Labour and Working-class History in Atlantic Canada
Labour and Working-class History in Atlantic Canada

Author: Memorial University of Newfoundland. Institute of Social and Economic Research

Publisher: St. John's, Nfld. : Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9780919666788

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This collection of essays provides a generous introduction to the vibrant field of labour and working-class history in Canada's eastern provinces. Organized in four sections covering pre-industrial labour, the industrial revolution, labour's wars of the early twentieth century, and the rise of industrial legality, the book should prove useful in university classrooms and for all readers interested in the history of the region's ordinary people. Concluding chapters address topics of current interest such as public sector unionism, the role of women in the fishery, and the horrors of the Westray mine disaster. The editors provide an introduction, section heads, and suggestions for further reading.The volume is edited by David Frank, Department of History, University of New Brunswick, the former editor of Acadiensis, and Gregory S. Kealey, Department of History, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Dean of Graduate Studies. Authors include T.W. Acheson, Rusty Bittermann, Sean Cadigan, Jessie Chisholm, Patricia M. Connelly, Peter DeLottinville, E.R. Forbes, Eugene Forsey, Harry Glasbeek, Linda Little, Martha MacDonald, Robert McIntosh, Ian McKay, D.A. Muise, Nolan Reilly, Eric W. Sager, Anthony Thomson, and Eric Tucker.

Canadian Working-class History
Canadian Working-class History

Author: Laurel Sefton MacDowell

Publisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 469

ISBN-13: 1551302985

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Canadian Working-Class History: Selected Readings, Third Edition, is an updated version of the bestselling reader that brings together recent and classic scholarship on the history, politics, and social groups of the working class in Canada. Some of the changes readers will find in the new edition include better representation of women scholars and nine provocative and ground-breaking new articles on racism and human rights; women's equality; gender history; Quebec sovereignty; and the environment.

Class, Community and the Labour Movement
Class, Community and the Labour Movement

Author: Committee on Canadian Labour History

Publisher: [St. John's, Nfld.] : LLAFUR/CCLH

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13:

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Papers from a conference of Committee on Canadian Labour History and Llafur, the Society for the Study of Welsh Labour History, held in April 1987 near Newtown in Mid-Wales.

Provincial Solidarities
Provincial Solidarities

Author: David Frank

Publisher: Athabasca University Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1927356237

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Provincial Solidarities tells the story of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour--part of the history of working class struggles in Canada.

Labouring Canada
Labouring Canada

Author: Bryan D. Palmer

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13:

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Labouring Canada: Class, Gender, and Race in Canadian Working-Class History is a collection of 28 classic and contemporary essays exploring the complex interactions of class, gender, and race in the working lives of Canadians from the late eighteenth century to the present. The older classics lay the groundwork for the field of labour history in general, while the more recent contributions focus more specifically on issues of race, class, and gender. The range of topics examined is broad: from class relations in the fur trade, Aboriginal longshoremen in British Columbia, and racial discrimination against CNR porters to the negotiation of class in mid-1800s Nova Scotia, the Montreal teachers' strike of 1949, burlesque workers in 1970s BC, and the nature of the unpaid work performed by women in the home. Designed as a core text for undergraduate courses in labour history, this diverse collection provides an engaging and comprehensive introduction to the field. Readings are organized chronologically and thematically in eleven sections. Each section begins with an introduction that outlines the necessary historical context. Each section introduction includes a list of related resources. All essays have been edited and abridged to make them more accessible to undergraduate readers. Book jacket.

The Making of the English Working Class
The Making of the English Working Class

Author: Edward Palmer Thompson

Publisher: IICA

Published: 1964

Total Pages: 866

ISBN-13:

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This account of artisan and working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, adds an important dimension to our understanding of the nineteenth century. E.P. Thompson shows how the working class took part in its own making and re-creates the whole life experience of people who suffered loss of status and freedom, who underwent degradation and who yet created a culture and political consciousness of great vitality.

Closing Sysco
Closing Sysco

Author: Lachlan MacKinnon

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1487524021

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Personal accounts are at the heart of Closing Sysco, where each story reveals the cultural, political, and historical ramifications of industrial closure in Sydney, Nova Scotia, the former steel city of Atlantic Canada.

Labour at the Lakehead
Labour at the Lakehead

Author: Michel Beaulieu

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2011-05-07

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 0774820039

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In the early twentieth century, politicians singled out the Lakehead as a breeding ground for radical labour politics. Michel S. Beaulieu returns northern Ontario to its rightful place as a birthplace of leftism in Canada by exposing the conditions that gave rise to an array of left-wing organizations. Cultural ties among workers helped bring left-wing ideas to Canada, but ethnicity weakened the left as each group developed a distinctive vocabulary of socialism and as Anglo-Celtic workers defended their privileges against Finns, Ukrainians, and Italians. At the Lakehead, ethnic difference often outweighed class solidarity at the cost of a stronger labour movement for Canada.

Workers and Canadian History
Workers and Canadian History

Author: Gregory S. Kealey

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 0773513523

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This collection of twelve essays by Gregory Kealey, will be of great interest to students and scholars of Canadian history, labour history, Marxist and socialist theory and history, and political science.