Analyzes scandals in high-profile institutions, from Wall Street and the Catholic Church to Major League Baseball, while evaluating how an elite American meritocracy rose throughout the past half-century before succumbing to corruption...
Economic conditions
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Author:Hayes, ChristopherSummary: -
Author:Robinson, RandallSummary:A national best-selling author and founder of the TransAfrica forum, Randall Robinson is one of the most respected voices of the African-American community. In this powerful book, he convincingly argues that African Americans must fight...
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Author:Gates, MelindaSummary:For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission to find solutions for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live. Throughout this journey, one thing has become increasingly clear to her: If you want to lift a...
- Author:Battery RadioSummary:
When the North Atlantic cod fishery collapsed in the 1990's, it catapulted over 30,000 fishers out of work - the largest layoff in Canadian history. This is the story of two brothers in a remote community who had built their own fishing...
- Author:DeRiviere, LindaSummary:
The Healing Journey offers a startling analysis of intimate partner abuse and its negative effects on women’s earnings, education and vocational training as well as in the labour market itself. Victims of abuse often suffer from chronic...
- Author:Rubin, JeffSummary:
Real wages in North America have not risen since the 1970s. Union membership has collapsed. Full-time employment is beginning to look like a quaint idea from the distant past. If it seems that the middle class is in retreat around the...
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Author:Sachs, Jeffrey D.Summary: - Author:Deresiewicz, WilliamSummary:
A deeply researched warning about how the digital economy threatens artists' lives and work--the music, writing, and visual art that sustain our souls and societies--from an award-winning essayist and criticThere are two stories...
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Author:Magnus, GeorgeSummary:Under President Xi Jinping, China has become a large and confident power both at home and abroad, but the country also faces serious challenges. In this critical take on China's future, economist George Magnus explores four key traps...
- Author:Gordillo, José M.Summary:
Peasant Wars in Bolivia reveals the active political role played by the Cochabamba valley peasants during the 1952-64 revolutionary period in Bolivia from a non-state perspective. Based on contemporary research in social, political, and...
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Author:Mander, JerrySummary:Author and cultural critic Jerry Mander and coeditor Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, a leader of the global Indigenous peoples' movement and chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, have gathered an impressive...
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Author:Harris, MalcolmSummary:A millennial investigates why his generation is worse off economically than their parents in this devastating portrait of what it means to be young in America. Pushing aside stereotypes, what actually unites this generation? The short...
- Author:Hilton, Carol AnneSummary:
Indigenomics lays out the tenets of the emerging Indigenous economy, built around relationships, multigenerational stewardship, and care for all. Includes voices of leading First Nations business leaders. Powerful reading for business...
- Author:Jones, KimberlySummary:
A breakdown of the economic and social injustices facing Black people and other marginalized citizens inspired by political activist Kimberly Jones' viral video, "How Can We Win." "So if I played four hundred rounds...
- Author:Düppe, TillSummary:
Notre héritage culturel regorge d'idées à propos de l'économie et, aujourd'hui encore, les débats font rage sur le rôle et les mérites respectifs de l'argent et de la richesse, sur la justice et l'égalité des...
- Author:O'Donnell, DarrenSummary:
We live in an "adultitarian" state, where the rules are based on very adult priorities and understandings of reality. Young people are disenfranchised and powerless; they understand they're subject to an authoritarian...
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Author:Poelzer, Greg, Coates, KennethSummary:Canada is a country founded on relationships and treaties between Indigenous people and newcomers. Although recent court cases have strengthened Aboriginal rights, the cooperative spirit of the treaties is being lost as Canadians engage...
- Author:Luby, BrittanySummary:
Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory explores Canada's hydroelectric boom in the Lake of the Woods area. It complicates narratives of increasing affluence in postwar Canada, revealing that the inverse...
- Author:Forget, Evelyn. L.Summary:
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the idea of providing a basic income to everyone in Canada who needs it was already gaining broad support. Then, in response to a crisis that threatened to put millions out of work, the federal government...
