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Note: Follow links where available to get more information about a book Basic Income: Economic Security for All Canadians Sally Lerner, Charles Clark, and Robert Needham $16.95 CDN $10.95 US paper 1-896357-31-8 1999 Basic economic security is an idea whose time has come. In this wide-ranging book, the authors make a compelling case for the introduction of a "universal citizen's income." Canadian workers face continuing turbulence and fundamental shifts in the workplace. Globalization and technological change are pressing in on all of us. The authors trace in detail both the pros and cons of a basic income policy--how it might be funded and delivered, how it might increase jobs or change lifestyles and the work ethic. Extensive examples from Europe and the United States help to clarify the Canadian situation. The Big Nickel: Inco at Home and Abroad Jamie Swift $19.95 CDN cloth 0-919946-05-4 1977 Inco is the World's largest producer of nickel. This gripping account of the corporation is an essential contribution to an understanding of concentrated economic power, how it operates in Canada and the Third World, and its human consequences. Enter at Your Own Risk: Canadian Youth and the Labour Market Richard Marquardt $19.95 CDN paper 1-896357-19-9 1998 Canadian youth face uncertainty and risk as they emerge from their education to enter an economy marked by high levels of unemployment, underemployment, bad jobs, and low wages. Richard Marquardt traces patterns of coming of age in Canada since the beginning of the industrial period in the nineteenth century. Avoiding simplistic analyses that point to a single cause, such as demographics, the school system, or technological change, Enter At Your Own Risk leads to a deeper understanding of the underlying issues. It also offers constructive proposals for change. This is the first book-length study of this crucial subject. The New Wealth of Nations: Taxing Cyberspace Arthur Cordell, T. Ran Ide, Luc Soete, Karin Kamp Introduction by Mike McCracken $14.95 CDN paper 1 896357-10-5 1997 Information technology is transforming society and economy, especially the workplace. Ways of producing, distributing, and consuming are changing rapidly. Cutting-edge analysts Arthur Cordell and Ran Ide argue that economic policy instruments must change as well, if Canadians are to benefit fully.  "A valuable primer in how to survive in the age of global commerce." -- Peter C. Newman, Maclean's The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade, New Edition David Ransom $16.00 CDN (this edition available in Canada only) paper 1-897071-15-9 2006 The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization, New Edition Wayne Ellwood $16.00 CDN (this edition available in Canada only) paper 1-897071-13-2 2006 The No-Nonsense Guide to Science Jerome Ravetz $16.00 CDN (this edition available in Canada only) paper 1-896357-98-9 2005 The No-Nonsense Guide to World Poverty Jeremy Seabrook $16.00 CDN (this edition available in Canada only) paper 1-896357-82-2 2003 No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart: The Surprising Deceptions of Individual Choice Tom Slee $24.95 CDN paper 1-897071-06-X 2006 Progress Without People: New Technology, Unemployment, and the Message of Resistance David F. Noble $19.95 CDN paper 1-896357-00-8 1995 "Progress Without People is a lucid and masterful portrayal of what is happening in the real world of state-corporate power, and what it means for the people of the world." -- Noam Chomsky Sharing the Work, Sparing the Planet Anders Hayden $24.95 CDN (this edition available in Canada only) In the U.K. and U.S., Zed Books. In Australia, Pluto Australia. paper 1-896357-28-8 1999 Anders Hayden explores how the reduction of work time can play an integral role in an alternative ecological vision. Reduced work time will help sustain the environment, and ensure increased employment, social justice, and a high quality of life. Hayden's ideas challenge the current economic system driven by consumerism. Shifting Time: Social Policy and the Future of Work Armine Yalnizyan, T. Ran Ide, & Arthur J. Cordell $14.95 CDN paper 0-921284-91-8 1994 Shifting Time is an incisive, fact-filled examination of social policy in Canada and the impact of new technology on the changing job market. It challenges the technological imperative and the accompanying religion of economic growth at whatever cost, including unsustainable insults to the environment.

User Error: Resisting Computer Culture Ellen Rose $24.95 CDN $19.95 US paper 1-896357-79-2 2003

Wealth by Stealth: Corporate Law, Corporate Crime, and the Perversion of Democracy Harry Glasbeek $29.95 CDN $24.95 US paper 1-896357-41-5 2002 Wheel of Fortune: Work and Life in the Age of Falling Expectations Jamie Swift $19.95 CDN paper 0-921284-89-6 1995 Jamie Swift combines sharp-eyed journalism that brings out the nuances of daily life with a penetrating analysis of jobless recovery. He describes the emerging world of work through the eyes and experiences of people in Kingston and Windsor--two Ontario cities with roots in the pre-industrial past, places poised for the post-industrial information age.  "The best account we have of the raw, stark reality of working and non-working life in Canada's industrial heartland... Immensely revealing and rewarding." -- Canadian Book Review Annual Whose Brave New World?: The Information Highway and the New Economy Heather Menzies $24.95 CDN paper 1-896357-02-4 1996 In this passionate and down-to-earth book, Heather Menzies--one of Canada's leading writers on technology and society--steers us through the jargon of the Information Highway, globalization and the Internet to grasp the moral and political issues at stake in the Brave New World of the new economy. Menzies offers positive suggestions for reviving public debate, and for a democratic renegotiation of the new economy and the Information Highway.  "Whose Brave New World? is a wake-up call to those who Menzies believes may have unquestioningly--or unwittingly-- succumbed to computer determinism...Her review of current thinking on the subject is comprehensive." --The Toronto Star

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