Background
Jamie Swift was born in 1951, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Jamie Swift
845 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montréal, QC H3A 0G4, Canada
Swift attended McGill University, where in 1968, he received a degree in African Studies.
Jamie Swift
Jamie Swift
845 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montréal, QC H3A 0G4, Canada
Swift attended McGill University, where in 1968, he received a degree in African Studies.
https://www.amazon.com/big-nickel-Inco-home-abroad/dp/0919946062/?tag=2022091-20
1977
(Swift traces the history of forest abuse and misuse, and ...)
Swift traces the history of forest abuse and misuse, and looks at the much-touted contemporary commitment to forest renewal. He makes a convincing case for a new way of treating the forest, revealing its vast potential.
https://www.amazon.com/Cut-Run-Assault-Canadas-resources/dp/0919946305/?tag=2022091-20
1983
(Getting Started begins with a morning cup of coffee and v...)
Getting Started begins with a morning cup of coffee and visits the supermarket and the drive-through, the family room and the Internet. Along the way it unpacks a wide range of contemporary social issues. Countering information overload and overwhelming problems, the social analysis approach builds insight and confidence. In a world where individual solutions are increasingly commonplace, Getting Started promotes collective action and social justice. Preserving its unique approach to social literacy, this completely revised and updated edition offers a wealth of new statistics, examples, and resources. Chapters on globalization, work, and new technology address momentous changes of the past decade.
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1984
https://www.amazon.com/Odd-Man-Out-Times-Kierans/dp/0888945590/?tag=2022091-20
1988
(Ten activists, scholars, and writers analyze contemporary...)
Ten activists, scholars, and writers analyze contemporary development issues linking Canada and the Third World, and provide an in-depth critique of Canada's role in perpetuating poverty in the nations of the South. Widely adopted as a course text at the college and university level.
https://www.amazon.com/Conflicts-Interest-Canada-Third-World/dp/0921284411/?tag=2022091-20
1991
(Jamie Swift combines sharp-eyed journalism that brings ou...)
Jamie Swift combines sharp-eyed journalism that brings out the nuances of daily life with a penetrating analysis of jobless recovery. He describes the emerging world of work through the eyes and experiences of people in Kingston and Windsor-two Ontario cities with roots in the pre-industrial past, places poised for the post-industrial information age.
https://www.amazon.com/Wheel-Fortune-Work-Falling-Expectations/dp/0921284888/?tag=2022091-20
1995
(In this concise, critical study of civil society, Jamie S...)
In this concise, critical study of civil society, Jamie Swift sketches the history of the concept from its roots in the eighteenth century, to the present. Swift looks at its practical application in specific cases, such as Canada’s Victorian Order of Nurses, and with community-based groups in South Asia (India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh). He examines the relationship between voluntarism, the state, politics, and the market, and considers the motives and priorities of those using the term today.
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1999
(Hi-tech tactics during a strike at a dockside factory in ...)
Hi-tech tactics during a strike at a dockside factory in Montreal. A workplace cancer tragedy in Sarnia, Ontario. Immigrant workers sticking with their union at the chocolate factory. A struggle for pay equity in the courts and on the streets. A campaign to create jobs by cutting hours of work in B.C. An organizing drive 350 kilometres out into the frigid Atlantic. These are some of the fascinating stories told by Jamie Swift in his chronicle of the first ten eventful years of one of the most dynamic labour unions in North America.
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2003
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2004
(The Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition’s lates...)
The Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition’s latest social audit exposed a tattered social assistance system run by volunteers desperately struggling to fill the gaps. There can be no papering over the savage inequalities and suffering exposed in this compelling look at life from the margins.
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2010
Jamie Swift was born in 1951, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Swift attended McGill University, where in 1968, he received a degree in African Studies.
In 1977, Swift published his first book, The Big Nickel: Inco at home and abroad. During his career, Swift has been published in numerous journals and newspapers, including The Globe and Mail, The Montreal Gazette, The Kingston Whig-Standard, and Briarpatch. In the 1990s, he was a regular contributor to CBC's radio series Ideas.
In 2005, he became a social justice advocate for the Sisters of Providence of St. Vincent de Paul. Since 2006, he has been a lecturer in the Queen’s University School of Business, offering critical perspectives on the world of commerce.
Swift has also co-written a book with noted Canadian historian Ian McKay entitled Warrior Nation: Rebranding Canada in an Age of Anxiety, released in May 2012.
Jamie Swift has been a writer and journalist for more than twenty years. Specializing in in-depth analyses of social, political and economic issues, he is the author of numerous books, including Hydro: The Decline and Fall of Ontario’s Electric Empire, Odd Man Out: The Life and Times of Eric Kierans, and Wheel of Fortune: Work and Life in the Age of Falling Expectations.
The author of a dozen books, Jamie has also been widely published in diverse newspapers and magazines and he has been a long-time contributor to CBC Radio’s Ideas program. He was one of the founders of Between the Lines, a Canadian publisher of books that promote equitable social change.
(Ten activists, scholars, and writers analyze contemporary...)
1991(The Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition’s lates...)
2010(In this concise, critical study of civil society, Jamie S...)
1999(Getting Started begins with a morning cup of coffee and v...)
1984(Jamie Swift combines sharp-eyed journalism that brings ou...)
1995(Swift traces the history of forest abuse and misuse, and ...)
1983(Hi-tech tactics during a strike at a dockside factory in ...)
2003Swift's body of work has focused largely on issues of social justice, economy, environment, globalization, and politics.
