Modern Labour Activism is my collection of 35 labour renewal essays from March 2010 to June 2017.
Is Canada’s labour movement in an existential crisis? Is it properly adapting to the social, economic, political and ecological realities of the 21st century? Does it have a working grasp of Systems Theory to ensure its survival? How do we improve everyone’s understanding of intersectionality? Take a deep breath; let’s get busy. – s.e~b
The first edition was published on Labour Day, September 4, 2017 by dali he’art press.
eBook: ISBN 978-1-7750185-1-3 Click here to download it.
Modern Labour Activism by Stephen Elliott-Buckley is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Based on a work at http://wepivot.net/mla/.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Refocus to Revive
- Our Past is Our Future
- The Community Tonic
- Saving Canada’s Pension Plan
- Labour’s Place in Transition Towns
- Honey Bees and Women’s Wages
- Growing a Movement
- The 10% Shopping Shift
- The Work-Life Generation Gaps
- Seeds of the Occupy Movement
- More Than Attawapiskat
- Harper’s Threat to Democracy
- This is (Class) War
- Unions & Citizens, Together
- Imagine a New Canada
- What Trade Unions Owe Our Elders
- Inconvenient Truths for White Men
- A Radical Union Education Program
- Untangling the Temporary Foreign Worker Knot
- Say Hello to the Pavement
- Fried Squirrels
- Taking Aim at Medicare
- The Women in My Life
- Deep Solidarity
- Against Collective Forgetting
- Science-Deniers and Dinosaurs
- Unions Meet Worker Co-ops
- Being a Better Ally
- Health & Safety for the Psyche
- Why I Joined Team Mulcair
- Part-Time and Casual Workers Need Support
- Seven Tips for Feminist Men
- Jokers to the Right
- Fight This New Liquid Workforce
- Stepping Back to Create Space