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Humans: The 300,000-Year Struggle for Equality

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Humans: The 300,000-Year Struggle for Equality

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This is a history of humanity like it's never been told before. Historian Alvin Finkel builds on the work of archaeologists, anthropologists and historians to present the very long view of the history of the human species. His focus is not on the leaders whose exploits are recounted in traditional histories, but rather on the experiences of ordinary people, the 99%, whose experiences and activities are often overlooked. In the extensive research of many contemporary scholars, Alvin Finkel notes a common thread which most historians have ignored: the constant efforts of ordinary people throughout history to create and sustain societies based on equality of all individuals. Contrary to traditional historical writing, he finds that the earliest human communities usually treated all individuals as equals. In the histories of societies all around the world, he records how individuals who found ways to gain wealth and power have faced constant, often successful, resistance from the rest. From the first recorded communities in Mesopotamia to the COVID-19 pandemic, this book features the resistances, uprisings, struggles, and solidarities of the majority against those seeking to dominate. The result is a fresh and challenging interpretation of the history of our species, one that casts a new light on the true nature of humans.

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Social Policy and Practice in Canada

A History

By: Alvin Finkel

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Social Policy and Practice in Canada

A History

By: Alvin Finkel

Social Policy and Practice in Canada: A History traces the history of social policy in Canada from the period of First Nations’ control to the present day, exploring the various ways in which residents of the area known today as Canada have organized themselves to deal with (or to ignore) the needs of the ill, the poor, the elderly, and the young. This book is the first synthesis on social policy in Canada to provide a critical perspective on the evolution of social policy in the country. While earlier work has treated each new social program as a major advance, and reacted with shock to neoliberalism’s attack on social programs, Alvin Finkel demonstrates that right-wing and left-wing forces have always battled to shape social policy in Canada. He argues that the notion of a welfare state consensus in the period after 1945 is misleading, and that the social programs developed before the neoliberal counteroffensive were far less radical than they are sometimes depicted. Social Policy and Practice in Canada: A History begins by exploring the non-state mechanisms employed by First Nations to insure the well-being of their members. It then deals with the role of the Church in New France and of voluntary organizations in British North America in helping the unfortunate. After examining why voluntary organizations gradually gave way to state-controlled programs, the book assesses the evolution of social policy in Canada in a variety of areas, including health care, treatment of the elderly, child care, housing, and poverty.

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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1554588863

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Our Lives: Canada After 1945

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By: Alvin Finkel

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Our Lives: Canada After 1945

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The people, forces, and events that have shaped post-war Canada

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James Lorimer & Company

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Compassion

A Global History of Social Policy

By: Alvin Finkel

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Compassion

A Global History of Social Policy

By: Alvin Finkel

Compassion traces the ways in which various societies across the globe have responded to the vulnerable among them from early human history to the present. Along the way, Alvin Finkel assesses the impacts of economic developments, colonialism, political arrangements, gender, race, and social class in influencing how different peoples have defined the rights of individuals and communities facing hardship. From Russia to Iran, from Scandinavia to Vietnam, this book looks at how social policy has been shaped by global social forces such as capitalism, imperialism and neoliberalism and analyses why different countries and regions diverged in their ways of dealing with inequalities and social needs. This is a valuable resource for students on history, sociology or social work degrees taking modules or courses on the history of welfare/social policy or global history.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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Our Lives

Canada After 1945

By: Alvin Finkel

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Our Lives

Canada After 1945

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Canada has undergone many changes in the decades following World War II. From post-war prosperity and grrowing nationalism to corporate downsizing and globalization, the events of this six-decade period have been some of the most radical in the country's history. Author Alvin Finkel looks at the people, forces, and events that have shaped post-war Canada. All the major themes in our history are discussed: the evolution of the welfare state, our economic domination by the United States, our halcyon days as a Middle Power, the Quiet Revolution, the First Nations' quest for autonomy, the flowering of English-Canadian nationalism, the rise of western alienation, the women's movement, Quebec nationalism, neo-conservatism, and globalization. Extensively illustrated, Our Lives: Canada after 1945is the first book for general readers to look in detail at Canada from the mid-forties through the mid-nineties. Successfully marrying the new social history with politics and economics, it is more than simply informative, provoking readers into a reconsideration of the key events that have shaped the country.

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James Lorimer

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1550285505

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Business and Social Reform in the Thirties

By: Alvin Finkel

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Business and Social Reform in the Thirties

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This book challenges the commonly accepted view that governments enacted social reforms in the 1930s in response to demands for more equitable redistribution of wealth in a time of trouble, robbing from the rich to give to the poor. Alvin Finkel demonstrates conclusively that Canadian big business was overwhelmingly in favour of more state intervention during the Thirties in the economic and social sphere. Private enterprise in Canada has always depended on government aid--capital grants, high tariffs, the repression of organized labour--and in the 1930s, the corporations' need for help was more acute than ever before. They realized that the capitalist system could not survive without legislated structural reforms that would provide safeguards for private investment and profit under the guise of social welfare. Examining the emergence of an unprecedented intertwining of business and government mangement during the Depression, Business and Social Reform in the Thirties analyzes an inordinant concentration of power that remains with us today.

