Books published by Oxford University Press, Canada

A study of the changing attitudes of Canadians that accompanied the many political, social, and technological changes in the century between the War of 1812-14 and the Great War.

A collection of 23 interviews from "Music" magazine ranging in subject from building a career and performance to sources of inspiration and music education. Interviewees include Elly Ameling, Kyung Wha Chung, Glenn Gould, Wynton Marsalis, Jon Vickers, Yo-Yo Ma and other famous musicians.

Ten interviews from "Canadian Fiction Magazine" in which leading contemporary Canadian novelists talk about their work.

Most of the caring work in our society is done by women. It is often hidden in the roles of mothers, daughters and wives and undervalued outside the home. This feminist perspective on social welfare in Canada reflects the legal, political and policy contexts.

Critically examines the politics of abortion in Canada leading up to and after the historic Morgentaler decision.

This volume provides in-depth case studies of public service labour relations in Canada during the 1990s. The cases reported demonstrate that governments have adopted the attitude and policy that they may engage in bargaining or suspend it whenever thay find that course of action to be convenient.

A comprehensive and authoritative account of the global movement to ban landmines. This text examines and draws lessons from the "Ottawa Process" that culminated in December 1997 when over 120 states signed a convention to ban the use, sale and production of landmines.

This work assumes today's business reality: large firms, often with thousands of employees, facing markets of millions, often in several nations. Each chapter links elements of the core ethic to specific business problems, covering all phases of business.

The author examines the intellectual-political dynamics of major economic policy innovations in Canada, from the triumph of Keynesianism in the 1940s to the resurgence of neo-liberalism in the 1990s. He investigates how governments find new public policy approaches in times of economic pressure.

This collection of essays explores how the lives of men and women are affected by politics. The book adopts no specific ideology, but all authors share the view that Canadian society and political life continue to treat women unfairly.

Examines the great public debate that has occurred in Canada regarding the leadership of the country. The author believes that much of the present controversy stems from a lack of understanding of the role, the responsiblities and the paths of political leaders.

In major Canadian political parties, as in other power structures, women rarely reach the upper echelons. In this study of the partisan experiences of women in English Canada, Sylvia Bashevkin traces the historical background to their political engagement from the early twentieth century. Using data from party records, in-depth interviews and public opinion surveys, she finds that the major parties continue to operate according to a gender-based division of labour. Bashevkin identifies a continuing dilemma for Canadian women, one that pits their commitment to political independence against the realities of a party-centred political system. As successive generations of women's groups have learned, loyalty to party organizations can advance the careers of individual women, but it can also endanger the autonomy of organized feminism. Nevertheless, recent feminist activities-such as the development of affirmative action politics and party women's funds-have helped to reform some aspects of Canadian party life and raise the level of female participation. In analysing the political condition of English Canadian women in a comparative context, Bashevkin makes an important contribution to ongoing debates about feminism and democratic practice.

Discussion of contemporary issues often overlooks the rural component of Canadian society. The sixteen chapters written specifically for Rural Sociology in Canada emphasize the diversity of rural Canada and its farming, fishing, and northern resource communities-in conjunction with such issues as the impact of modern technologies on rural industries, populations, and communities, the environmental crisis in relation to agriculture practices and technologies, and the impact of the Free Trade Agreement on rural industries. The book is oriented to undergraduate and graduate students studying rural sociology, as well as appealing to a wider audience interested in rural life in Canada today.

An analysis of Pan-Canadian nationalism on a political level.

This collection of documents gives a picture of the life of the workingman in the nineteenth century-his conditions of work, his housing, diet, health, and recreations, the way he viewed his problems (and was viewed as a problem by the upper classes), and his gradually developing interest in unionism. The sources are mostly contemporary accounts drawn from books, newspapers, and evidence supplied to the Royal Commission on the Relations of Labour and Capital. The documents are lively, often amusing, always very revealing of the life of the ordinary people.

