Speakers
Speakers / Panelists
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Organizing Efforts/Effects
October 23, 2022 from 9:30am EDT to 11:00am EDT -
Concert, Jon Bartlett and Rika Ruebsaat Labour Songs of British Columbia
October 21, 2022 from 8:00pm EDT to 10:00pm EDT -
Deindustrialization and the Working-Class Politics of Our Times
October 22, 2022 from 9:30am EDT to 10:00am EDT -
Roundtable: Creating Space for Utopian Thinking
October 23, 2022 from 1:45pm EDT to 3:15pm EDT -
Labouring Culture
October 22, 2022 from 4:15pm EDT to 5:45pm EDT -
Organizing Efforts/Effects
October 23, 2022 from 9:30am EDT to 11:00am EDT -
Colonialism, Racism, and Labour
October 22, 2022 from 2:30pm EDT to 3:45pm EDT -
Indigenous Labour in British Columbia
October 22, 2022 from 10:45am EDT to 12:00pm EDT -
Organizing Efforts/Effects
October 23, 2022 from 9:30am EDT to 11:00am EDT -
Deindustrialization and the Working-Class Politics of Our Times
October 22, 2022 from 9:30am EDT to 10:00am EDT -
Immigration, Ethnicity and Labour
October 22, 2022 from 10:45am EDT to 12:00pm EDT -
Militants/Military
October 22, 2022 from 2:30pm EDT to 3:45pm EDT -
Roundtable: Creating Space for Utopian Thinking
October 23, 2022 from 1:45pm EDT to 3:15pm EDT -
Plenary Session - Labour History and Critical Theory I: Capitalism and Colonialism
October 22, 2022 from 1:00pm EDT to 2:30pm EDT -
Wages for Housework politics and local organizing in three Canadian cities, 1960s-1980s (Room: Y 224)
October 23, 2022 from 9:30am EDT to 11:00am EDT -
Indigenous Labour in British Columbia
October 22, 2022 from 10:45am EDT to 12:00pm EDT -
Immigration, Ethnicity and Labour
October 22, 2022 from 10:45am EDT to 12:00pm EDT -
Deindustrialization and the Working-Class Politics of Our Times
October 22, 2022 from 9:30am EDT to 10:00am EDT -
Politics, the State, Workers, and Unions
October 22, 2022 from 2:30pm EDT to 3:45pm EDT -
Labour History and Critical Theory II: Social Reproduction
October 23, 2022 from 11:15am EDT to 12:45pm EDT -
Deindustrialization and the Working-Class Politics of Our Times
October 22, 2022 from 9:30am EDT to 10:00am EDT -
Wages for Housework politics and local organizing in three Canadian cities, 1960s-1980s (Room: Y 224)
October 23, 2022 from 9:30am EDT to 11:00am EDT -
Politics, the State, Workers, and Unions
October 22, 2022 from 2:30pm EDT to 3:45pm EDT -
Colonialism, Racism, and Labour
October 22, 2022 from 2:30pm EDT to 3:45pm EDT -
Plenary Session - Labour History and Critical Theory I: Capitalism and Colonialism
October 22, 2022 from 1:00pm EDT to 2:30pm EDT -
Roundtable: Creating Space for Utopian Thinking
October 23, 2022 from 1:45pm EDT to 3:15pm EDT -
Organizing Working Women: Labour Feminism in the 1970s and 1980s
October 22, 2022 from 10:45am EDT to 12:00pm EDT -
Roundtable: Creating Space for Utopian Thinking
October 23, 2022 from 1:45pm EDT to 3:15pm EDT -
Organizing Working Women: Labour Feminism in the 1970s and 1980s
October 22, 2022 from 10:45am EDT to 12:00pm EDT -
Labouring Culture
October 22, 2022 from 4:15pm EDT to 5:45pm EDT -
Militants/Military
October 22, 2022 from 2:30pm EDT to 3:45pm EDT
Benjamin Anderson
Benjamin Anderson
Benjamin Anderson
Benjamin Anderson is a PhD Candidate in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University (SFU) where he studies craft labour and worker organizing in creative industries. Specifically, his work interrogates the class dimensions of the recent uptick in interest in artisanry and making, particularly in the global north, and the potential for organizing in so-called craft industries. In addition to his studies, he teaches course in SFU's Labour Studies Program and in Communication. His work has appeared in Labour/Le Travail, TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Unmediated: Journal of Politics and Communication, and elsewhere.
