- Abahlali baseMjondolo
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A shack-dwellers' movement in South Africa.
- Abandon Affluence
Resource Type: Book
This work reviews the most recent evidence on major global problems, examining resource and energy scarcity, environmental destruction, Third World underdevelopment, international conflict, and the deteriorating quality of life. The author argues these problems are ultimately generated by the West's commitment to affluence and growth inherent in its economic system. Only fundamental social change, not technical solutions, can provide the solution.
- All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
The Experience of Modernity
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and clutures in the modern world, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.
- Alternatives to Poverty and Welfare in Alberta
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
A basic accounting of the extent of poverty and of those on welfare in Canada and Alberta.
- Amazing Brexit: Identity and Class Politics
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
This shell of a once fighting left embraces the culture of identity but excludes the entity of class. As a result poverty has become the P-word, and the poor the pariahs of neoliberal dystopic utopia. When we talk about class in a Marxist, materialist, scientific sense, we are talking about a relation of power, specifically about who does and who doesn’t have power to shape society. Identity politics makes this conflict of interests in society invisible. Neoliberal economics, however, is class war. It has advanced in part because identity politics depoliticized the public.
- America's hidden homeless: Life in the Starlight Motel
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
A motel in Massachusetts reveals the extent of the US' hidden homelessness problem. Residents share their stories.
- America's trailer parks: the residents may be poor but the owners are getting rich
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
It's an unusual but potentially lucrative investment: Warren Buffett is prompting people to attend Mobile Home University, a 'boot camp' in trailer park ownership.
- The Anglican Church of Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Approaches to Poverty in the Toronto School Board, 1970 - 1990
No Shallow Roots
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Published in Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice. December, 2009
- Approaches to Skid Row: Rosewater? Rehabilitation? Radical Renewal?
Notes on the Conference of December 3, 4, 5, 1974
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
Report of the first National Conference of the Skid Row National Coalition.
- Bangladesh: Of Disasters and a Disastrous Development
Resource Type: Article
Dispossession, disparities in land distribution, and inappropriate development strategies in Bangladesh.
- Behind the Numbers
A blog from the CCPA
Resource Type: Website
Commentary on issues that affect Canadians, including the economy, poverty, inequality, climate change, budgets, taxes, public services, and employment.
- The Blackest Streets
The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
- Bowling Alone
The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Bowling Alone documents the rise and fall of community activity in the twentieth century in the United States and the social changes this reflects. It offers all the evidence, the confirmatory and the contradictory, to give a complete look at trends of community involvement and how increased social capital can benefit everybody.
- Boxcar Bertha: An Autobiography
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
Memoirs of a woman who lived as a hobo and anarchist.
- Bringing the Economy Home from the Market
Resource Type: Book
- Canada's Great Divide
The politics of the growing gap between rich and poor in the 1990s
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Over the course of the 1990s, Canada's growing gap has become a slippery slope for a growing number of middle income familes sliding towards the bottom of the income ladder.
- The Canadian Fact Book on Poverty 1989
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
- Canadian Federation of University Women
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Feed The Children
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Pilot Copy, February 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
The first issue of the Canadian Information Sharing Service publication. The name of the publication was later changed to Connexions and then to Connexions Digest.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 2 - July 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 4 - November 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 6 - March 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 3 - September 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 5 - December 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 3 - June 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- 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.
- The Case for Socialism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2010
An argument for socialism: a society built from the bottom up through the struggles of ordinary people against exploitation, oppression, and injustice -- one in which people come before profit. A society based on the principles of equality, democracy, and freedom.
- Challenging Rural Poverty
Experiences in Institution-Building and Popular Participation for Rural Development in Eastern Africa
Resource Type: Book
Challenging Rural Poverty includes papers on a range of topics reflecting the alternative development experiences of Eastern African countries. It is an attempt to unveil the causes of the "development crisis" in Africa.
- Changing Course
A study guide for Canadian social analysis
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
A study guide for individuals and groups who are trying to make sense of our society, and want to learn how to improve it.
- CHF
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Website
The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- Christians, Church and People Called the Poor...
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
- CIBC and CAW honoured for supporting vulnerable children
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Canadian Feed The Children recognizes CIBC and CAW union members on June 6, 2010 at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto from 6:30 to 9 pm for their support of vulnerable children.
