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- Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do
The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
- The American Class System
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
- Bound By Power
Intended Consequences
Resource Type: Book
These essays focus on how power and ideology work within society. Interviews are with Noam Chomsky, Linda McQuaig, Robert Bertuzzi and others. They speak to the issues of the understanding of power and political dissent, the repression of dissent in post 9/11 media coverage and the war on terror.
- Calculated Chaos
Institutional Threats to Peace and Human Survival
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
Discusses the role of institutions within society and how their interests have lead to conflict and war over the past century.
- Compass Points
Navigating the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
A radical history of the twentieth century by a wide of Canadian authors and essayists grappling with crucial developments in politics, economics, society, and culture in Canada and abroad.
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- The Crisis of Modern Society
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1967
Based on a talk given by Paul Cardan at Kent in 1965, "Crisis" elucidates upon the several endemic problems of modern societies, touching on the sciences, education, and the organization of work.
- The Dialectical Imagination
A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research
Resource Type: Book
- A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
- Drawing the Line
A pamphlet
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1962
- The Ecology of Freedom
The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
Bookchin's synthesis of ecology, anthropology and political theory traces conflicting legacies of hierarchy and freedom from the first emergence of human culture to today's globalized capitalism, constantly pointing the way to a sane, sustainable ecological future.
- The Economics of Happiness
Building Genuine Wealth
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
Anielski's premise is quite simple: how can we go beyond mere material wealth to achieve veritable wealth-good health, meaningful relationships, spirituality, a clean environment, peace, justice and happiness. He believes that economic systems should orient us to what we really want.
- The English Peasantry in the Later Middle Ages
The Ford Lectures for 1973 and Related Studies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
Investigates the question of whether or not peasants might be considered their own social class.
- 1492-1992 -- Five Centuries of Imperialism and Resistance
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
Articles critiquing the "Columbus myth, and chronicles the repression of North America's original indigenous inhabitants.
- Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada.
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
See also CX3147.
- Global Imperative
Harmonizing Culture and Nature
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- 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".
- The Great Turning as Compass and Lens
Yes! Magazine Summer 2006
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
The Great Turning is a name for the transition from the industrial growth society to a life-sustaining society. It identifies the shift from a self-destroying political economy to one in harmony with Earth and enduring for the future. It unites and includes all the actions being taken to honor and preserve life on Earth. It is the essential adventure of our time.
- The Great War and Canadian Society
An Oral History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
Recollections of Canadian men and women who lived thorugh the First World War and recall life in the trenches and on the homefront.
- Green Politics
Agenda For a Free Society
Resource Type: Book
An international suvey of Green political parties, their programs and their progress toward setting up a society that is ecologically sustainable, economically viable and socially just.
- If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?
Finding Common Ground
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Stories help us live our lives -- and are at the heart of our current conflicts. We love and hate because of them; we make homes for ourselves and drive others out on the basis of ancient tales -- it is now more important than ever to attend to what others are saying in their stories and myths.
- Income and Health
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- The Invention of the White Race
Volume One: Racial Oppression and Social Control
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
One of the great contributions of Allen's study is a complete debunking of the myth that race and skin colour are the same thing.
- Keywords
A Vocabulary of Culture and Society
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
Williams examines more than 100 familiar words and explores how they are used.
- Kropokin on Mutual Aid - Review
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1956
- Life, Money & Illusion
Living on Earth as if We Want to Stay
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
The failure to reduce green house gas emissions, the success of efforts to curb ozone depletion, causes related to prosperity and social justice are just some the topics covered. By using the example of Kerela, India, Nickerson shows how a society by working together can become car-free, religious and bigotry free, have a high level of health care and literacy and be able to sustain itself on a fraction of the money on which we depend.
- The Long Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
- Marxists Internet Archive
Resource Type: Website
Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
- Mass Culture
The Popular Arts in America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1957
- Media and Society
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
A student text for popular culture and media studies programmes.
- Peaceful Measures
Canada's Way Out of the War on Drugs
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
- The Post- Industrial Utopians
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- Remaking Society
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
- Rogue Primate
An Exploration of Human Domestication
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
The first domesticated animal, according to Livingston, was neither dog nor goat, but human. Humans cut themselves adrift from the rest of the world by becoming entirely dependent on ideas. Technical ideas gave them the power to manipulate nature as well as a rationalization for their destructiveness. Now humans have drawn other animals, and even the natural world itself, into the service of their belief systems. Even our understanding of nature is informed by an ideological insistence that domination is somehow 'natural'.
- The Sane Society
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1955
A critical evaluation of the effects of contemporary Western culture on the mental health and sanity of the people living within it.
- Situationist International Anthology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
A selection of Situationist writings.
- Society of Citizens of the World
Resource Type: Book
- The Status Seekers
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1959
- Towns for People
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
Examines the pressures, lifestyle changes, and social factors that contributed to the decline in urban public life in the late 20th century.
- The Uses of Disorder
Personal Identity and City Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
An examination of the ways the modern city has failed, and an exploration of new modes of urban organization through which city life can become richer and more life-affirming.
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