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James Lorimer & Company

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The Social Credit Phenomenon in Alberta

By: Alvin Finkel

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The Social Credit Phenomenon in Alberta

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In this account of the Social Credit transformation, Alvin Finkel challenges earlier works which focus purely on Social Credit monetary fixations and religiosity.

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Business and Social Reform in the Thirties

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Our Lives: Canada After 1945

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By: Alvin Finkel

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Humans: The 300,000-Year Struggle for Equality

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The Social Credit Phenomenon in Alberta

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The Social Credit Phenomenon in Alberta

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In this account of the Social Credit transformation, Alvin Finkel challenges earlier works which focus purely on Social Credit monetary fixations and religiosity.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802058213

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Refractory Migraine

Mechanisms and Management

By: Elliot A. Schulman, FACP, MD,Morris Levin, MD,Alvin E. Lake, III., PhD,Elizabeth Loder, MPH, MD

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Refractory Migraine

Mechanisms and Management

By: Elliot A. Schulman, FACP, MD,Morris Levin, MD,Alvin E. Lake, III., PhD,Elizabeth Loder, MPH, MD

A must-have book for any health professional who treats patients with headache disorders, Refractory Migraine is written by international experts from the world's top headache centers. It describes how they approach the treatment of migraine patients who continue to suffer despite appropriate medical treatment. First, it highlights current ideas about the definition and characterization of refractory migraine, and reviews underlying causes and contributing factors. Then, individual chapters cover every important aspect of migraine treatment with the focus entirely on refractory forms of the disorder. Its many features include detailed algorithms for outpatient and inpatient withdrawal from overused medications, innovative drug therapy and nonpharmacological treatments, a list of questions to ask before deciding to try hormonal therapies, and detailed descriptions of how to recognize and interact with patients who have challenging personality disorders or concomitant psychiatric problems. We're confident you'll often turn to this book for advice about challenges in migraine management. When you do, the bulleted lists and boxes that highlight and condense the main messages of each chapter put the information you need at your fingertips. If you treat patients with migraine, you will recognize many of the challenging situations and topics covered in this book - and you will be encouraged by the innovative and resourceful therapeutic strategies suggested by seasoned headache doctors with a wealth of clinical experience. Readable, comprehensive and up to date, this book gives you access to ingenious treatment approaches developed and refined in specialty headache clinics that regularly - and successfully - treat patients with refractory headache problems. When you meet the next migraine patient who says "I've tried it all, and nothing works", you will know where to go for practical advice about what to do next.

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Oxford University Press

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0190453192

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The End of the Holocaust

By: Alvin H. Rosenfeld

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The End of the Holocaust

By: Alvin H. Rosenfeld

“An illuminating exploration that offers a worried look at Holocaust representation in contemporary culture and politics.” —H-Holocaust In this provocative work, Alvin H. Rosenfeld contends that the proliferation of books, films, television programs, museums, and public commemorations related to the Holocaust has, perversely, brought about a diminution of its meaning and a denigration of its memory. Investigating a wide range of events and cultural phenomena, such as Ronald Reagan’s 1985 visit to the German cemetery at Bitburg, the distortions of Anne Frank’s story, and the ways in which the Holocaust has been depicted by such artists and filmmakers as Judy Chicago and Steven Spielberg, Rosenfeld charts the cultural forces that have minimized the Holocaust in popular perceptions. He contrasts these with sobering representations by Holocaust witnesses such as Jean Améry, Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, and Imre Kertész. The book concludes with a powerful warning about the possible consequences of “the end of the Holocaust” in public consciousness. “Forcefully written, as always, his new volume honors his entire life as teacher and writer attached to the principles of intellectual integrity and moral responsibility. Here, too, he demonstrates erudition and knowledge, a gift for analysis and astonishing insight. Teachers and students alike will find this book to be a great gift.” —Elie Wiesel “This remarkable new work of scholarship—written in accessible language and not in obscure academese—is exactly the Holocaust book the world needs now.” —Bill’s Faith Matters Blog “This book has monumental importance in Holocaust studies because it demands answers to the question how our culture is inscribing the Holocaust in its history and memory.” —Arcadia

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Indiana University Press

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0253000920

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9780253000927

Differential Oral Diagnosis in Systemic Disease

By: Alvin F. Gardner

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Differential Oral Diagnosis in Systemic Disease

