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Employment Equity in Canada

The Legacy of the Abella Report

By: Carol Agocs

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Employment Equity in Canada

The Legacy of the Abella Report

By: Carol Agocs

In the mid-1980s, the Abella Commission on Equality in Employment and the federal Employment Equity Act made Canada a policy leader in addressing systemic discrimination in the workplace. More than twenty-five years later, Employment Equity in Canada assembles a distinguished group of experts to examine the state of employment equity in Canada today. Examining the evidence of nearly thirty years, the contributors – both scholars and practitioners of employment policy – evaluate the history and influence of the Abella Report, the impact of Canada’s employment equity legislation on equality in the workplace, and the future of substantive equality in an environment where the Canadian government is increasingly hostile to intervention in the workplace. They compare Canada’s legal and policy choices to those of the United States and to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and examine ways in which the concept of employment equity might be expanded to embrace other vulnerable communities. Their observations will be essential reading for those seeking to understand the past, present, and future of Canadian employment and equity policy.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442668520

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9781442668522

Opening Carnegie Hall

The Creation and First Performances of America's Premier Concert Stage

By: Carol J. Binkowski

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Opening Carnegie Hall

The Creation and First Performances of America's Premier Concert Stage

By: Carol J. Binkowski

Carnegie Hall is recognized worldwide, associated with the heights of artistic achievement and a multitude of famous performers. Yet its beginnings are not so well known. In 1887, a chance encounter on a steamship bound for Europe brought young conductor Walter Damrosch together with millionaire philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and his new wife, Louise. Their subsequent friendship led to the building of this groundbreaking concert space. This book provides the first comprehensive account of the conception and building of Carnegie Hall, which culminated in a five-day opening festival in May 1891, featuring spectacular music, a host of performers and Tchaikovsky as a special guest conductor.

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251

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McFarland

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0786498722

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9780786498727

The Politics of Affirmative Action

'Women', Equality and Category Politics

By: Carol Lee Bacchi

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The Politics of Affirmative Action

'Women', Equality and Category Politics

By: Carol Lee Bacchi

This book makes a major contribution to an issue of central concern to feminists. It is well written, thoroughly researched and thoughtfully argued. Wide-ranging and comprehensive in scope, the book is carefully structured, using different countries to illustrate the specific ways in which affirmative action is co-opted and contained in practice' - Jeanne Gregory, Middlesex University " This timely and incisive book brings a theoretical lens to the debates around affirmative action. It presents a comparative analysis of those countries reputed to be leading the way in policies for women - the United States, Canada, Australia, Sweden, The Netherlands and Norway. Carol Lee Bacchi draws upon current social and feminist theory to present a lucid analysis of the implementation of reform. Taking account of the particular historical context of affirmative action policies, she considers why expressed commitment to affirmative action for women has failed to translate into meaningful reform. She describes how conceptual and identity categories are given meanings and positioned in debate in ways which work to contain the effects of the reform. Bacchi concludes that proponents of affirmative action need to direct more attention to the political uses of categories than to their abstract content, and to concentrate their efforts upon exposing the effects of category politics.

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214

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SAGE

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1446238350

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9781446238356

Discourses of Domination

Racial Bias in the Canadian English-language Press

By: Frances Henry,Carol Tator

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Discourses of Domination

Racial Bias in the Canadian English-language Press

By: Frances Henry,Carol Tator

Applying critical discourse analysis as their principal methodology, Frances Henry and Carol Tator investigate the way in which the media produce, reproduce, and disseminate racist thinking through language and discourse.

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308

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University of Toronto Press

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0802084575

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9780802084576

Gender and Rights

By: Carol Sanger

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Gender and Rights

By: Carol Sanger

Gender and Rights presents twenty five essays by leading international scholars and advocates the relationship between rights and gender inequality. The essays are organized into six categories: rights, sources of harm and well-being, work, family, violence and political process and participation. Particular attention is paid throughout to the relationship between cultural practices and legal rights. The volume also highlights the conceptual and the political development of rights claims and rights regimes for women and sexual minorities. The essays therefore focus not only on the theoretical justifications for rights but also on the contextual complexities of their enactment, implementation, enforcement and consequences.

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671

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Routledge

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1351157701

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9781351157704

Employment Equity in Canada

The Legacy of the Abella Report

By: Carol Agócs

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Employment Equity in Canada

The Legacy of the Abella Report

By: Carol Agócs

In the mid-1980s, the Abella Commission on Equality in Employment and the federal Employment Equity Act made Canada a policy leader in addressing systemic discrimination in the workplace. More than twenty-five years later, Employment Equity in Canada assembles a distinguished group of experts to examine the state of employment equity in Canada today. Examining the evidence of nearly thirty years, the contributors both scholars and practitioners of employment policy evaluate the history and influence of the Abella Report, the impact of Canada's employment equity legislation on equality in the workplace, and the future of substantive equality in an environment where the Canadian government is increasingly hostile to intervention in the workplace. They compare Canada's legal and policy choices to those of the United States and to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and examine ways in which the concept of employment equity might be expanded to embrace other vulnerable communities. Their observations will be essential reading for those seeking to understand the past, present, and future of Canadian employment and equity policy.

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1442615621

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Employment Equity in Canada

The Legacy of the Abella Report

By: International Association of Legal Science

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Employment Equity in Canada

The Legacy of the Abella Report

By: International Association of Legal Science

More than twenty-five years after the Abella Commission on Equality in Employment, Employment Equity in Canada examines the state of employment equity in Canada today.

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Book's by Carol Agocs

Employment Equity in Canada

Employment Equity in Canada

Opening Carnegie Hall

Opening Carnegie Hall

The Politics of Affirmative Action

The Politics of Affirmative Action

Discourses of Domination

Discourses of Domination

Gender and Rights

Gender and Rights

Employment Equity in Canada

Employment Equity in Canada

Employment Equity in Canada

Employment Equity in Canada

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