- Citizens for Public Justice
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The City in History
Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1961
Beginning with an interpretation of the origin and nature of the city, Mumford follows the city's development from Egypt and Mesopotamia through Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages to the modern world.
- City slides into skid row
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1977
Perhaps some city planners and alderpersons are finally starting to take a serious look at Toronto’s skid row areas and the people struggling to survive in them. And just perhaps, they’ll come up with some solid and humane proposals which will get translated into action.
- Civil Rights, Poverty and Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Oppenheimer examines poverty in the United Stated during the 20th century and analyses the power structures that have prevented improvements to the basic living standards in American society.
- Class Struggle at the Waistline
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The obesity rate has soared not because lower income earners lack the knowledge to eat wisely, but because they have lost power over the economic conditions of their lives.
- The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I
Economic Writings 1
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg's most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labour, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.
- Complicating "White Privilege"
Class, Race and Images of Wilma
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The most heavy-handedly enforced rule, and the one we, in the white privilege brigade, still seem determined to protect with the greatest earnestness, dictates that Nobody shall, during a conversation about white privilege, mention any identity that is not a racial identity or any oppression that is not racism. To my knowledge, there is no official rulebook governing conversations about white privilege. If such a rulebook did exist, though, I am sure that this rule would be printed in bold italics.
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 1 - February 1979 - National Security/Securite Nationale
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 2 - March 1979 - Native Rights/Les Droits des Autochtones
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 1 - January 1980 - Literacy/Alphabetisation
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 2 - April 1981 - Urban Core/Milieu Urbain
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 4 - December 1982 - Housing
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1983
- Connexions
Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1984
- Connexions
Volume 9, Number 3 - Fall 1984 - Housing - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1984
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1987
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Connexions Annual 1989
A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
The Connexions Annual is simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives.
- Connexions Annual 1994
A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1994
Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
- Connexions Annual Overview: Economy, Poverty, Work
Resource Type: Article
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 Annual Resource and Reading List
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1994
A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Connexions Library: Economy, Poverty, Work Focus
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the economy and economics.
- The Corporations and the State
Essays in the Theory of Capitalism and Imperialism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
Essays discussing modern U.S. capitalism and imperialism. Each chapter tries to delineate the relationship between 'economic' and 'political' processes, or at least recognize the unity between them. The unifying them is the role of the large corporations in U.S. society and the world eonomy, and the relationship between these corporations and the capitalist state.
- The Creation of World Poverty
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
Hayter challenges the assumption that the West is 'helping' the rest of the world to develop. Far from rescuing the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America from their supposed backwardness, the rich countries have accumulated vast wealth at their expense.
- Crime and Criminals
Address to the Prisoners in the Chicago Jail
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1902
So long as big criminals can get the coal fields, so long as the big criminals have control of the city council and get the public streets for street cars and gas rights, this is bound to send thousands of poor people to jail. So long as men are allowed to monopolize all the earth, and compel others to live on such terms as these men see fit to make, then you are bound to get into jail.
- The Crisis of Color and Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
Essays attacking racist sterotypes and cynical arguments which America's national leaders use to obscure both the roots of today's social problems and their solutions.
- CUSO-VSO
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Daily Bread Food Bank
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
The searing account of Chris Hedges' and Joe Sacco's travels to sacrifice zones, those areas in the United States where human beings and the natural world are used and then discarded to maximize profit, places that have been offered up for maximum exploitation in the name of profit and progress.
- Debt Bondage Or Self-Reliance
A Popular Perspective on the Global Debt Crisis
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
Describes the effects of international debt on workers, the unemployed, and peasants who neither asked for or benefit from such debt. It describes the growing number of people's movements in Canada and developing nations who are struggling against austerity measures.
- Decline of the English Murder
And Other Essays
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
A collection of essays by George Orwell.
- Democracy for the Few
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
How does the U.S. political system work and for what purpose? What are the major forces shaping political life and how do they operate? Who governs in the United States? Who gets what, when, how, and why? Who pays and in what ways. These are the central questions investigated in this book.
- Dossier Homme Seul Itinerant
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1974
Theoretical base for organising and educative effort with single itinerant men in Montreal.
- Down and Out in Paris and London
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
Life near the bottom in France and England in the early 1930s.
- The Earthscan Action Handbook
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
- The Economics of Injustice
Poverty
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
Various aspects of poverty in Canada, the guaranteed income plan & social justice.
