It's a very short trip from the limousine seat to the curb. Jim Mann never missed a payroll for the dozen men who worked for his flourishing landscaping business he built from the ground up....
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Author: Balmer, Brice, Dineen, Mira, Swift, JamieSummary: -
Author: Swift, JamieSummary:Jamie Swift combines sharp-eyed journalism that brings out the nuances of daily life with a penetrating analysis of jobless recovery. He describes the emerging world of work through the eyes and...
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Author: Swift, Jamie, Tomlinson, BrianSummary:Ten activists, scholars, and writers analyze contemporary development issues linking Canada and the Third World, and provide an in-depth critique of Canada's role in perpetuating poverty in...
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Political science -
Author: Swift, JamieSummary:In this concise, critical study of civil society, Jamie Swift sketches the history of the concept from its roots in the eighteenth century, to the present. Swift looks at its practical application...
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Social science -
Author: Swift, Jamie, Stewart, KeithSummary:Privatization of power soon became one of the biggest political disasters in Ontario history. Hydro reveals a train wreck that was decades in the making. First there was blind faith in the nuclear...
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Author: McKay, Ian, Swift, JamieSummary:The story of the bloody 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge is, according to many of today's tellings, a heroic founding moment for Canada. This noble, birth-of-a-nation narrative is regularly applied...
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, War and military -
Author: Swift, Jamie, McKay, IanSummary:The story of the bloody 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge is, according to many of today's tellings, a heroic founding moment for Canada. This noble, birth-of-a-nation narrative is regularly applied to...
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Author: Power, Elaine, Swift, JamieSummary:
Inequality is up. Decent work is down. Free market fundamentalism has been exposed as a tragic failure. In a job market upended by COVID-19—with Canadians caught in the grip of precarious labour,...
Genre: Social science