Böcker av Jim Silver

This book integrates a sophisticated analysis of contemporary poverty with a full historical account of capitalism.

Challenging traditional notions of development, the essays in this book examine community economic development strategies in a variety of contexts, for example, as a means of improving lives in northern, rural and inner-city settings.

For a country as wealthy as Canada, poverty is utterly unnecessary. In About Canada: Poverty, Jim Silver illustrates that poverty is about more than a shortage of money: it is complex and multifaceted and can profoundly damage the human spirit. At the centre of this analysis are Canada's neoliberal economic policies, which have created conditions

Historically, prime-time television has devoted at least one-third of its programming to crime. This book is written specifically for the millions of crime junkies who make up the audiences for the variety of crime dramas that blaze across our screens night after night.