Abstract

Braedley, Susan and Meg Luxton, eds. Neoliberalism and Everyday Life. Scott, James C. The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia. Soederberg, Susanne. Corporate Power and Ownership in Contemporary Capitalism: The Politics of Resistance and Domination. Lyon, Sarah and Mark Moberg, eds. Fair Trade and Social Justice: Global Ethnographies. Santucci, Antonio A. Antonio Gramsci. Thomas, Peter D. The Gramscian Moment: Philosophy, Hegemony and Marxism. Kramer, Reinhold and Tom Mitchell. When the State Trembled: How A.J. Andrews and the Citizens’ Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike. Francis, Daniel. Seeing Reds: The Red Scare of 1918-19, Canada’s First War on Terror. Gordon, Todd. Imperialist Canada. Yee, Jessica, ed. Feminism for Real: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism. Aronsen, Lawrence. City of Love and Revolution: Vancouver in the Sixties. Mills, Sean. The Empire Within: Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montréal.

Highlights

  • The first is by public policy advisor to the Canadian government, Leonard Marsh. He argued for the formation of a vigorous welfare state. In his 1943 Report on Social Security for Canada, Marsh noted that wages—even good wages—were not enough to provide security for most Canadians, It is impossible to establish a wage that will allow every worker and his family to meet the heavy disabilities of serious illness, prolonged unemployment, accident and premature death

  • Pinto and Kuttai criticize the bureaucracies in hospitals and social services and how they deal with disabled mothers

  • A confession: what I know about Southeast Asia you could write on the head of a pin and still have enough room remaining to house an assortment of angels

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Summary

BOOKS REVIEWED

Corporate Power and Ownership 336 in Contemporary Capitalism: The Politics of Resistance and Domination. Fair Trade and Social Justice: Global Ethnographies. The Gramscian Moment: Philosophy, 341 Hegemony and Marxism. When the State 346 Trembled: How A.J. Andrews and the Citizens’ Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike. Seeing Reds: The Red Scare of 1918-19, 346 Canada’s First War on Terror. City of Love and Revolution: Vancouver in the Sixties. Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montréal.

Reviewed by Judy Haiven
Nipissing University
McMaster University
York University
Reviewed by Adam Hilton
Reviewed by Peter Campbell
When the State Trembled reconstructs the history of the Citizens’
Athabasca University
Findings
Reviewed by Douglas Nesbitt
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