… gin craze, a chapter in English history that marked the unprecedented mass consumption of this newly developed spirit. This paper traces the development of this complex urban phenomenon and examines how Parliamentarians came to attribute many of the social ills of the day, including criminal activity, to gin drinking. It is seen that the passage of the Gin Acts were counterproductive and in …

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… Story: Labour, Welfare, and Workplace

Periodizing our Current Moment: Work-Well-Fare As a New Mode of Social Regulation
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Matthew Lymburner, Political Economy
From Disabled to Dispossessed: CPP Disability Benefits and the Decline of Social Citizenship Rights in Canada
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Mary Rita Holland, Public Policy
Gazing Back Into the Closet: Theorizing about …

… Canada Pension Plan Disability (CPPD) benefits program. CPPD ostensibly serves to provide income security to pension-contributors who find themselves incapable of work due to chronic health conditions. Rising CPPD caseloads during the 1980s and early 1990s coupled with growing debt aversion in Canada led to predictions that the pension well would soon run dry. Such fears lent credence to …

… ‘Entrepreneurial City’: Labour’s Contradictory Role in the Upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver 
As Vancouver prepares for the upcoming Winter Olympics in 2010, the bid process has dominated urban discourse with its aim to transform Vancouver into a ‘world-class,’ competitive global-city. This essay will use the Olympic Games as an empirical case study to …

Author: Matthew Nelson

… workplace. This paper will attempt to tease out some of the regulatory forces that inform the coming out process for queer women in western states. Access to resources in the workplace takes on specific gendered and heteronormative consequences for those queer women who choose to cross this boundary and disclose their sexuality to their co-workers, subordinates and bosses. While this paper …

Tags: access, critical theory, gender, labour, queer, surveillance, women

… title of my paper contains an assortment of words relevant to current labor studies – networks, struggle, unions – but one word, or more aptly, one concept, will certainly stand out as peculiar: work-well-fare. What is this concept? What does it mean? I argue that work-well-fare is a tendency towards a renewed class compromise for America; a meeting point for capital and labor to …

Author: Matthew Lymburner

… global geographies of local marginality
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Michael A. Lithgow, Mass Communication
Travelling third class: regulating the transport of farm animals in Canada
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Michelle Barrett, Political Economy
National Identity Examined: A Study of the Quebec Nation
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Rachel Ariey-Jouglard, Political Science
A Prosperous Uncertainty: The …

… Visual Representation of Distant Suffering
A public lecture by Fuyuki Kurasawa, given on March 28, 2008 at the Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University.

How is visuality — understood here as the mutual constitution of the visual and the social (W. J. T. Mitchell) — implicated in the mediated construction of instances of distant suffering in various parts …

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Tags: art, cinema, critical theory, humanitarianism, photography, visual economy, visuality

… relationship between these new spaces and contemporary capitalism? In this paper, I explore some of the political-economic implications of technological transformation and reflect on the social effects of producing, communicating and existing in virtual space. Although the use of online social networking is nothing new, the emergence of virtual worlds such as Second Life provide for unique …

… research looks at how ‘animal welfare’ as an idea or a goal is framed through the process of developing public policy and regulation in Canada. As a case study, I am looking at the current proposed amendments to the Health of Animals Regulations, which govern the transport of farmed animals. By examining how animal welfare is understood and constructed through the dialogue …

… over-valorization of the global spatial has created renewed interest in recovering the role of the ‘local’ in the creation, maintenance and expansion of global flows and networks. Global place(s) are the urban territories where global networks ‘touchdown’ and organize material capabilities. This reorganization of urban space also creates new geographies of marginality …

… nation is immutable, it has always existed and its members must impede its violation and ensure its future existence by putting it at the top of their priorities. Using critical geography theories, this paper questions the necessity of one of today’s most unquestioned assumption. To begin, the three components of the nation—the people, the territory or homeland, and a mystical bond …

… creation of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) in 2003 marks an attempt to integrate all of Canada’s various border-controlling agencies and acts under one enforcement organization; it’s function is to provide “integrated border services that support national security and public safety priorities and facilitate the movement of persons and goods.” In taking on this role, the …

… home country and immigrate to France construct ideal images of their new lives in their new country. These ideal images are based on hopes of a better, more plentiful, and freer life which could not be found in Algeria due to poverty, the heritage of French colonialism, and ethnic segregation. In The Suffering of the Immigrant, Abdelmalek Sayad presents a series of interviews with …

… Lines: Globalization, Dissent and Democracy

The Internationalization/Transnationalization of the State and its Relation to Low-Intensity Democracy: The Case of Haiti
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Ray Silvius & Neil Burron, Political Science
Networks of Power: The World Water Council in Global and Local Contexts
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Emma Lui, Political Economy
Spatial Strategies in the …