University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Allegories of Contamination
Pier Paolo Pasolini's Trilogy of Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1996
The Trilogia della vita (Trilogy of Life) is a series of three films that Pier Paolo Pasolini completed before his horrifying assassination in 1975, and it remains among the most controversial of his cinematic works. In Allegories of Contamination Patrick Rumble provides an incisive critical and...
by Terry Maley
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2011
Max Weber is best known as one of the founders of modern sociology and the author of the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, but he also made important contributions to modern political and democratic theory. In Democracy and the Political in Max Weber's Thought, Terry Maley explores, through...
by Michael J. Prince, James J. Rice
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2000
No one is content with the state of health and social programs in Canada today. The Right thinks that there is too much government involvement, and the Left thinks there is not enough. In Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy James Rice and Michael Prince track the history of the welfare state...
Producing and Negotiating Non-Citizenship
Precarious Legal Status in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Most examinations of non-citizens in Canada focus on immigrants, people who are citizens-in-waiting, or specific categories of temporary, vulnerable workers. In contrast, Producing and Negotiating Non-Citizenship considers a range of people whose pathway to citizenship is uncertain or non-existent....
Human Welfare, Rights, and Social Activism
Rethinking the Legacy of J.S. Woodsworth
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2010
J.S. Woodsworth, a founding member and leader of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (forerunner of the New Democratic Party) and member of Parliament, was a social policy pioneer who promoted human welfare and rights over interests of property or finance. The essays in Human Welfare, Rights,...
Industrial Sunset
The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Plant shutdowns in Canada and the United States from 1969 to 1984 led to an ongoing and ravaging industrial decline of the Great Lakes Region. Industrial Sunset offers a comparative regional analysis of the economic and cultural devastation caused by the shutdowns, and provides an insightful examination...
The City Below The Hill
The Slums of Montreal, 1897
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
The city below the hill is a detailed investigation of social conditions in a working class quarter of Montreal during the 1890s. Based on a house-to-house survey of the neighbourhood, this study catalogues and analyses the life of working people after the first years of rapid industrialization.
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by H.C. Eastman, Bruce Wilkinson, H. Edward English
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
The Private Planning Association of Canada initiated the Atlantic Economic Studies Program to study the implications for Canada of trade liberalization and closer economic integration among the nations bordering the North Atlantic. Over twenty studies by leading economists, which point out the significance...
by Werner Antweiler
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
As businesses face an increasing array of environmental challenges, including climate change, air and water pollution, and solid waste management, environmental management has become an increasingly important area of expertise. Elements of Environmental Management is an interdisciplinary textbook...
Tariff and Science Policies
Applications of a Model of Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
This controversial analysis of economic nationalism will interest economists and those concerned with nationalism and the competitive position of Canadian manufacturing. It is the first attempt to test empirically an economic model of nationalism, a model which implies than an emphasis on nationalism...
Aboriginal Health in Canada
Historical, Cultural, and Epidemiological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2006
Numerous studies, inquiries, and statistics accumulated over the years have demonstrated the poor health status of Aboriginal peoples relative to the Canadian population in general. Aboriginal Health in Canada is about the complex web of physiological, psychological, spiritual, historical, sociological,...
In Defence of Science
Science, Technology, and Politics in Modern Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1989
Science holds a central role in the modern world, yet its complex interrelationships with nature, technology, and politics are often misunderstood or seen from a false perspective. In a series of essays that make extensive use of original work by sociologists, historians, and philosophers of science,...
Imperial Republics
Revolution, War and Territorial Expansion from the English Civil War to the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2011
Republicanism and imperialism are typically understood to be located at opposite ends of the political spectrum. In Imperial Republics, Edward G. Andrew challenges the supposed incompatibility of these theories with regard to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century revolutions in England, the United States,...
Counting for Nothing
What Men Value and What Women are Worth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1999
Safe drinking water counts for nothing. A pollution-free environment counts for nothing. Even some people - namely women - count for nothing. This is the case, at least, according to the United Nations System of National Accounts. Author Marilyn Waring, former New Zealand M.P., now professor, development...