- Emmanuel International Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
Emmanuel International Canada is one of seven affiliates of Emmanuel Relief and Rehabilitation International. EICanada's programs aim to build the self-reliance and dignity of those involved in developing world.
Emmanuel International Canada is currently operating in Brazil, Haiti, Malawi, the Philippines, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda.
- The End of Poverty?
Resource Type: Film
Published: 2008
Today, global poverty has reached new levels because of unfair debt, trade and tax policies -- in other words, wealthy countries exploiting the weaknesses of poor, developing countries.
- The Enduring Myth Of Microfinance
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
When microfinance-provision of financial services tailored to fit the needs of low income people – made its first appearance, everyone was infatuated by its narrative.
- Eradicating Extreme Poverty
Democracy, Globalisation and Human Rights
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
A new approach to eradicating extreme poverty, contrasted with conventional "top-down" approaches.
- Everybody Loves a Good Drought
Stories from India's Poorest Districts
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
P. Sainath devoted 2½ years to visiting and recording the realities - delving into the fundamentals, the why of the realities - in India's 10 poorest districts.
- Evicted and Abandoned: The World Bank's Broken Promise to the Poor
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The World Bank pledges to "do no harm." But over the past decade it has regularly failed to protect the world's most vulnerable people.
- Evil Traffickers and Innocent Children?
It's Not So Simple
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
One of the most pressing reasons why teenagers like Adri need to migrate for work is because there’s no other way for them or their families to access the money that is essential to life in any capitalist economy.
- 'Factivism' and Other Fairytales from Bono
The 'Inner Nerd' Gets It Wrong, Again
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
A rebuttal to U2 singer Bono's claims regarding the 'imminent eradication of extreme poverty'.
- Falling Behind
The State of Working Canada, 2000
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
An accessible collation of data and analysis, analyzed from a progressive perspective, about the social and economic realities of working people in Canada.
- False Promises
The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- Family Service Toronto
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Fear of Falling
The Inner Life of the Middle Class
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
Examines the insecurities of the middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the past two decades. Fear of Falling traces the myths about the middle class to their roots in the ambition and anxieties that torment it and that have led to its retreat from a responsible leadership role.
- Federated Anti-Poverty Groups of British Columbia
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1979
The above Federation is made up of citizens' groups and individuals working together for change in the low-income people in British Columbia.
- Finding North
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
A documentary that investigates incidents of hunger experienced by millions of Americans, and proposed solutions to the problem.
- Food Banks and the Welfare Crisis
Resource Type: Book
- Food Banks Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Gandhi's Truth
On the origins of militant nonviolence
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
An examination of the life, vision, and actions of Mohandas Gandhi.
- Get a Life!
How to make a good buck dance around the dinosaurs and save the world while you're at it
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
Simultaneoulsy a textbook on new careers and lifestyles for aspiring entrepreneurs and a strategy for social, economic and environmental renewal.
- Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
Third Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
See also CX2933.
- The Global Gang Thang
A World of Change: Armed Young Men and Gansta Culture (Globalization and Community)
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
- Global Thoughts, Local Actions
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
A wealth of information for those seeking ways to link global problems to everyday life.
- The Great Transformation
The political and economic origins of our time
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
Polanyi analyzes the social and political upheavals that took place in England during the rise of the market economy. Polanyi contends that the modern market economy and the modern nation-state should be understood not as discrete elements, but as a single human invention he calls the "Market Society".
- The Growth Illusion
How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Douthwaite argues that strategies used by governments to raise national income often increase poverty and unemployment. Moreover, in the USA, Britiain, Germany and Australia, each increase in national income consumes more resources than it creates on a sustainable basis. In other words, these economies are running backwards and making their citizens worse off.
- Hair care line nourishes children affected by poverty
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Beginning April 2009, Laboratoire Cosmepro will donate two percent of sales from its Light Blue Shade hair care products to Canadian Feed The Childrenâ##s National Nutrition Program, which provides nutritional support to children living in poverty.
- Harvesting the Blood of America's Poor: The Latest Stage of Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
In today’s wretched economy, where around 130 million Americans admit an inability to pay for basic needs like food, housing or healthcare, buying and selling blood is of the few booming industries America has left.
