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Families, Mobility, and Work

Employment-related geographical mobility is widespread and increasing within Canada and around the world. Prolonged daily commutes, working away for extended periods, and being employed in mobile workplaces ...

White Benevolence

When working with Indigenous people, the helping professions ?education, social work, health care and justice ? reinforce the colonial lie that Indigenous people need saving. In White Benevolence, leading ...

Front-Wave Boomers

By (author) Gillian Ranson
Categories: Age groups: the elderly

Boomers are heading into (very) old age following a pandemic, a time of overt ageism and deficient eldercare. The front wave, now in their seventies, are on the brink of life changes that will challenge ...

Fight to Win

By (author) A.J. Withers
Categories: Social work

AJ Withers draws on their own experiences as an organizer, extensive interviews with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) activists and Toronto bureaucrats, and freedom of information requests ...

Reframed

For Stuart Shanker, the possibility of a truly just and free society begins with how we see and nurture our children. In his new book, Reframed, Shanker unpacks the unique science and conceptual practices ...

The Challenge of Children's Rights for Canada, 2nd edition

More than a quarter of a century has passed since Canada promised to recognize and respect the rights of children under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Ratification of the Convention ...

Changemakers

By (author) Fay Weller & Mary Wilson
Categories: Social work

The guidebook for ordinary people who want to create a new society now rather than wait for a pie-in-the-sky future.

With every news report, the world seems to be careening off the rails. It’s all ...

Understanding Violence and Abuse

By (author) Heather Fraser & Kate Seymour
Categories: Social work

Using case studies from Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Bangladesh, India, and elsewhere, Heather Fraser and Kate Seymour discuss topics ranging from class oppression, street ...

A History of Early Childhood Education in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

By (author) Larry Prochner
Categories: Education

In the early nineteenth century, governments introduced kindergartens and infant schools to give children a head start in life. These programs hinged on new visions of childhood that originated in England ...