By: Alvin F. Gardner

Differential Oral Diagnosis in Systemic Disease focuses on oral manifestations of systemic disease, including glomerulonephritis, hepatitis, cirrhosis, and lung infection. The publication first takes a look at the diseases of the heart and blood-vessels, respiratory tract, and genito-urinary system correlated to the oral tissues. Topics include metastatic neoplasms from the kidney to the oral region, malignant neoplasms of the kidney, glomerulonephritis, metastases of neoplasms of the lungs to the oral cavity, dental sepsis and lung infection, thrombophlebitis, and congenital anomalies of the heart. The manuscript ponders on the diseases of the liver and biliary tract and gastro-intestinal tract correlated to the oral tissues and diseases of the hematopoietic system. Discussions focus on oral manifestations of alterations in white blood-cells and red blood-cells, oral manifestations of diseases of the gastro-intestinal tract, diseases of the stomach and the intestine, cirrhosis of the liver, correlation of fatty change of the liver to dentistry, and transmission of viral hepatitis correlated to dentistry. The book is a dependable reference for dentists and physicians wanting to study the oral manifestations of systemic disease.

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Butterworth-Heinemann

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1483193322

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Labour Law in the USA

By: Alvin L. Goldman,Roberto L. Corrada

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Labour Law in the USA

By: Alvin L. Goldman,Roberto L. Corrada

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this monograph on the USA not only describes and analyses the legal aspects of labour relations, but also examines labour relations practices and developing trends. It provides a survey of the subject that is both usefully brief and sufficiently detailed to answer most questions likely to arise in any pertinent legal setting. Both individual and collective labour relations are covered in ample detail, with attention to such underlying and pervasive factors as employment contracts, suspension of the contracts, dismissal laws and covenant of non-competition, as well as international private law. The author describes all important details of the law governing hours and wages, benefits, intellectual property implications, trade union activity, employers’ associations, workers’ participation, collective bargaining, industrial disputes, and much more. Building on a clear overview of labour law and labour relations, the book offers practical guidance on which sound preliminary decisions may be based. It will find a ready readership among lawyers representing parties with interests in the USA, and academics and researchers will appreciate its value in the study of comparative trends in laws affecting labour and labour relations.

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Kluwer Law International B.V.

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940350014X

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9789403500140

Nation and Society

Readings in Post-confederation Canadian History

By: Margaret Conrad,Alvin Finkel

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Nation and Society

Readings in Post-confederation Canadian History

By: Margaret Conrad,Alvin Finkel

Designed to accompany the two-volume History of the Canadian Peoples and the one-volume synthesis, Canada: A National History. This book can also supplement any survey of Canadian history text or serve as a stand-alone text. Nation and Society: Readings in Post-Confederation Canadian History offers students a sample of some of the best recent scholarship on the history of Canada since Confederation. The readings are grouped in a combination of time periods and themes that are commonly used in studies of the post-Confederation period: "Inventing Canada, 1867-1914"; "Economy and Society in the Industrial Age, 1867-1918"; "Transitional Years: Canada 1919-1945"; "Reinventing Canada, 1945-1975"; and "Post-Modern Canada.

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Prentice Hall

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0201743795

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9780201743791

Compassion

A Global History of Social Policy

By: Alvin Finkel

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A Global History of Social Policy

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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Social Policy and Practice in Canada

A History

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A History

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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Working People in Alberta

A History

By: Alvin Finkel

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Working People in Alberta

A History

By: Alvin Finkel

A political and economic analysis of the history of working people in Alberta.

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Athabasca University Press

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1926836588

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Workers in Hard Times

A Long View of Economic Crises

By: Leon Fink,Joseph A. McCartin,Joan Sangster

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Workers in Hard Times

A Long View of Economic Crises

By: Leon Fink,Joseph A. McCartin,Joan Sangster

Seeking to historicize the 2007-2009 Great Recession, this volume of essays situates the current economic crisis and its impact on workers in the context of previous abrupt shifts in the modern-day capitalist marketplace. Contributors use examples from industrialized North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia to demonstrate how workers and states have responded to those shifts and to their disempowering effects on labor. Since the Industrial Revolution, contributors argue, factors such as race, sex, and state intervention have mediated both the effect of economic depressions on workers' lives and workers' responses to those depressions. Contributors also posit a varying dynamic between political upheaval and economic crises, and between workers and the welfare state. The volume ends with an examination of today's "Great Recession": its historical distinctiveness, its connection to neoliberalism, and its attendant expressions of worker status and agency around the world. A sobering conclusion lays out a likely future for workers--one not far removed from the instability and privation of the nineteenth century. The essays in this volume offer up no easy solutions to the challenges facing today's workers. Nevertheless, they make clear that cogent historical thinking is crucial to understanding those challenges, and they push us toward a rethinking of the relationship between capital and labor, the waged and unwaged, and the employed and jobless. Contributors are Sven Beckert, Sean Cadigan, Leon Fink, Alvin Finkel, Wendy Goldman, Gaetan Heroux, Joseph A. McCartin, David Montgomery, Edward Montgomery, Scott Reynolds Nelson, Melanie Nolan, Bryan D. Palmer, Joan Sangster, Judith Stein, Hilary Wainright, and Lu Zhang.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252095979

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