- The History of Costa Rica
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
- Hogtown
Working Class Toronto at the Turn of the Century
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
- How not to grow a new town
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
For years the governments of Peru, and the municipality of Lima, had a working deal with rural migrants who flocked to the city: we'll plan the place, you build it, amenities will arrive. Then came the cheap neoliberal substitute of granting land titles -- and the speculation began.
- How People Get Power
Organizing Oppressed Communities for Action
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
A book about community organizing, written for organizers.
- How the World Bank Broke Its Promise to Protect the Poor
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The World Bank has broken its promise. Over the past decade, the bank has regularly failed to enforce its rules, with devastating consequences for some of the poorest and most vulnerable people on the planet, an investigation has found.
- The I.F. Stone's Weekly Reader
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
An anthology of 20 years of journalism by independent journalists I.F. Stone.
- Income and Health
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- India: Growing Inequality and Destructive Development
Misery for the Many, Benefits for the Few
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Under the careful guidance of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund the Indian government has for the last twenty years or so, embraced market liberalization and the global market; garlanded corporations with all manner of subsidies and damned the poor to greater poverty, destitution, suffering and, suicide in the case of farmers.
- International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Jeremy Hon of Richmond Green Secondary School Lives in Poverty for a Week
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
"Poverty should not be an issue that limits people. It shouldn't hold them back." Jeremy Hon of Richmond Hill works to make a difference for those living in poverty in Malawi.
- Jobs and Poverty
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1977
The National Council of Welfare was established by the Government Organization Act, 1969 as a citizens advisory body to the Minister on matters pertaining to welfare.
- Just Like You and Me
Images of the downtown eastside, Vancouver
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
Photographic and poetic images of the people of the "skid row" area of Vancouver.
- Just Society Movement
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
The Just Society Movement was founded in 1968 by two single mothers, who were fed up with a welfare system that did not serve their needs. Cleverly named to hold Trudeau's Liberals accountable to their self-proclaimed commitment to a "Just Society," the JSM movement relied on grassroots organizing and information campaigns to contest unjust laws and educate welfare recipients about their rights.
- Land Conflict and Injustice
Development in 'New India'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
On agrarian crisis and the commercialization of the countryside in India.
- Living Wage Campaigns, Part 2: Challenges Facing the Movement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1998
IN THE PREVIOUS article (see ATC 76), I discussed the basic concepts, advocates and goals behind living wage campaigns, as well as some of the movement's successes. These include a positive ideological effect on legislators and other organizations' agendas; the creation of strong and lasting coalitions; the development of new worker organizations; and the growth of existing worker organizations.
- Local Places In the Age of the Global City
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
The contributors to Local Places look at the complex social, economic and political contexts of cities in the 1990s and suggest that cities and urbanity, while part of the problem, also need to be considered as part of the solution.
- A Look at Skid Row 1976 - Where is it Going?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1976
A final report to the Non-Medical Use of Drugs Directorate on trends in Skid-Row movement.
- Loyalist College of Applied Arts and Technology
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Malcolm X Speaks
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
A series of speeches, seminars and press conferences given by Malcolm X during the last years of his life in 1964 and early 1965.
- Mama Illegal
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
They gave the smugglers all their money and risk their life on their journey across borders: Three women from a small town in Moldavia, living now in Austria and Italy as cleaning women. On top of their hard job they live a life in illegality without documents, far away from their children and family for years.
- Man's Worldly Goods
The Story of the Wealth of Nations
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
Huberman sets out to explain history using economic theory, and to explain economic theory using history. He tries to explain, in terms of the development of economic thought, why certain doctrines arose when they did, how they originated in the very fabric of social life, and how they were developed, modified, and overthrown when the pattern of that fabric was changed.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 16
Marx and Engels 1858 - 1860
Resource Type: Book
Mainly events in Europe.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 17
Marx and Engels 1859 - 1860
Resource Type: Book
Includes Herr Vogt and articles on military matters.
- A Marxist History of the World part 79: Revolt in the Colonies
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The anti-colonial revolts of the early 20th century were inspired by radical ideas, but, as the examples of Ireland, India and Mexico show, history exacts a heavy price for political timidity.
- Mastering the Machine
Poverty, Aid and Technology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- Millions in poverty get less coverage than 482 billionaires
New FAIR study documents TV news' lack of interest in poor
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
FAIR uses data from CBS, ABC, and NBC to conduct a study on how much the media reports on poverty, concluding that there is not very much coverage of people in poverty.
