- Abahlali baseMjondolo
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A shack-dwellers' movement in South Africa.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 6 - March 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Christians, Church and People Called the Poor...
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
- Class Bias in Toronto Schools
Downtown Kids Aren't Dumb: They Need A Better Program
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1971
A brief by the Park School community council addressing the streaming of poor and working class children into the bottom levels of the school system. These children, the brief says, have badly developed basic skills, particularly in reading and writing. Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 5, Number 4, Fall/Winter 1971.
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 1 - February 1979 - National Security/Securite Nationale
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 2 - March 1979 - Native Rights/Les Droits des Autochtones
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 1 - January 1980 - Literacy/Alphabetisation
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 2 - April 1981 - Urban Core/Milieu Urbain
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1984
- Connexions
Volume 9, Number 3 - Fall 1984 - Housing - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1984
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Decline of the English Murder
And Other Essays
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
A collection of essays by George Orwell.
- Democracy for the Few
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
How does the U.S. political system work and for what purpose? What are the major forces shaping political life and how do they operate? Who governs in the United States? Who gets what, when, how, and why? Who pays and in what ways. These are the central questions investigated in this book.
- Down and Out in Paris and London
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
Life near the bottom in France and England in the early 1930s.
- Dying for Growth
Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor
Resource Type: Book
- East York Workers' Association
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The East York Workers' Association (EYWA) was an unemployment movement that developed during the Great Depression in the township of East York, Ontario.
- The Economics of Injustice
Poverty
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
Various aspects of poverty in Canada, the guaranteed income plan & social justice.
- The End of Poverty?
Resource Type: Film
Published: 2008
Today, global poverty has reached new levels because of unfair debt, trade and tax policies -- in other words, wealthy countries exploiting the weaknesses of poor, developing countries.
- Enemies of the People
How hatred of the masses bridges our partisan divide
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
As we veer into a brave new age of right-wing populism, a restive mood of contempt for the masses has seized the opposition. Demoralized liberals, still reeling from the debacle of the 2016 presidential ballot, are salving their wounds with reveries of metaphysical superiority.
- Eradicating Extreme Poverty
Democracy, Globalisation and Human Rights
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
A new approach to eradicating extreme poverty, contrasted with conventional "top-down" approaches.
- Ethical Reflections on the economic crisis
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1983
January 1983 statement by the Canadian Roman Catholic Bishops.
- Finding North
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
A documentary that investigates incidents of hunger experienced by millions of Americans, and proposed solutions to the problem.
- 40 Reasons Our Jails and Prisons Are Full of Black and Poor People
It's Not Just About Crime!
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Quigley provides a list of reasons why the majority of prisoners in US jails are Black and poor people.
- The Great Transformation
The political and economic origins of our time
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
Polanyi analyzes the social and political upheavals that took place in England during the rise of the market economy. Polanyi contends that the modern market economy and the modern nation-state should be understood not as discrete elements, but as a single human invention he calls the "Market Society".
- How People Get Power
Organizing Oppressed Communities for Action
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
A book about community organizing, written for organizers.
- I am Occupied/Yo Soy Occupado
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
- An Interracial Movement of the Poor
Community Organizing and the New Left in the 1960s
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2001
- The Irresistible Revolution
Living as an Ordinary Radical
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
- The Just Society Movement
For the Poor by the Poor - A Model for Grassroots Activism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The Just Society Movement (1968 - 1972) was a short-lived but remarkably successful Toronto based grassroots social and political advocacy network run by and for Toronto’s poorest residents.
- Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits
Great Cities of North America Since 1600
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
An exploration of city life through time, focusing on the life [economically, socially, politically, etc.] of five large North American cities at various times in the past - Philadelphia during the time of Benjamin Franklin (1760), New York in the mid nineteenth-century (1860), Chicago at the beginning of the Progressivist Civic Movements (1910), Los Angeles during the immediate Post-war boom (1950) and Toronto at the beginning of its own ascendancy in the 1970's. (1975).
- Mama Illegal
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
They gave the smugglers all their money and risk their life on their journey across borders: Three women from a small town in Moldavia, living now in Austria and Italy as cleaning women. On top of their hard job they live a life in illegality without documents, far away from their children and family for years.
- A Model of Theological Reflection
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1976
Training document to organise analysis of the conditions that foster the existence of skid row.
- More Unequal
Aspects of Class in the United States
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
Yates looks at class from a global vantage point integrating discussions of race, gender, and class, and the emergence of an international capitalist class.
- The Myth of the Good Corporate Citizen
Democracy Under the Rule of Big Business
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
Dobbin argues that transnational corporations (TNG's) have power over every nation's government; they are not the good citizens they claim to be.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Class, Caste & Hierarchies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
Concentrates mainly on the history of social hierarchy in Western civilization, and particularly the struggles of the working class.
- Option for the poor
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
The option for the poor or the preferential option for the poor is one of the basic principles of the Catholic social teaching as articulated in the 20th century.
- Organizing "The Poor" - Against The Working Class
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1971
The newly found "poor" have become a focus for middle class activists. Having learned in the schools and universities that the working class either did not exist or that if it existed, it was co-opted and apathetic and could not possible act as the agent for social change, they found it "refreshing" to locate this new constituency.
- Photography and the Powerless
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1971
A critique of photographers who come to exploit "the poor."
- The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism
Hobbes to Locke
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
A fundamental reinterpretation of political theory from Hobbes to Locke which emphasizes the role of liberal political theory in justifying the appropriation of property to private ownership.
- Poor fetishes, poor critiques: gentrification as violence
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Hating on hipsters is not the answer to gentrification. If we want to reclaim our cities, we should organize for genuinely affordable housing in common, argues Gloria Dawson.
- Poverty in Wealth
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1976
A critique of existing poverty research in Canada.
- Second-class health care for immigrants, seniors?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
A two-tier system means better care for the affluent, and worse or no care for the rest.
- Some Lives
A GP's East End
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
The author, a Marxist and a doctor, writes about the patients he treated in Canary Wharf - a community in East London plagued by poverty and crime.
- This Land Is Their Land
Reports from a Divided Nation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
A look at the effects of corporate Americ on the general populace, pointing out the tactic of side-tracking those who would protest onto more superficial issues.
- Toronto's Poor
A Rebellious History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2916
Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how the homeless, the unemployed, and the destitute have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present.
- What Difference Could a Revolution Make?
Food and Farming in The New Nicarauga
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
Reports on the dramatic changes brought by the first three years of the Sandinista revolution.
- When Plutocrats Blame the Poor
Hard Times Redux
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The image of the self-made man has always been a fiction concocted for the edification of the poor, not a concrete policy prescription, as should be clear by now from the behavior of our very own ‘self-made’ caste of plutocrats.
- Why the Left Isn't Talking About Rural American Poverty
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Within the popular American conscience there are two favoured focal points for discussing the problem of poverty. The first is within the urban, inner city context and the second is the poverty of the Global South: Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and the rest of the developing world. What seldom gets talked about -- and when it is, often with irreverent humor and contempt -- is the poverty of rural America, particularly rural white America: Appalachia, the Ozarks, the Mississippi Delta, the Dakotas, the Rio Grande Valley, the Cotton Belt. So why is the poverty of rural America largely unexamined, even avoided?
- Women Organizing for Change
Confronting the Crisis in Latin America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
A series of articles which seek to examine the effects of recent profound economic, social and political crises of the part several years, particularly the effects of the crisis on the lives of women in the region.
- Yonge Street Mission
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
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