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 experiences of people in Kingston and...
Working class
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Author:COOKSON, CatherineSummary:Even the approach of Christmas, 1913, fails to excite the restless Agnes Conway, the twenty-two-year-old manager of her feckless father's adjoining sweet and tobacconist shops. There are dark secrets in Arthur Conway's past,...
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In a relatively short amount of time, China has become the second largest economy in the world and is soon poised to overtake the US. In 1978, when China introduced its economic reforms, its GDP was 214 billion USD; in 2019, it is...
- Author:Brown, LarrySummary:
Down in Memphis and northern Mississippi, some wildly diverse people are looking for love--but not necessarily in all the right places. Sex-starved alcoholics, college professors, hookers, cops, sailors, runaways, gangsters, and some...
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Author:High, Steven, MacKinnon, Lachlan, Perchard, AndrewSummary:Since the 1970s, the closure of mines, mills, and factories has marked a rupture in working-class lives. The Deindustrialized World interrogates the process of industrial ruination, from the first impact of layoffs in metropolitan...
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The cinder path from the Northumberland farmhouse symbolised defeat for Charlie Macfell. People saw him as a born loser, who always got the dirty end of the stick. At the root of it were boyhood humiliations by his brutal father, but...
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Author:Zola, ÉmileSummary:Immerse yourself in the world of Florent Quenu, a man wrongly accused of plotting to overthrow the French government and exiled from his beloved Paris. As he makes his way back home, Quenu envelopes us a richly detailed commentary on...
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Robert Currie's Shimmers of Light: New and Selected Poems uses the vernacular of ordinary working people to tell stories and sing songs of small-town prairie life. Like Alden Nowlan, or more recently, Billy Collins, this poet constructs...
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Author:Thomas, JoanSummary:Winner, Commonwealth Writers Prize, Canada and the Caribbean, Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and On the Same Page, Manitoba Reads. Shortlisted, Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book, Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, and...
- Author:Arsenault, KerriSummary:
" This is a listen for anyone interested in small-town America, how it's changed, and why it matters...Though Arsenault may not be a professional narrator, her passion for these important stories comes through with just the...
- Author:London, JackSummary:
London tells the story of Martin Eden, a young sailor who, through self-education and determination, rises out of poverty to passionately pursue a dream of literary and intellectual achievement. But soon he discovers a life of success...
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A journalist describes the years she worked in low-paying domestic work under wealthy employers, contrasting the privileges of the upper-middle class to the realities of the overworked laborers supporting them.
- Author:Heron, CraigSummary:
Lunch-Bucket Lives takes the reader on a bumpy ride through the history of Hamilton's working people from the 1890s to the 1930s. It ambles along city streets, peers through kitchen doors and factory windows, marches up the steps...
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Author:Maugham, W. SomersetSummary:Presents the story about a young, working girl in a poor London neighborhood. Her sad story is the story of poverty everywhere.
- Author:Brown, LarrySummary:
Presents a story about growing up in rural Mississippi's working class.
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"Canadian labour history and working-class struggles are brought to life in this anthology of nine short comics, each one accompanied by an informative preface. Each comic showcases the inspiring efforts and determination of...
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The work of Bryan D. Palmer, one of North America's leading historians, has influenced the fields of labour history, social history, discourse analysis, communist history, and Canadian history, as well as the theoretical frameworks...
- Author:Graphic History CollectiveSummary:
Art has always played a significant role in the history of the labour movement. Songs, stories, poems, pamphlets, and comics, have inspired workers to take action against greedy bosses and helped shape ideas of a more equal world. They...
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