Jon Bartlett and Rika Ruebsaat
Jon Bartlett and Rika Ruebsaat
Jon Bartlett and Rika Ruebsaat
Jon Bartlett and Rika Ruebsaat, Independent Scholars, both retired teachers, have been active in the collecting, analysis, publication and performance of vernacular song, particularly that of the BC-based industries of logging, fishing and mining, for the past 45 years. They are both life members of the Vancouver Folk Song Society, and have both been Presidents of the Canadian Society for Traditional Music. They have sung in schools and universities across North America, Their interest in vernacular song led them to research settler songs from the Similkameen valley, where they live, to found and organize a traditional music festival in Princeton, and to publish two books and seven CDs dealing with the relationship between the history and the songs.
Fred Burrill
Fred Burrill
Fred Burrill
Fred Burrill is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Cape Breton University, working on deindustrialization and settler working-class identity formation on the resource frontier of 32 rural Nova Scotia. His recently completed PhD dissertation focused on oral histories of working class resistance to deindustrialization and gentrification in the Southwest of Montreal, where he spent many years as a tenant organizer. He is a core affiliate of Concordia University’s Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling.
Joseph Burton
Joseph Burton
Joseph Burton
Joseph Burton is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Simon Fraser University. His research explores the transmission of anarchist ideas in North America during the middle and latter twentieth century, focusing on the Industrial Workers of the World and linkages between democracy and revolutionary practice. Recent publications and activity include: “Anarchy in the Classroom: Frederick Thompson and a Revolutionary Pedagogy at the Work People’s College,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the History of Education Society, November 3-7, 2021 and Review of Left Transnationalism: The Communist International and the National, Colonial, and Racial Questions, edited by Oleksa Drachewych and Ian McKay and: Not for King or Country: Edward Cecil-Smith, the Communist Party of Canada, and the Spanish Civil War by Tyler Wentzell Canadian Historical Review 102 (1), 181-185 (March 2021). Beyond the academy, Joseph has collaborated with the public history group, Defining Moments Canada, to assist in the planning of a commemorative project on the Nine Hour Movement.
Piyusha Chatterjee
Piyusha Chatterjee
Piyusha Chatterjee
Piyusha Chatterjee, is a PhD candidate in an interdisciplinary program at Concordia University, Tio'tia:ke/Montreal, and a settler/immigrant in Canada. My research revolves around labour in the cultural economy, 33 oral history and urban space. Titled “We were always here”: The labour of busking and its disappearing spaces in Montreal, my doctoral dissertation explores the place of the busker (street musicians and performers) in the political economy of the contemporary city and examines a streetside view of Montreal’s cultural economy from their vantage point. Previous to starting my PhD, I worked in India in the fields of oral history and journalism.
Manuel Salamanca Cardona
Manuel Salamanca Cardona
Manuel Salamanca Cardona
Manuel Salamanca Cardona est sociologue, chercheur à l’Institut SHERPA du CIUSSS du Centre-Ouest-de-l’Île-deMontréal et du GIREPS (Groupe interuniversitaire et interdisciplinaire de recherche sur l’emploi, la pauvreté et la protection sociale). Il travaille sur les questions de la migration, du droit du travail, d’éducation populaire et de production de connaissances dans les mouvements pour la justice migratoire. Il mène actuellement des recherches sur les relations entre les syndicats et les organisations d’immigrants au Québec grâce à une bourse postdoctorale du FRQSC. Il est militant et membre du conseil d’administration du Centre des travailleurs immigrants de Montréal (CTI) depuis 2013. Quelques publications sont « Les agences de placement à Montréal et le travail immigrant : une composante du racisme systémique au Québec ? » (2018) et « Centres de travailleurs et syndicats. Le rôle de l’éducation populaire dans l’organisation des travailleurs immigrants d’agence de placement» (2019).
Peter Campbell
Peter Campbell
Peter Campbell
Peter Campbell is retired from the history department at Queen’s University. He is in the process of writing a series of three articles on 17 th century New France that focus on Algonquian women, the hidden history of the Algonquins of the Ottawa Valley, and the way in which our concern with 34 “race” disguises the greater importance of the IndigenousEuropean encounter as a clash of belief systems.
Sean Carleton
Sean Carleton
Sean Carleton
Sean Carleton is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of History and Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of Lessons of Legitimacy: Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Rise of State Schooling in British Columbia (UBC, 2022).
