{"product_id":"from-consent-to-coercion-bryan-evans-9781487524364","title":"From Consent to Coercion: The Continuing Assault on Labour, Fourth Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom Consent to Coercion\u003c\/em\u003e examines the increasing assault against trade union rights and freedoms in Canada by federal and provincial governments. Centring the struggles of Canadian unionized workers, this book explores the diminution of the welfare state and the impacts that this erosion has had on broader working-class rights and standards of living.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fourth edition witnesses the passing of an era of free collective bargaining in Canada - an era in which the state and capital relied on obtaining the consent of workers and unions to act as subordinates in Canada's capitalist democracy. It looks at how the last twenty years have marked a return to a more open reliance of the state and capital on coercion - on force and on fear - to secure that subordination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eFrom Consent to Coercion\u003c\/i\u003e considers this conjuncture in the Canadian political economy amid growing precarity, poverty, and polarization in an otherwise indeterminate period of austerity. This important edition calls attention to the urgent task of rebuilding and renewing socialist politics - of thinking ambitiously and meeting new challenges with unique solutions to the left of social democracy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bryan Evans, Carlo Fanelli, Leo Panitch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1487524366\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487524364\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Bryan Evans","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44066024947967,"sku":"9781487524364","price":42.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_50b40478-a3f4-4c45-a619-dee909a32e85.jpg?v=1685404903","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/from-consent-to-coercion-bryan-evans-9781487524364","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}