When the HIV/AIDS epidemic struck Canada over 15 years ago, few people understood what it meant or would mean. Legal, ethical, and policy issues in public health, drug use, homosexuality, sex education, confidentiality, discrimination, health, and social security came under intense scrutiny and were often found wanting. A great deal of fear and confusion existed-fear of contagion, confusion about transmission and the natural course of the disease.From the beginning, social workers in Canada have been at the forefront in seeking to cope with the multiple effects of the HIV epidemic, working in the areas of prevention, care, and health policy to solve or ameliorate the many small and large problems caused by HIV for infected individuals and affected communities. Social Work and HIV: The Canadian Experience brings together essays by front-line workers and researchers from across the country, who describe their own successes and failures in dealing with the effects of HIV: in rural communities; among urban Aboriginal street youth; upon haemophiliacs; among the gay male community; upon women; among injection drug users; and among families with children.

This volume contains much of the best research on Canadian Jewish society, politics and history, written by leading scholars in the area.

MacDonald (1815-1891) was Canada's first Prime Minister and did much to shape Canadian politics. This anecotal biography brings vividly to life a complex personality and a great wit.

The women's liberation movement is one of the most successful social movements of the twentieth century. Most writing about it, however, has focused on the issues it has addressed rather than the practices, ideology, organizations, and strategies of the movement itself. Feminist Organizing For Change fills this gap by documenting and analyzing the struggle of the contemporary Canadian women's movement to make change. Beginning with a detailed history of the 'second wave' (post 1960), it makes a primary distinction between grass-roots and institutionalized feminism, and by emphasizing the former reveals a part of feminist organizing that has most often been invisible. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography and a selection of previously unpublished documents on the Canadian women's movement.

The essays in this volume, which explore the Canadian condition at the beginning of the eighties, deal with fundamental issues of concern to all thoughtful Canadians. The eight essayists are distinguished historians and political scientists: Louis Balthazar, Michael Bliss, Robert Craig Brown, Ramsay Cook, J.R. Mallory, H.V. Nelles, Donald Smiley, and Denis Smith. In addressing four basic themes-the nation and nationality, Quebec and the referendum, the economy and the state, and Parliament and politicians-they suggest new answers to those perennial Canadian questions: Who are we? What are we doing together? How shall we go about our common business? As the editors observe in their introduction: '...such matters as the identity, purpose, and functioning of a nation are the great issues of modern society, and each community and each age must resolve them anew. That task has fallen to Canadians at the dawn of the 1980s, and to the ongoing deliberations all the writers in this volume have made a contribution.'

This personal memoir details two years in the lives of a mother and daughter struggling to cope with leukaemia from early symptoms through diagnosis and treatment to a clean bill of health. Juanne Nancarrow Clarke, a medical sociologist, provides an informed perspective on the needs of patients and their families.

Before he died in February 1991 Eugene Forsey had the pleasure of reading these tributes to his autobiography, A Life on the fringe, and of seeing it nominated for a Governor General's Award and become a bestseller. Dr. Forsey writes warmly of his association and friendship with a host of people-including Stephen Leacock, Donald Creighton, Arthur Meighen, John Diefenbaker, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, M.J. Coldwell, Stanley Knowles, F.R. Scott, King Gordon, and Carl Goldenberg-many of whom are discussed in the chapter entitled 'Of Politics and Politicians'. A Life on the Fringe is an informative, often humorous, storyladen account of a life of distinguished service that covers most of this century.

This text is based on the assumption that nothing is inherently deviant, but that what is regarded as deviant is the result of socio-historical context. It focuses on five social categories in which it discusses how definitions of unconventionality are formed and how they influence control.

This is a study of the history and current state of the aboriginal politics in Canada, comparing them with aboriginal politics in New Zealand and the USA.

This volume is the culmination of an objective study of the attack on the Alberta deficit launched by Premier Ralph Klein's government in 1993. The book answers the question, "how was the goal achieved so quickly?" and examines Klein's cost cutting strategies and theories of government.

This work considers the question of Quebec's role and place in Canada, an issue that has been long ignored. It considers these and other questions in the light of Canada's constitutional past and its political present.

This book explores the difficult challenges that face any government as it determines when to treat dissent as legitimate political behaviour and when as an illegimitate threat to individuals and society.