Glen Coulthard
Glen Coulthard
Glen Coulthard
Glen Coulthard is Yellowknives Dene and an associate professor in the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program and the Departments of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014), winner of the 2016 Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding Book, the Canadian Political Science Association’s CB Macpherson Award for Best Book in Political Theory, published in English or French, in 2014/2015, and the Rik Davidson Studies in Political Economy Award for Best Book in 2016. He is also a co-founder of Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning, a decolonial, Indigenous land-based post-secondary program operating on his traditional territories in Denendeh(Northwest Territories).
Anupam Das
Anupam Das
Anupam Das
Anupam Das is Professor of Economics at Mount Royal University. His major areas of research include social welfare, unionization, environmental sustainability and macroeconomic dynamics. He is one of the co-investigators of the SSHRC-funded project “Community-Driven Solutions to Poverty: Challenges and Possibilities”. Some of his most recent studies were published in Environmental Science and Pollution Research, International Migration, Applied Economics Letters, Review of Social Economy, and Studies in Political Economy.
Petra Dolata
Petra Dolata
Petra Dolata
Petra Dolata is Associate Professor and former Canada Research Chair in the History of Energy at the University of Calgary. She is the Scholar in Residence at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities (2018-2023), where she coconvenes the Energy In Society working group. As part of the SSHRC-funded Partnership project Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time, she studies the relationship between deindustrialization and energy transitions. Dr. Dolata has published on the history of energy, Canada’s natural resources, foreign and Arctic policies, and the concept of energy security. She is the author of Die deutsche Kohlenkrise im nationalen und transatlantischen 35 Kontext (The national and transatlantic dimensions of the German coal crisis), a study on US-German (energy and labour) relations in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Nicholas Fast
Nicholas Fast
Nicholas Fast
Nicholas Fast is a fourth year PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto’s Department of History where he is currently writing a comparative, transnational study on the meatpacking industries of Winnipeg and Chicago. He has previously written on technological change in the meatpacking industry in the 1960s, the Canadian Farmworkers Union in British Columbia during the late1970s and early 1980s, and co-edited a brief blog series on Neoliberalism in Canada. Currently a member of CAWLS and the CHA, Nicholas is also extremely active in promoting graduate student causes within the Canadian Historical Association.
Mason Godden
Mason Godden
Mason Godden
Mason Godden is a PhD Candidate in the School of Labour Studies at McMaster University. Mason’s research focuses on Canadian labour history post-1945, with an emphasis on worker organizing and strikes in the private sector, and more broadly, organized labour’s relationship with the Canadian women’s movement and the Canadian left. His dissertation will examine left-nationalism in the Canadian labour movement during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s by focusing on the history of the Confederation of Canadian Unions (CCU).
John-Henry Harter
John-Henry Harter
John-Henry Harter
John-Henry Harter is a Lecturer in Labour Studies at SFU. His research and teaching focus on both environmental and labour history but combines multiple disciplines, including history, sociology, political economy, and cultural studies. He has published in academic journals such as Labour/Le 36 Travail academic online magazines The Otter and Active History and popular left magazines such as Canadian Dimension, Briar patch, and The New Twenties.
Hagwil Hayetsk
Hagwil Hayetsk
Hagwil Hayetsk
Hagwil Hayetsk’s (Charles Menzies) primary research interests are the production of anthropological films, natural resource management (primarily fisheries related), political economy, contemporary First Nations’ issues, maritime anthropology and the archaeology of north coast BC. He has conducted field research in, and has produced films concerning, north coastal BC, Canada (including archaeological research); Brittany, France; and Donegal, Ireland. hagwil hayetsk is a member of Gitxaała Nation on BC’s north coast and an enrolled member of the Tlingit and Haida Tribes of Alaska.
Christine Hughes
Christine Hughes
Christine Hughes
Christine Hughes is pursuing an MA in History at the University of Victoria after earning a BA from Dalhousie University & University of King’s College in 2020 (Honours History),
Benjamin Isitt
Benjamin Isitt
Benjamin Isitt
Benjamin Isitt is a historian and legal scholar based in Lekwungen territory (Victoria, BC, Canada), with research and teaching interests focused on the relationship between social movements and states in the modern world, with particular attention to class, ecology, and decolonization in Canadian, trans-Pacific, and global contexts.
Isitt is currently enrolled as an articled student with the Law Society of British Columbia. He has previously taught history, international relations, and labour studies at the University of British Columbia, University of Victoria, and other institutions.
