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Founded on 20 years of experience in women's shelters and sexual assault centers, this striking overview addresses the oppressive hierarchies and abuses of authority witnessed in these settings. From the separation between clients and management to an executive director misusing power, this study shows how the most egalitarian, community-based, healthy, and peaceful group of women can be destroyed by an agency managed according to male, corporate principles. Searching for answers to these issues, this shocking survey is a heartbreaking reminder of the burden many women still carry, even within the walls of established sanctuaries.

Tells the story of how a group of largely provincial civil servants and politicians came together in the face of neoliberal hegemony to advance the national child Benefit, national children's, Agenda and Social Union Framework Agreement. This study shows how Canadian federalism was made to work and where it failed to work.

Shows how BC's successful public energy system is being supplanted by a deregulated private electrical system. This book says that the government has gone to extraordinary lengths to provide a supportive financial, environmental, legal and ownership framework to assist the growth of private energy investments in BC.

Explores the origins of twin crises (in the context of peak oil and climate change) and evaluates the various solutions being advanced. This book is useful to those seeking an introduction to the issues, as well as those looking for a greater depth of analysis.

The criminalization and penalization of poverty through increased surveillance and control of welfare recipients has led many poverty advocates to claim that "a war against the poor" is in progress. This book argues that people of colour are most often the casualties in the governments' desire to roll back the welfare state.

While death is an inevitable happening in our lives, the perspectives that we hold about death and dying are socially constructed. This text takes us through the issues, both social and personal, which surround death and dying in our country. It challenges us to examine our own thoughts, feelings and fears - of the death and dying phenomena.

Based on presentations made to a symposium on the Canadian Wheat Board organized by the National Farmers union held in Regina, Saskatchewan, February 24 and 25, 2006, this book helps farmers and non-farmers better understand the essential role of the CWB in the lives of western wheat producers and their communities, and the Canadian economy.

How do we make sense of poverty, globalization, violence between men and women, youth politics, barriers to Aboriginal economic development, privatization of universities, and the like? This work shows that, collectively and individually, Canadians resist these inequalities in order to resolve our social troubles and create a more just society.

When social workers arrived on the scene after the Halifax explosion it marked the beginning of the transition from a charity model of social welfare to a profession of trained and paid social workers. This work reflects on the lessons the profession of social work took from its work in rebuilding the lives of Haligonians.

The Internet poses diverse challenges to researchers. This book discusses these challenges in all their complexity. It covers issues of copyright, privacy and ethical use of Internet materials. It also analyzes contradictions between the federal Tri- Council Policy Statement and university-based research ethics boards.

Challenging traditional notions of development, the essays in this book examine community economic development strategies in a variety of contexts, for example, as a means of improving lives in northern, rural and inner-city settings.

Law's power to criminalize is formidable. Traditional legal doctrine argues that law dispenses justice in an impartial and unbiased fashion. Critical legal theorists claim that law reproduces gender, race and class inequalities. This text offers an analysis that acknowledges the tensions between these two views of law.