- A Model of Theological Reflection
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1976
Training document to organise analysis of the conditions that foster the existence of skid row.
- Modernes Grosstadtelend
Resource Type: Book
- Monopoly Capital
An essay on American economic and social order
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
An analysis of American capitalism.
- Moral Poverty and the Riots
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Because the right has appropriated the arguments about moral failure, many on the left have rejected moral arguments altogether. The left talks much about the social and economic impact of neoliberal policies. But little about their moral impact. Such willful blindness is dangerous. Morality is as important to the left as it is to the right, though for different reasons. There can be no possibility of a political or economic vision of a different society without a moral vision too. Moral arguments lie at the heart of our understanding of social solidarity, and of the distinction between notions of social solidarity and pious rightwing claims of ‘we’re all in it together’.
- National Anti-Poverty Organization
Dcouments produced by NAPO in 1977-1978.
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
Abstracts of three documents produced by the National-Anti-Poverty Organization (NAPO) in 1977-1978.
- National Anti-Racism Council of Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- National Skid Row Coalition Conference, Vancouver May 12-15, 1975
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
Description of conference with reflections on implications for Calgary.
- New Internationalist
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
New Internationalist reports on issues of world poverty and inequality. We focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless worldwide in the fight for global justice.
- The Next Liberation Struggle
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy in Southern Africa
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
An indispensable guide to understanding how the resources of that era can be used to contribute to real liberation for the region and for the continent of Africa as a whole.
- 1988 Poverty Lines:
Estimates By The National Council Of Welfare
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1988
- 1987 Poverty Lines
Estimates By The National Council of Welfare
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1987
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Class, Caste & Hierarchies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
Concentrates mainly on the history of social hierarchy in Western civilization, and particularly the struggles of the working class.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
Ransom suggests that fair, environmentally-conscious trade is not only a viable alternative to unfair free trade, but that it is the way of the future.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to World Poverty
Resource Type: Book
- Not by Bread Alone
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War focused on people's daily needs--who doesn't love hot, buttered toast? People in Spain were starving--they needed food. People--were homeless and needed homes; people were jobless and needed something to do; people were rejected from their communities needed to be included. Anarchists focused on these practical, attainable and above all human needs. And, these are the basic rights that should undergird all human social organizations.
- The Not-So-Secret History of Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
This is a coda to my review of Paul Collier’s book Exodus. I questioned the moral and social arguments that Collier employs to justify his arguments, and suggested that there is often a chasm between that evidence and Collier’s more contentious arguments, while many of his policy prescriptions are morally questionable.
- On the Edge
A Journey into the Heart of Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- Open Veins of Latin America
Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
A political economy, a social and cultural narrative, and a powerful description of primitive capital accumulation.
- Our Generation
Volume 5 Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1967
- Our Generation
Volume 17 Number 1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1985
- Pensions Under Attack
What's behind the push to privatize public pensions
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
Townson discusses the forces behind the drive to privatize public pensions and its impact on the financial security of seniors. In doing so, she traces a history from Pinochet's Chile to Thatcher's Great Britain to critique Canada's move toward privatization.
- A People's History of the United States
1492 - Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
- A People's Manifesto: Let's Roll Back Austerity and Claim Real Democracy!
Urgent common priorities for a democratic, social, ecological and feminist Europe
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Europe stands on the edge of a precipice, looking into the abyss. Austerity policies drive the peoples of Europe into poverty, undercut democracy and dismantle social policies. Rising inequalities endanger social cohesion. Ecological destruction is worsening while acute humanitarian crises devastate the most affected countries.
- Perpetuating Poverty: The Political Economy of Canadian Foreign Aid
Toronto: Between the Lines
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
- Photography and the Powerless
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1971
A critique of photographers who come to exploit "the poor."
- Playing Fair?
Resource Type: Unclassified
Published: 1990
An ingenious mix of entertainment and information, Playing Fair explains world hunger to high-school students with games and an attention-grabbing format and layout. The kit consists of five lessons, each accompanied by a board game.
- The Political Economy of Health
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1889
- The Politics of Food and Poverty
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The global food crisis is tightly connected to global poverty, climate change, ecological destruction, migrant workers, imperialism, health and the super-exploitation of workers.
