- The Accumulation of Capital
Resource Type: Book
Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation.
- Alternative Economic Indicators
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
Anderson outlines out a new conceptual framework for economics which gives attention to enviromentalism and social indicators as well as financial ones.
- Anatomy of Big Business
Resource Type: Book
- Blueprint for a Green Economy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
- Bringing the Economy Home from the Market
Resource Type: Book
- Das Capital, Volume 1
A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1890
Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
- Das Capital, Volume 3
The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
- Collective Bargaining Course Book
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1979
- The Common Good
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
- Compass Points
Navigating the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
A radical history of the twentieth century by a wide of Canadian authors and essayists grappling with crucial developments in politics, economics, society, and culture in Canada and abroad.
- Connexions Annual 1989
A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
- Connexions Annual Overview: Economy, Poverty, Work
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1994
To effect desired change, it is necessary to have the power to set a different agenda, and therefore to challenge the current concentration of economic and political power. One of the keys to building an effective movement is mutual acts of solidarity, inspired by the principle that `an injury to one is an injury to all'.
- Connexions Library: Economy, Poverty, Work Focus
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the economy and economics.
- Debt Bondage Or Self-Reliance
A Popular Perspective on the Global Debt Crisis
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
- Democracy's Oxygen
How Corporations Control the News
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informated, news organizations manufacture public consent for policies which favour the corporate elite.
- The Economic Crisis Reader
Resource Type: Book
- The Encyclopedia of Censorship
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
This Encyclopedia concentrates primarily on the United States and the United Kingdom, but it also covers events in Western and Eastern Europe and in parts of the Third World. The Encyclopedia is an accessible and wide-ranging sourcebook on censorship topics.
- False God
How the Globalization Myth has Impoverished Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
Laxer argues that the neoconservative economic agenda is folly, and that the United States is caught in a downward spiral of limited government power and widening social divisions. He demonstrates that continued free trade with the United States will doom Canada economically, socially, and poolitically.
- The Faltering Economy
The Problem of Accumulation Under Monopoly Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
The essays in this volume are part of a radical attempt to grapple with the problems of advanced capitalist development without discarding the real theoretical breakthroughs made by Keynes.
- Farewell to the Working Class
An Essay on Post-Industrial Socialism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
- Farmageddon
Food and the Culture of Biotechnolgy
Resource Type: Book
- For the Common Good
Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
The authors argue that America's growth-oriented, industrial economy has led to environmental problems and propose an alternative economic paradigm.
- A Guide to Current Analysis of the Canadian Economy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
- Just Around the Corner
The Paradox of the Jobless Recovery
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
Aronowitz details how U.S. capitalism has achieved higher profits at the expense of the quality and quantity of jobs, and contradicts the ideological justifications that seek to justify deteriorating jobs, showing how they are neither a mark of efficiency nor a merely temporary problem.
- Madness and Ruin
Politics and Economy in the Neoconservative Age
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
Watkin's book, based on his monthly articles in This Magazine is a scathing attack on the Mulroney government's adoption of neo-conservative economics. With their adoption of Reaganite policies they have cut back on transfer payments to the provinces thus hitting secondary school funding and medicare. They have also linked Canada to the United States with the adoption of the Free Trade Agreement and launched a full scale attack on the welfare state. The NDP is not spared his criticism and is blasted for its "appalling" performance in the free- trade election. It is a poweful jounalistic book that stands up well despite the passage of years.
- Marxism, Feminism, the State
Volume 1
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
Includes essays on the sexual division of labour, and socialist organizing in the 80s, referring to Engels, Ryerson, and MacPherson.
- The Modern Crisis
Resource Type: Book
- Montreal
A Citizen's Guide to Politics
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
- More Unequal
Aspects of Class in the United States
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
Looks at class from a global vantage point integrating discussions of race, gender, and class, and the emergence of an international capitalist class.
- A New and Better Canada
Principles and Policies of a New Canadian Political Party
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- Le Nouvel Ordre Economique International
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1975
Une vue d'ensemble du "nouvel ordre economique international."
- Shooting the Hippo
Death by Deficit and Other Canadian Myths
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
An examination of how economic policy systematically favours the interests of the rich while pretending to be for the common good.
- Some Historical Perspectives on Canadian Agrarian Political Movements
The Ontario Origins of Agrarian Criticism of Canadian Industrial Society
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- Take Back the Nation
Revised Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
A passionate and thoughtful assessment of Canada in crisis. Analyses the dangers posed by NAFTA to Canada's economy and independence. Proposes economic, political and cultural solutions to Canada's problems.
- Toward a Moral Economy
Responses to Poverty in the North and South
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1996
Largely a compilation of articles from other development organizations. It deals with the impact of LDC's in North America in general and sub-Saharan Africa in particular. Statistical exerpts point out loopholes in Canadian taxation, the financial magnitude of World Bank operations, disparities among military, debt financing and social service spending. In a workbook format this book is ideal for use in a discussion group setting, whether among church groups, students or other NGO committees.
- Trading Freedom
How Free Trade Affects Our Lives, Work and Environment
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- Unreliable Sources
A Guide to Detecting Bias in the New Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
Lee and Solomon argue that American news media censor actual current events. The reason being is that there is pressure from the Government and Corporations. The public must challenge the facts of both electronic and print media.
- The Wealthy Banker's Wife
The Assault on Equality in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- Worker Co-operatives
Working Papers Vol. 2 No. 6
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
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