since 1996, in more than a dozen cities, labour and community groups have organised some of the l...

What is a Canadian critical race feminism?As the contributors to this book note, the intervention...

'An Unauthorized Biography of the World' explores the practice of engaged oral history: the diffi...

Chodos and Hamovitch weave a blend of anecdote, quotation, and scholarship to provide an incisive...

In 'Brink of Reality,' Peter Steven examines the convergence of video-art and social-issue docume...

When Ann Hansen was arrested in 1983 along with the four other members of the radical anarchist g...

Jake is celebrating his tenth birthday. That's a remarkable feat, because at birth he was given o...

This lavishly illustrated large format book is a celebration of water and its many roles in the h...

Sarah Hastings is a rookie cop who works the night shift in Amber Forest, a small rural town nest...

On Third World streets or First World televisions, Latin America's children are seen but seldom l...

John Walker provides an account of efforts carried out under the auspices of the United Nations t...

Where there are pigeons, there is resistance. Forget everything you think you know about nature. ...

Since it was first published in 1991, few books have come close to capturing the depth and breadt...

Would you believe that RCMP operatives used to spy on Tupperware parties? In the 1950s and '60s t...

'Premature Bonanza' is the story of Bay Street's greatest running drama: the struggle by Inco Ltd...

With informative discussion of safer sex and sexuality, HIV testing, treatment, public policy, an...

It's a pretty long story, Primo Levi tells a classroom of children, so I'll try to make it simple.

On February 6, 1920, a small group of public service employees met for the first time to form a p...

In this handbook, experienced health activists critically examine occupational causes of cancer, ...

Frank Colantonio's story stands as potent testimony to a life dedicated to family, community, and...

Many students in North America today study and take courses through computer delivered or 'distan...

McFarlane shows how Canadians have connected to a region blessed with riches but often condemned ...

In the last half-century, people over sixty-five have become labelled as 'seniors' and set apart ...

Swift traces the history of forest abuse and misuse, and looks at the much-touted contemporary co...

Using Hamilton's local history to tell the wider story of the North American working-class, Lunch...

The Vimy Trap provides a powerful probe of commemoration cultures. This subtle, fast-paced work o...

In 1978, when workers at a nearby phosphate refinery learned that the ore they processed was cont...

'Booze' is a history of Canadian drink and drinking from the European conquest to the present. Fi...

Embrace worker rights and build a better democracy

Weller takes the reader on a tour of the Great Lakes region, tracing its natural history since th...

'Writers in Prison' is an enthralling study of writers who are sent to prison, and of the metapho...

A first-hand account of the victories and the challenges of LGBT activism over a forty year perio...

A lively and wide-ranging work on the history of the North American honeymoon, and, of necessity,...