Isitt is the author of several books that challenge how we think about Canadian and global society and the process of 37 social change, including From Victoria to Vladivostok (UBC Press, 2010), Militant Minority (University of Toronto Press, 2011), and Able to Lead (UBC Press, 2021, with Ravi Malhotra).
Alongside his academic work, Isitt serves the public as a city councillor in Victoria.
Gregory Kealey
Gregory Kealey
Gregory Kealey
Gregory Kealey, CM, FRSC is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of New Brunswick. He was the Founding Editor of Labour/le Travail and served in that role from 1976-97. He remains active on its Advisory Board and as Treasurer of the Canadian Committee on Labour History. He is the author of Spying on Canadians (2017), Workers in Canadian History (1996), Toronto Workers Respond to Industrial Capitalism (1980), and co-author of Secret Service: Political Policing in Canada (2012) and Dreaming of What Might Be: The Knights of Labor in Ontario. He edits the Canadian Social History Series for the University of Toronto Press and co-edits the Working Canadians Series for Athabasca University Press
Linda Kealey
Linda Kealey
Linda Kealey
Linda Kealey is Professor Emerita at the University of New Brunswick. Her work has focused on Canadian women’s and gender history and the history of healthcare. Her original interest in the history of women’s work drew her to study women in left-wing politics (Enlisting Women for the Cause: Women, Labour and the Left in Canada, 1890-1920). Interest in health history led to research on Newfoundland’s healthcare system in the SSHRCC/NSERC funded project, “Coasts Under Stress.” More recently she researched the history of NB nurses and their union with the SSHRCC funded “Re-Connecting with the History of Labour in New Brunswick.” Her most recent publication reflecting on trends in Canadian women’s and gender history, “North 38 America North of the 49th Parallel,” appears in A Companion to Global Gender History, (2nd ed. 2021)
Dr. Elizabeth Kirkland
Dr. Elizabeth Kirkland
Dr. Elizabeth Kirkland
Dr. Elizabeth Kirkland (PhD McGill, 2012) is a faculty member in the Department of History and Classics at Dawson College. Her research interests focus on the history of women and gender particularly within Montreal. She has published in Histoire Sociale/Social History, the Urban History Review, and the Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Her current research energies are divided between two different projects. The first of these looks at the experiences of young women and girls who migrated to Montreal to work as domestic workers from 1820-1920. The second project explores the tragedy of young death in turn-of-thetwentieth-century Montreal: infant mortality, childhood accidents, juvenile illness and disease, suicide, and the clustering of deaths during the First World War.
Lauren Laframboise
Lauren Laframboise
Lauren Laframboise
Lauren Laframboise, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University, is the Associate Director of the Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time SSHRC Partnership project based at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. She completed her MA in 2021 in the Department of History at Concordia University. Her thesis project, titled “Gendered labour, immigration, and deindustrialization in Montreal’s garment industry,” mobilized oral history interviews with former garment workers, rank and file organizers, and union officials to show that deindustrialization is a profoundly gendered process, and that its effects are felt at the intersection of existing marginalities. More broadly, her research interests are in the histories of labour and social reproduction, 39 immigration, and resistance in traditionally gendered industrial work. Lauren has also worked on a number of public history projects at the Museum of Jewish Montreal, the Curating and Public Scholarship Lab, and the Living Archives Vivantes online oral history platform.
Mark Leier
Mark Leier
Mark Leier
Mark Leier is in the History Department at Simon Fraser University. His research is on anarchism, Wobblies, and labour.
Roberta Lexier
Roberta Lexier
Roberta Lexier
Roberta Lexier is an associate professor in the departments of General Education and Humanities at Mount Royal University. Her teaching and research interests centre around social movements and left politics in Canada, including the history of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the New Democratic Party (NDP). She has published in academic and popular formats, including Jacobin and The Conversation, and is a regular contributor to the Alberta Advantage Podcast and the Forgotten Corner Podcast.
Margaret Hillyard Little
Margaret Hillyard Little
Margaret Hillyard Little
Margaret Hillyard Little, Full Professor, Department of Gender Studies and Political Studies, Queen's University, is the author of If I Had a Hammer: Women’s Retraining that really Works, (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004), and No Car, No Radio, No Liquor Permit: The Moral Regulation of Single Mothers in Ontario, 1920-1996, (Toronto: University of Oxford Press, 1998) which won the Floyd S. Chalmers Book Award. She is the principal investigator on the SSHRC Insight Grant funded project, “Alternative visions: the politics of motherhood and family among Indigenous, immigrant, racialized and low-income activist women’s groups in Canada, 1960s-1980s.”
