Until the Revolution
Essays on Labour, Democracy, and Public Policy
by John Anderson

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This book collects nearly forty years of articles, papers, and newspaper op-eds dealing with some of the most important issues that have affected Canada over the last four decades. The core topics include how to regulate the digital economy, how to overcome inequality, how to build a social economy, and how unions should respond to the ever-changing workplace. Drawing from a career spanning academia, politics, trade unions, and public policy, as well as his tenure as policy director for the federal NDP during its time as the official opposition, the author offers a unique and informed perspective on the policies that have defined modern Canada. For policymakers, activists, and anyone interested in the forces shaping Canada’s future, this book is an essential guide to the conversations that have mattered and those that will continue to shape the country in the decades to come.

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Educated at McGill University, University of Sussex and the London School of Economics, John Anderson has held a variety of notable positions over the years. These include director of parliamentary affairs and special advisor on economic and fiscal affairs to the federal NDP party, director of government affairs and public policy for the Canadian Co-operative Association, vice president of strategic partnerships and vice president of research for the Canadian Council on Social Development, and senior policy analyst for the National Council of Welfare. Co-ordinator of the Ontario Federation of Labour’s Technology Adjustment Research Program, and now Senior Researcher for the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada John has also taught at several universities in Canada, including McMaster, Western, Brock, and York. He is a founding member of Rabble and Make Poverty History. In addition to the pieces collected in this book, John’s other publications include Why Canada Needs Postal Banking (Friesen Press 2023) and Re-Shaping Work Vol. 1 & 2 (University of Toronto Press, 1996, 1999, co-edited with Chris Schenk). John can be contacted through his website, www.andersonconsulting.ca. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario.

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