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Book SynopsisTaken as a whole, these essays pursue a careful consideration of the historical and contemporary exclusions to polity that occur around gender, ethnicity, class, and race.
Trade Review'A broad readership will be drawn to this book. It will be of interest not only to people wanting to know more about Woodsworth or the &lduo;history of the left&rduo; but also to anyone interested in making another, better, world possible through collective action.' -- Karen Bridget Murray BC Studies, no. 172, Winter 2011/12
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Contributors * A Common Interest? Refl ections on the Social Legacy of J.S. Woodsworth and the Contemporary Politics of Social Change in Canada by Jane Pulkingham * The Historical Woodsworth and Contemporary Politics by Allen Mills (University of Winnipeg) * Labour Rights in an Interregnum: The Ambiguous Legacy of J.S. Woodsworth by Eeric Tucker (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University) * The Changing Struggle for Rights: A Critical Look at the Origins and Fate of Human Rights by Gary Teeple (Simon Fraser University) * Social Rights Are Human Rights: Furthering the Democratic Project by Hugh Shewell (Carleton University) * Human Rights and Poverty: A Twenty-First Century Tribute to J.S. Woodsworth and Call for Human Rights by Gwen Brodsky (Poverty and Human Rights Centre, Vancouver) * Human Needs above Property Rights? Rethinking the Woodsworth Legacy in an Era of Economic Globalization by David Schneiderman (University of Toronto) * Zones of Abandonment: The Cultural Politics of Public Health in Vancouver's Inner City by Denielle Elliott (University of British Columbia) *'Re-construction' from the Viewpoint of Precarious Labour: The Practice of Solidarity by Geraldina Polanco (University of British Columbia) and Cecily Nicholson (Downtown Eastside Women's Center and Shelter, Vancouver) * J.S. Woodsworth and the Discourse of White Civility by Daniel Coleman (McMaster University) * Embodied Memory: Universal Citizenship and Indigenous Cree Identity by Neal McLeod (Trent University) * Canadians of Tomorrow: J.S. Woodsworth and the New Ethnicities by David Chariandy (Simon Fraser University) Index
