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Change of Plans raises questions that are not commonly posed, suggests new avenues for thought in city planning, and contributes to the growing literature on sustainability by merging it with a feminist approach.

The book shows how spurious the distinctions are between the home as private sphere and the outside world as public, and how totally integrated housework and "household" are within political economy.

Vital Signs focuses on nursing work, but offers lessons about the state and women's work that go well beoynd the health care sector.

Dale Spender promises to change the way we think about computers.

Globalization and the rightward shift in politics in recent years have de-legitimated and largely dismantled the Keynesian welfare state that developed in the thirty year period after World War II.

This analysis begins with a discussion of theoretical issues involved in democratic, participatory, alternative, and community communications.

Making Western Canada challenges uncritical historiies of a peaceful, orderly and anglocentric Canadian West. Collectively, its authors suggest the potential of more inclusive histories based on the social relationships that knit the region's history..." Elizabeth Jameson, Department of History, University of Calgary

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The publication of Paqtatek is one way to address the void in the literature on Aboriginal Peoples.

The contributors build on recent scholarship to establish the reproductive sector as a series of interconnected private (family) and public (state) institutions, developing an analysis of the relationship between the welfare state and the imperatives of the wider economy.

The study of pornography is used here for the first time to demonstrate the role of the state in manipulating 'social problems' through moral panic.

Using an analysis grounded in political economy, this book contends that cultural inequality is a result of structural factors and discusses new ways of thinking about race, ethnicity, education and the organization of knowledge.

The indepth analysis of social policy issues and their implications for social work practice provided in this book will be a vital tool both for those involved in social work practice and those studying and implementing social policies.

The contributors to this book share their perspective on how the resistance struggle is being waged in fishing villages, farms, coal mines and industrial work places in the Atlantic region.

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This significant book explores the connections between the university and industry, and how these prevent the production and dissemination of knowledge beneficial to society as a whole.

Take Care: Warning Signals for Canada's Health System examines the modern Canadian health care system and exposes the impact of neo-conservative and market-oriented policies.

Winning Back the Words chronicles the politics of the environmental public hearings on the Alberta-Pacific bleached kraft pulp mill in northern Alberta, and illustrates how the public challenged the authority of experts.

Few Choices examines the few choices that confront women today in their efforts to balance paid work and family life.

This is the first book to examine power and control within the Canadian food economy, and to blend historical scholarship with new empirical research on the topic.