- Poor fetishes, poor critiques: gentrification as violence
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Hating on hipsters is not the answer to gentrification. If we want to reclaim our cities, we should organize for genuinely affordable housing in common, argues Gloria Dawson.
- Poverty and Policy in Canada
Implications for Health and Qualityof Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
Raphael writes with authority on the problem of inequality and poverty in Canada. Income variability has increased while social assistance and minimum wages have not kept people up.
- Poverty in Canada - A Christian Perspective
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
The book is an editorial revision of the final report of the Anglican Church Task Force on the economy presented to the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada in July 1977. Its purpose was to attempt an adequate diagnosis of the causes of poverty in Canada and to provide a comprehensive review of the possibilities available to us for the elimination of poverty and social injustice in Canada.
- Poverty in Wealth
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1976
A critique of existing poverty research in Canada.
- The poverty of sociology
A review of James Lorimer's "Working People"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1971
- Poverty Profile 1988
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1988
- Poverty Report and Recommendations
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1977
This booklet, addressed to the membership of the United Church, presents the recommendations adopted by the last General council. It also includes a background for the recommendations and integrates them into the history of the United Church Task Force on Poverty.
- Poverty saps mental capacity to deal with complex tasks, say scientists
Study suggests being preoccupied with money problems is equivalent to loss of 13 IQ points or losing a night's sleep
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
People who are poor expand so much mental energy on the immediate problem of paying bills or cutting costs that they are left with less capacity to deal with other complex but important problems.
- Poverty: A Study/Action Guide
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
"Poverty" is a workbook designed for small groups interested in becoming more informed and involved in the struggle of the economically poor to dig their way out. It tries to put a common face on poverty through examples as well as present the Christian case for concern.
- Progress Against Poverty
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1987
- A Quiet Violence
View from a Bangladesh Village
Resource Type: Book
In this book, two Bengali-speaking Americans take the reader to a Bangladesh village where they lived for nine months. There the reader meets some of the world's poorest people, and some of the not-so-poor people who profit from their misery. This book describes the quiet violence of needless hunger.
- Reclaim the power! Democratic energy must replace corporate capture
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Democratising energy would save thousands of lives a year in Britain alone -- releasing us from the clutches of corporate utilities, and building an energy commons in which we are all owners and participants, no longer captive, exploited consumers. More than that, it would be a big step forward in saving the planet.
- A Report Card on Women and Poverty
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2000
- Report on the Conference; Vancouver 1975
May 12-13, 1975
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
Conference on stategies used on Skid Row, focusing on Vancouver organisations.
- Reporting the Realities of Poverty
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1997
Review of Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India's Poorest Districts, by P. Sainath.
- Reporting the realities of poverty; Truth about global warming (reviews)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1997
- Right-Wing Populism in America
Too Close for Comfort
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Examines the historical roots and current situation of right-wing populism in the US. Berlet and Lyons highlight the dangers of right-wing populism in affecting the political system and opportunities for social change.
- The Road to Wigan Pier
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1937
George Orwell's investigation of an English working class community in the 1930s.
- P. Sainath
Resource Type: Website
The website of P. Sainath, rural reporter in India.
- Second-class health care for immigrants, seniors?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
A two-tier system means better care for the affluent, and worse or no care for the rest.
- Seven News
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1970
Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but all issues of the paper have been scanned and are available on the Connexions website.
Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, St. Jamestown.
- 7 News should take own articles seriously
Letter to the Editor
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
Ulli Diemer wrote an excellent commentary on poverty. The only trouble is that he doesn't seem to take his own ideas seriously.
- The Seventh Fire
The Struggle for Aboriginal Government
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
Describes the struggles of aboriginal people to run their own affairs.
- Simon Fraser University
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- SNCC
The New Abolitionists
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
An account of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
- Socialist Register 2012
Volume 48: The Crisis and the Left
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2012
- Society of Citizens of the World
Resource Type: Book
- Some Lives
A GP's East End
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
The author, a Marxist and a doctor, writes about the patients he treated in Canary Wharf - a community in East London plagued by poverty and crime.
- The State of the World Atlas
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
- Submission to the Poverty Task Force of the United Church of Canada
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
A discussion of what direction the efforts of the United Church should take in the fight against poverty in Canada.
- Submission to the Poverty Task Force of the United Church of Canada
How Social and Economc Justice Can be Improved in Canada
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
A submission to the United Church clergy on Canada's strategies for developing technology and economy.
