Category: Education

Corporations are everywhere. We talk about them: we use expressions like ‘being corporatized’, or ‘the corporate agenda’, or ‘corporate culture’, or ‘the corporate sector’. We know many of their names: Exxon, Bell Canada, Weston, McCain’s, SNC-Lavalin, Bombardier, Rogers, Google. They are everywhere. While they are everywhere, they are invisible; they exist but are not tangible.

The privileges of private property owners Canada is a market capitalist economy. It depends on the creation of wealth by private actors using their private resources, that is, their property (if they have any), and talents. In this way they are to add to their wealth and, in the process,…

We live in a society where we are expected to look after ourselves. For most of us this means we need paid work on a regular basis. When we cannot find it, or it is interrupted because of a dismissal, a firm’s closure, an accident that stops us working or…

We live in a peculiar society. Peculiar here means a chosen way to live that makes little natural sense. We live in a private property society. It is certainly true that any other kind of society would allow its members to have complete control over things that are personal to…