Recruiting Immigrant Workers: Canada 2019

Recruiting Immigrant Workers: Canada 2019
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Publisher : OECD Publishing
Total Pages : 204
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ISBN-10 : 9789264931398
ISBN-13 : 9264931392
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Recruiting Immigrant Workers: Canada 2019 by : OECD

Canada has not only the largest in terms of numbers, but also the most elaborate and longest-standing skilled labour migration system in the OECD. Largely as a result of many decades of managed labour migration, more than one in five people in Canada is foreign-born, one of the highest shares in the OECD. 60% of Canada’s foreign-born population are highly educated, the highest share OECD-wide.

Doing Business 2020

Doing Business 2020
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Publisher : World Bank Publications
Total Pages : 254
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ISBN-10 : 9781464814419
ISBN-13 : 1464814414
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis Doing Business 2020 by : World Bank

Seventeen in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2020 measures aspects of regulation affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity.

Sea Change

Sea Change
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Publisher : UBC Press
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9780774869065
ISBN-13 : 0774869062
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Sea Change by : Ussif Rashid Sumaila

As climate change, resource overexploitation, and pollution leave ever more visible marks, ocean ecosystems, economies, and people are all affected. With coasts on the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic, Canada faces a formidable challenge in building resilient, sustainable oceans and supporting the communities that rely on them. Sea Change reports on the OceanCanada Partnership, a multidisciplinary project to take stock of what we know about Canada’s oceans, construct possible scenarios for coastal regions, and create a national dialogue and vision. Three themes emerge from this impressive synthesis of social, cultural, economic, and environmental research: ocean change, access to ocean resources, and ocean governance. Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars and practitioners focus on finding solutions to rapid environmental and social transformation, outlining the implications for legislation and offering policy recommendations. Increasingly, civil society will have to advocate for oceans, and Sea Change will empower the voices of those who take up that task.

Energy Fact Book

Energy Fact Book
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 364
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105211338129
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Energy Fact Book by :

Too Few to Matter

Too Few to Matter
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Publisher : Presses de l'Université Laval
Total Pages : 194
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ISBN-10 : 9782766300921
ISBN-13 : 2766300929
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Too Few to Matter by : Joane Martel

By focusing on the incarceration of women in Canada and Québec, this book reveals that imprisonment, as a penal device, is surprisingly tenacious.

Local Content Requirements

Local Content Requirements
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 244
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ISBN-10 : 9781003806936
ISBN-13 : 1003806937
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Local Content Requirements by : Lili Yan Ing

As anti-globalization and geopolitical tensions continue to rise, the use of local content requirements (LCRs) around the world has become more noticeable than ever before. The reasons for adopting LCRs range from ensuring domestic supply availability, job creation, and increasing value added to safeguarding national security. Ing and Grossman examine country-specific as well as firm-product level exercises to explain how LCRs reduce fair competition, resulting in lower trade and productivity, which ultimately lowers world economic output and overall human welfare. Countries around the world are investigated with specific attention to the US, China, Indonesia, and resource-intensive countries, including mining-intensive ones. The book also presents product- and firm-level analyses, answering the question of why countries adopted LCRs and how LCRs actually affect the world economy. This book is a useful resource that will interest policymakers, researchers, and advanced undergraduates interested in international trade, industrial policy, political economy, labour economics, and development economics.

Solidarity Beyond Bars

Solidarity Beyond Bars
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Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Total Pages : 232
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ISBN-10 : 9781773635811
ISBN-13 : 1773635816
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Solidarity Beyond Bars by : Jordan House

Prisons don’t work, but prisoners do. Prisons are often critiqued as unjust, but we hear little about the daily labour of incarcerated workers — what they do, how they do it, who they do it for and under which conditions. Unions protect workers fighting for better pay and against discrimination and occupational health and safety concerns, but prisoners are denied this protection despite being the lowest paid workers with the least choice in what they do — the most vulnerable among the working class. Starting from the perspective that work during imprisonment is not “rehabilitative,” this book examines the reasons why people should care about prison labour and how prisoners have struggled to organize for labour power in the past. Unionizing incarcerated workers is critical for both the labour movement and struggles for prison justice, this book argues, to negotiate changes to working conditions as well as the power dynamics within prisons themselves.

The Canadian Patent Office Record

The Canadian Patent Office Record
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1226
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ISBN-10 : OSU:32435062828793
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis The Canadian Patent Office Record by : Canada. Patent Office

Baptists in Canada

Baptists in Canada
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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 244
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ISBN-10 : 9781532689314
ISBN-13 : 1532689314
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis Baptists in Canada by : Gordon L. Heath

Baptists arrived in what would become Canada in the mid-eighteenth century, and from those early arrivals Baptists from a wide variety of backgrounds planted churches in every region of the vast nation. This book traces that history of Baptists in Canada, and provides historical antecedents and theological rationales for their church polity. Written in a generous spirit, it recognizes what Baptists share with other Christian communities and how they differ among themselves on some matters. It places Baptists in Canada in the larger historical and global context, and concludes with commentary on opportunities and challenges ahead.

Claiming Back Their Heritage

Claiming Back Their Heritage
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 467
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ISBN-10 : 9783031400636
ISBN-13 : 3031400631
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Claiming Back Their Heritage by : Geneviève Susemihl

This book provides a unique, in-depth look at three Indigenous World Heritage sites in Canada and their use for Indigenous empowerment and community development. Based on extensive ethnographic field studies and comprehensive narrative interviews, it shows how the three First Nation communities presented in the case studies enforce recognition of their collective rights to preserve their cultural heritage and assert their right to political, economic, cultural, and social self-determination. It also considers the prevailing universalistic discourses around World Heritage and the various ways in which they serve to either reinforce existing oppressive conditions regarding Indigenous communities and voices or provide opportunities to overcome them. The book will be of interest to scholars and students working on social and cultural histories, histories of colonialism, and in heritage and museum studies.