"Could archaeologists benefit contemporary cultures and be a factor in solving world problems? Can archaeologists help individuals? Can archaeologists change the world? These questions form the root of “archaeology activism” or “activist archaeology”: using archaeology to advocate for and affect change in contemporary communities. Archaeologists currently change the world through the products of their archaeological research that contr ..."
"Essays that explore the growing field of conflict archaeology Within the last twenty years, the archaeology of conflict has emerged as a valuable sub-discipline within anthropology, contributing greatly to our knowledge and understanding of human conflict on a global scale. Although archaeologists have clearly demonstrated their utility in the study of large-scale battles and sites of conventional warfare, such as camps and forts, conf ..."
"The latest on the rapidly growing use of innovative archaeological remote sensing for anthropological applications in North America Updating the highly praised 2006 publication Remote Sensing in Archaeology, edited by Jay K. Johnson, Archaeological Remote Sensing in North America: Innovative Techniques for Anthropological Applications is a must-have volume for today’s archaeologist. Targeted to practitioners of archaeological remote s ..."
"One of The Hill Times' Best Books of 2016The 2007-2008 financial crisis marked a turning point for social policy. World leaders were forced to take a position: Should they entrench neoliberal policies in response to the crisis? Or, implement alternative measures to challenge economics as usual? This volume explores the response to the recession by international organizations and by nation states in Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, a ..."
"Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom constitute the focus of Heather
Whiteside's chapter. Whiteside argues that, though these countries could have
opted for expansion, they chose austerity. Her central argument is that, in these
three countries, austerity is strongly seen as a “common-sense” approach – albeit
one that is non-hegemonic and highly contested and plays out in distinct national
political contexts. Ron Labonté and A ..."
Austerity The Lived Experience (Hardback) by Bryan Evans, StephenMcbride Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2017 by University Of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division ISBN-13: 978-1-4875-0257-7, ISBN: 1-4875-0257-5
"Bryan M. Evans, Stephen McBride, and their contributors delve further into the more practical, ground-level side of the austerity equation in Austerity: The Lived Experience.Economically, austerity policies cannot be seen to work in the way elite interests claim that they do. Rather than soften the blow of the economic and financial crisis of 2008 for ordinary citizens, policies of austerity slow growth and lead to increased inequality. ..."
Working? Employment Policy in Canada by StephenMcbride Paperback, 262 Pages, Published 2017 by Rock's Mills Press ISBN-13: 978-1-77244-054-6, ISBN: 1-77244-054-X
"Recent history has witnessed what might be called a populist revolt, including the election of Donald Trump and the Brexit vote. These political moments reect the alienation of large numbers of people, who feel left behind economically. How did we get here? And to what extent are Canadians "locked" into a given path? Award-winning academic Stephen McBride, whose expertise spans economics, policy, globalization, and labour studies, is a ..."
Austerity The Lived Experience by Bryan M. Evans, StephenMcbride 368 Pages, Published 2017 by University Of Toronto Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4875-1559-1, ISBN: 1-4875-1559-6
"DONNA BAINES Introduction A lengthy debate has taken place across many
literatures regarding the role of the state services as an extension of state control
and coercion, and the role of public sector workers as political actors (Aronowitz
and Bratis 2002; Block 2010; Chorney et al. 1997; Edwards 1978; Jessop 1990;
Miliband and Miliband 1965; Miliband 1983; Panitch 2000; Smith 2000). This role
is not limited to police and military, ..."
Austerity The Lived Experience by StephenMcbride, Bryan Evans, Bryan M. Evans Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2017 by University Of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division ISBN-13: 978-1-4875-2203-2, ISBN: 1-4875-2203-7
"Bryan M. Evans, Stephen McBride, and their contributors delve further into the more practical, ground-level side of the austerity equation in Austerity: The Lived Experience.Economically, austerity policies cannot be seen to work in the way elite interests claim that they do. Rather than soften the blow of the economic and financial crisis of 2008 for ordinary citizens, policies of austerity slow growth and lead to increased inequality. ..."
"Baines, Donna and Douglas Young. 2020. ' Austerity, Personalised Funding and the Degradation of Care Work: Comparing Scotland's Self- Directed Support Policy and Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme', in Donna Baines and Ian ..."
"Marginson, Paul, Maarten Keune, and Dorothee Bohle. 2014. “Negotiating the
Effects of Uncertainty? The Governance Capacity of Collective Bargaining ...
2009. Business, Politics, and Society. New York: Oxford University Press.
Murnighan, Bill, and Jim Stanford. 2013. “'We Will Fight This Crisis': Auto Workers
Resist an Industrial Meltdown.” In From Crisis to Austerity: Neoliberalism, Labour
and the Canadian State, ed. T. Fowler.Otta ..."
Global Turbulence(1st Edition) Social Activists and State Responses to Globalization by Marjorie Griffin Cohen, StephenMcbride Hardcover, Published 2017 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-72264-4, ISBN: 1-138-72264-2
"This title was first published in 2003. States and social activists alike face a turbulent global political economy as they seek to confront new challenges with new strategies. The same is true of academic disciplines that seek to track discontinuities in old certainties and analyse emerging agendas, action, identities and space. In contrast to approaches that argue that the new global order is simply a fact of life, impervious to polit ..."
"Carla Lipsig-Mummé, Stephen McBride. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. While
provinces have made ... an amendment brought in a regulation to establish the
Carnet référence construction, a mandatory online referral service for the
construction industry. Construction workers post a resumé outlining their skills
and training on the Carnet's website, while employers use the site as a clearing
house for finding workers (http://carnet.ccq. ..."
"Global warming is perhaps the greatest challenge facing the twenty-first century. Environmental polices on the one hand, and economic and labour market polices on the other, often exist in separate silos creating a dilemma that Work in a Warming World confronts. The world of work - goods, services, and resources - produces most of the greenhouse gases created by human activity. In engaging essays, contributors demonstrate how the world ..."
"The Political Economy of Social Welfare and Labour Market Policy in Canada
Andrew F. Johnson, Stephen McBride, Patrick J. Smith. extent posited bytheSan
Francisco model, ... N. Glazer The LimitsofSocial Policy(Cambridge, Mass., 1988)
8. 3On 'loadshedding' and 'empowerment' in privatization strategies, see M.
BendickJr 'Privatizing theDelivery of SocialWelfare Services: AnIdeato
BeTakenSeriously' inS.B. Kamerman andA.J. Kahneds. Priv ..."
"Stephen McBride is Professor of Political Science and director of the Centre for
Global Political Economy at Simon Fraser ... His new edited book is: Food for the
Few: Neoliberal Globalism and the Biotechnology Revolution in Latin America ...
Frank Stilwell is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. He is
the coordinating editor of the Journal of Australian Political Economy and the
author of 11 books, including ..."
"The political economy of Australian development in a long-run perspective Ray
Broomhill Introduction In May 1986 the federal Labor government's Treasurer (
later Prime Minister), Paul Keating, sent shock waves through the Australian ..."
Relations of Global Power(1st Edition) Neoliberal Order and Disorder by Gary Teeple, StephenMcbride Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division ISBN-13: 978-1-4426-0365-3, ISBN: 1-4426-0365-8
"This collection of original articles offers an up-to-date, critical review of the global political economy today, covering such topics as international finance, corporate governance, military power, international labour standards, global health, human rights, and more. Assembling a group of top scholars, the editors are able to provide a wide-ranging yet coherent survey of contemporary international institutions and how they are governe ..."