- The Suburban Nation
The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
The choice is ours: either a society of homogeneous pieces, isolated from one another in often fortified enclaves, or a society of diverse and memorable neighbourhoods, organized into mutually supportive towns, cities and regions.
- Theological Reflection Re: Skid Row
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1976
Reflection on the conditions that foster the existence of Skid Rows in Canada.
- This Magazine is About Schools - Volume 5, Number 2
Spring 1971 issue
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1971
- Toronto Survival Guide
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- Toronto's Poor
A Rebellious History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2916
Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how the homeless, the unemployed, and the destitute have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present.
- The Truth About "Trailer Trash"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
"Trailer trash" remains one of the last unquestioned relics of political incorrectness in our nation. As a toxic slur, the "trailer trash" brand works to stigmatize an entire category of people marginalizing them from mainstream society.
- Under the Viaduct
Homeless in Beautiful B.C.
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
The author, through interviews, gives a collection of testimonials of Vancouver's homeless and strategies to combat this social problem.
- University of Winnipeg
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Urban core support network annual conference 1982:
The disappearance of affordable housing for people on the margins
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1982
The 1982 Conference of the Urban Core Support Network, held in Toronto in October, focused on the disappearance of affordable housing.
- The War at Home
An Intimate Portrait of Canada's Poor
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
- Weatherman
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
A history of the Weatherman organization.
- Welfare Office
Resource Type: Article
Trying to get welfare.
- What A.G.A.I.N.?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
Adequate Guaranteed Annual Income and Skid Row.
- What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know about Capitalism
A Citizen's Guide to Capitalism and the Environment
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
A manifesto for those environmentalists who reject schemes of “green capitalism” or piecemeal reform. Magdoff and Foster argue that efforts to reform capitalism along environmental lines or rely solely on new technology to avert catastrophe misses the point. The main cause of the looming environmental disaster is the driving logic of the system itself, and those in power — no matter how “green” — are incapable of making the changes that are necessary.
- What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Rural Poverty
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Gurly analyzes the institutional reasons behind widespread poverty, depopulation, and unemployment in Jefferson County, Mississippi.
- Where Heaven Meets Hell
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2011
Drawing strength from their families and their Muslim faith, Indonesian sulfur miners face gruelling labour and treacherous conditions on an active volcano, while struggling to overcome the desperate poverty and illiteracy that plague their community.
- Who do we try to rescue today?
Canada under corporate rule
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
A collection of essays discussing aspects of the role of corporations in late-20th-century Canada.
- Who Killed Grace Bates...?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1976
Grace Bates, a long-time resident of Cabbagetown, was 63 years of age when she died in the early morning of July 19 [1976] at Nellie’s Hostel on Broadview. She had been taken to Nellie’s Hostel the previous night by a Hostel volunteer after an anonymous phone call stated that she had spent the three previous days and nights alone in wheel chair in Allan Gardens. As a result of the media publicity on her death, an inquest was held.
- Why the Left Isn't Talking About Rural American Poverty
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Within the popular American conscience there are two favoured focal points for discussing the problem of poverty. The first is within the urban, inner city context and the second is the poverty of the Global South: Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and the rest of the developing world. What seldom gets talked about -- and when it is, often with irreverent humor and contempt -- is the poverty of rural America, particularly rural white America: Appalachia, the Ozarks, the Mississippi Delta, the Dakotas, the Rio Grande Valley, the Cotton Belt. So why is the poverty of rural America largely unexamined, even avoided?
- Winter of Discontent
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1991
Whole communities are being plunged into a poverty culture that is very difficult to escape.
- Women and Poverty: A Report by the National Council of Welfare
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1979
- Women, Resistance and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
A wide-ranging survey of the roots of inequality and of the long but sporadic struggles to covercome it. Her narrative extends from the seventeenth century to present-day (1970s) Vietnam, showing how certain women have struggled, in both revolutionary and repressive situations, to achieve liberation.
- Working People
Life in a Downtown City Neighbourhood
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
A description of the Don Vale neighbourhood of downtown Toronto in the 1960s.
- You Can't Win
The Autobiography of Jack Black
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
Memoirs of a "desperado" who rode the rails, etc., around the turn of the century. Reviewed in the New York Review of Books, April 27, 1989.
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