Meg Luxton
Meg Luxton
Meg Luxton
Meg Luxton is a professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at York University. Her research has contributed to theorizing feminist political economy, social 40 reproduction and how to conceptualize the relations among gender, class, racialization, ethnicity and other systemic inequalities. Exploring both historical and contemporary divisions of labour and their implications for the socioeconomic situations of people across class, race/ethnicity and region, her research examines how "ordinary people" in Canada have sustained themselves, their households, families and communities. Her many articles have exposed the work involved in unpaid domestic labour and shown its relationship to the larger economy. Her articles and edited books have also examined the history of Canadian feminism. Her authored and co-authored/co-edited books include More Than a Labour of Love, Getting By At Home and On The Job and Social Reproduction: Feminist Political Economy Challenges Neo-liberalism.
Lachlan MacKinnon
Lachlan MacKinnon
Lachlan MacKinnon
Lachlan MacKinnon, Associate Professor of History and Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Post-industrial Communities at Cape Breton University. His recent book, Closing Sysco, explores the history of nationalization, public ownership, and workers’ experiences ofdeindustrialization at Sydney Steel in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Other research interests include the political economy of regional development in Atlantic Canada, working-class experiences of industrial closure, and trans-national environmental responses to toxic landscapes.
Lynne Marks
Lynne Marks
Lynne Marks
Lynne Marks, Professor, History, University of Victoria, 2017 has won awards including the Canadian Historical Association Clio Award for the best book published in BC History, 2017 for Infidels and The Damn Churches: Irreligion and Religion in Settler British Columbia (UBC Press, 2017) 41 and the Floyd S. Chalmers Award for best book published in Ontario History,1996 for Revivals and Rollers Rinks: Religion, Leisure and Identity in Late Nineteenth Century Small Town Ontario (University of Toronto Press, 1996). She is co-editor of Visions: The Canadian History Modules Project (Nelson Education Ltd., 2010, second edition, 2015).
Benoit Marsan
Benoit Marsan
Benoit Marsan
Benoit Marsan, Université McGill, est stagiaire postdoctoral du Fonds de recherche société et culture Québec (FQRSC) au département de sociologie de l’Université McGill. Il est également chargé de cours au département de relations industrielles de l’Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), où j’enseigne l’histoire du travail depuis 2015. Il détiens un doctorat en histoire, complété en 2021 à l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Au cours des 20 dernières années, il a travaillé et milité au sein d’organisations québécoises de défense des droits des chômeurs et des chômeuses. Ses intérêts de recherche sont l’histoire ouvrière et du travail au Québec et au Canada, et plus particulièrement celle du chômage, des politiques sociales, des mouvements sociaux et des relations de travail. Il est l’auteur du livre « Battezvous, ne vous laissez pas affamer » : les communistes et la lutte des sans-emploi pendant la Grande Dépression, publié en 2014 chez M éditeur.
Gabrielle McLaren
Gabrielle McLaren
Gabrielle McLaren
Gabrielle McLaren is a second-year MA student at Concordia University’s Department of History and the current General Coordinator for the Graduate History Student Association (GHSA). Their thesis, tentatively titled “‘Not so very fine and healthy, as has been reported’: Settlers, Malaria, and Improvement Along the Rideau Canal (1826-1832),” explores how experiences of disease during 42 the Rideau Canal’s construction affected British settlement and environmental understandings of Upper Canada. An early version of this presentation was published in the Network in Canadian History and Environment’s “Parks Not Profit” series in summer 2021. McLaren holds a BA with distinction, honours in history and minor in world literature, from Simon Fraser University (2020), and wrote an honours thesis that dealt with working-class people’s experiences during Montreal’s 1885 smallpox epidemic.
Silke Neunsinger
Silke Neunsinger
Silke Neunsinger
Silke Neunsinger Arbetarrörelsens arkiv och bibliotek, Sweden.
Bryan D. Palmer
Bryan D. Palmer
Bryan D. Palmer
Bryan D. Palmer, Emeritus Professor, Trent University, is the author of numerous works on labour and the left, including the award-winning monographs, James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928 and Toronto's Poor: A Rebellious History (coauthored with Gaetan Heroux). HIs most recent publication is James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-1938. Formerly the editor of Labour/Le Travail, he contributes regularly to publications such as the Socialist Register,Jacobin, