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Title : The Tobacco Conspiracy : The Backroom Deals of a Deadly Industry Material Type: printed text Authors: Nadia Collot, Author Publisher: NFB Publication Date: 2005 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Audio/visual
Economics
HealthAbstract: (Doc. 52.min
The Tobacco Conspiracy goes behind the scenes of the powerful tobacco industry, which has grown rich over the last five decades at the expense of public health. A gripping investigation covering three continents, the film exposes the vast conspiracy of a criminally negligent industry that hangs on to economic power through corruption and manipulation. To confront the tobacco cartel, anti-smoking groups are organizing and scoring pints, but the fight is far from over.
-From the back cover.The Tobacco Conspiracy : The Backroom Deals of a Deadly Industry [printed text] / Nadia Collot, Author . - [S.l.] : NFB, 2005.
Languages : English (eng)
Descriptors: Audio/visual
Economics
HealthAbstract: (Doc. 52.min
The Tobacco Conspiracy goes behind the scenes of the powerful tobacco industry, which has grown rich over the last five decades at the expense of public health. A gripping investigation covering three continents, the film exposes the vast conspiracy of a criminally negligent industry that hangs on to economic power through corruption and manipulation. To confront the tobacco cartel, anti-smoking groups are organizing and scoring pints, but the fight is far from over.
-From the back cover.Copies
Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status 120 COL DVD 120 COL DVD Cassette vid QPIRG-McGill Economics (QM) Available
Title : Things Fall Away : Philippine Historical Experiences and the Makings of Globalization Material Type: printed text Authors: Neferti X. M. Tadiar, Author Publisher: Duke University Press Publication Date: 2009 ISBN (or other code): 978-0-8223-4446-9 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Colonialism, Imperialism & World Politics
Economics
Feminisms
Feminisms of Colour/Race and Feminism
Gender and Work
Political Thought
Politics
Sex PoliticsKeywords: Philippines Philippine history globalization revolution social life political agency Abstract: "In Things Fall Away, Neferti X. M. Tadiar offers a new paradigm for understanding politics and globalization. Her analysis illuminates both the power of Filipino subaltern experience to shape social and economic realities and the critical role of the nation’s writers and poets in that process. Through close readings of poems, short stories, and novels brought into conversation with scholarship in anthropology, sociology, politics, and economics, Tadiar demonstrates how the devalued experiences of the Philippines’ vast subaltern populations—experiences that “fall away” from the attention of mainstream and progressive accounts of the global capitalist present—help to create the material conditions of social life that feminists, urban activists, and revolutionaries seek to transform. Reading these “fallout” experiences as vital yet overlooked forms of political agency, Tadiar offers a new and provocative analysis of the unrecognized productive forces at work in global trends such as the growth of migrant domestic labor, the emergence of postcolonial “civil society,” and the “democratization” of formerly authoritarian nations." (from back cover) Things Fall Away : Philippine Historical Experiences and the Makings of Globalization [printed text] / Neferti X. M. Tadiar, Author . - [S.l.] : Duke University Press, 2009.
ISBN : 978-0-8223-4446-9
Languages : English (eng)
Descriptors: Colonialism, Imperialism & World Politics
Economics
Feminisms
Feminisms of Colour/Race and Feminism
Gender and Work
Political Thought
Politics
Sex PoliticsKeywords: Philippines Philippine history globalization revolution social life political agency Abstract: "In Things Fall Away, Neferti X. M. Tadiar offers a new paradigm for understanding politics and globalization. Her analysis illuminates both the power of Filipino subaltern experience to shape social and economic realities and the critical role of the nation’s writers and poets in that process. Through close readings of poems, short stories, and novels brought into conversation with scholarship in anthropology, sociology, politics, and economics, Tadiar demonstrates how the devalued experiences of the Philippines’ vast subaltern populations—experiences that “fall away” from the attention of mainstream and progressive accounts of the global capitalist present—help to create the material conditions of social life that feminists, urban activists, and revolutionaries seek to transform. Reading these “fallout” experiences as vital yet overlooked forms of political agency, Tadiar offers a new and provocative analysis of the unrecognized productive forces at work in global trends such as the growth of migrant domestic labor, the emergence of postcolonial “civil society,” and the “democratization” of formerly authoritarian nations." (from back cover) Copies
Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status 300 TAD 2009 300 TAD 2009 Livre/Book QPIRG-McGill Colonialism, Imperialism, and World Politics (QM) Available
Title : Thinking Forward - Learning to Conceptualize Economic Vision Material Type: printed text Authors: Michael Albert, Author Publisher: Arbeiter Ring Publication Date: 1997 ISBN (or other code): 978-1-89403-700-6 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Economics Abstract:
Thinking Forward - Learning to Conceptualize Economic Vision [printed text] / Michael Albert, Author . - [S.l.] : Arbeiter Ring, 1997.
