Triumph and Solidarity
BC Communists in the Early Years of the Great Depression
Political Activist Ethnography
Studies in the Social Relations of Struggle
A Sales Tax for Alberta
Why and How
In this collection, Alberta scholars and policy experts map out why and how a provincial sales tax should and can be implemented as the days of buoyant capital investment, jobs, and wealth are passing Alberta by.
Small Cities, Big Issues
Reconceiving Community in a Neoliberal Era
If local governments accept a social agenda as part of their responsibilities, the contributors to Small Cities, Big Issues believe that small cities can succeed in reconceiving community based on the ideals of acceptance, accommodation, and inclusion.
Under Siege
The Independent Labour Party in Interwar Britain
Health and Safety in Canadian Workplaces
How Canadians Communicate VI
Food Promotion, Consumption, and Controversy
The Digital Nexus
Identity, Agency, and Political Engagement
The totalizing scope of the combined effects of computerization and the worldwide network are the subject of the essays in The Digital Nexus, a volume that responds to McLuhan’s request for a “special study” of the tsunami-like transformation of the communication landscape.
Speaking Power to Truth
Digital Discourse and the Public Intellectual
Scaling Up
The Convergence of the Social Economy and Sustainability
Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Canada
This is a much needed critical assessment of the political peculiarities of Alberta and the impact the government’s relationship to the oil industry has on the lives of the province’s most vulnerable citizens.