ISBN : 978-1-89403-700-6
Languages : English (eng)
Descriptors: Economics Abstract:
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Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status ECO ALB 1997 ECO ALB 1997 Livre/Book QPIRG-Concordia Economics and Globalization Available
Title : Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century Original title : An Introduction Material Type: printed text Authors: Stephan Kaufmann, Author ; Ingo Stuzle, Author ; Alexander Locascio, Translator Publisher: Verso Publication Date: 2017 ISBN (or other code): 978-1-7847-8614-4 Languages : English (eng) Original Language : German (ger) Descriptors: Economics
Labour, Poverty and ClassKeywords: capitalism Abstract: US Nobel Prize–winner Paul Krugman described Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century as “perhaps the most important book of the last decade.” It has sparked major international debates, dominated bestseller lists and generated a level of enthusiasm—as well as intense criticism—in a way no other economic or sociological work has in a long time. Piketty has been described as a new Karl Marx and placed in the same league as the economist John Maynard Keynes.
The “rock star economist’s” underlying thesis is that inequality under capitalism has reached dramatic levels in the last few decades and continues to grow—and that this is not by chance. A small elite is making itself richer and richer and acquiring everincreasing levels of power.
Given the sensational reception of Piketty’s not-so-easily digested 800-page study, the question as to where the hype around the book comes from deserves to be asked. What does it get right? And what should we make of it—both of the book itself and of the criticism it has received? This introduction lays out the argument of Piketty’s monumental work in a compact and understandable format, while also investigating the controversies Piketty has stirred up. In addition, the two authors demonstrate the limits, contradictions and errors of the so-called Piketty revolutionThomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century = An Introduction [printed text] / Stephan Kaufmann, Author ; Ingo Stuzle, Author ; Alexander Locascio, Translator . - [S.l.] : Verso, 2017.
ISBN : 978-1-7847-8614-4
Languages : English (eng) Original Language : German (ger)
Descriptors: Economics
Labour, Poverty and ClassKeywords: capitalism Abstract: US Nobel Prize–winner Paul Krugman described Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century as “perhaps the most important book of the last decade.” It has sparked major international debates, dominated bestseller lists and generated a level of enthusiasm—as well as intense criticism—in a way no other economic or sociological work has in a long time. Piketty has been described as a new Karl Marx and placed in the same league as the economist John Maynard Keynes.
The “rock star economist’s” underlying thesis is that inequality under capitalism has reached dramatic levels in the last few decades and continues to grow—and that this is not by chance. A small elite is making itself richer and richer and acquiring everincreasing levels of power.
Given the sensational reception of Piketty’s not-so-easily digested 800-page study, the question as to where the hype around the book comes from deserves to be asked. What does it get right? And what should we make of it—both of the book itself and of the criticism it has received? This introduction lays out the argument of Piketty’s monumental work in a compact and understandable format, while also investigating the controversies Piketty has stirred up. In addition, the two authors demonstrate the limits, contradictions and errors of the so-called Piketty revolutionCopies
Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status 120KAU2017 120KAU2017 Livre/Book QPIRG-McGill Economics (QM) Available
Title : Uniting Struggles : Critical Social Research in Critical Times Material Type: printed text Authors: Carlo Fanellli, Editor ; Priscillia Lefebvre, Editor Publisher: Red Quill Books Ltd Publication Date: 2011 ISBN (or other code): 978-1-926958-15-6 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Colonialism, Imperialism & World Politics
Economics
Gender and Work
Labour, Poverty and ClassKeywords: war on terror, neoliberalism, Ottawa, Gatineau, Quebec, Quebec Solidaire, socialism, capitalism, downtown eastside, vancouver, genocide Abstract: "With the reverberations of the Great Recession still wreaking havoc throughout much of the world, this issue of Alternate Routes brings together articles based on their dedication to critical social research in critical times. Articles range from an examination of post-9/11 Hollywood cinema to climate-induced migration, neoliberalism and the global economic crisis, labour struggles, left political regroupment, knowledge production in social movements and re-thinking socialism. Included, as well, are short analytical pieces, editorials and interviews with noted activists and academics, and a number of contemporary book reviews." (From back cover) Uniting Struggles : Critical Social Research in Critical Times [printed text] / Carlo Fanellli, Editor ; Priscillia Lefebvre, Editor . - [S.l.] : Red Quill Books Ltd, 2011.
ISBN : 978-1-926958-15-6
Languages : English (eng)
Descriptors: Colonialism, Imperialism & World Politics
Economics
Gender and Work
Labour, Poverty and ClassKeywords: war on terror, neoliberalism, Ottawa, Gatineau, Quebec, Quebec Solidaire, socialism, capitalism, downtown eastside, vancouver, genocide Abstract: "With the reverberations of the Great Recession still wreaking havoc throughout much of the world, this issue of Alternate Routes brings together articles based on their dedication to critical social research in critical times. Articles range from an examination of post-9/11 Hollywood cinema to climate-induced migration, neoliberalism and the global economic crisis, labour struggles, left political regroupment, knowledge production in social movements and re-thinking socialism. Included, as well, are short analytical pieces, editorials and interviews with noted activists and academics, and a number of contemporary book reviews." (From back cover) Copies
Barcode Call number Media type Location Section Status 150 FAN 2011 150 FAN 2011 Livre/Book QPIRG-McGill Political Thought (QM) Available
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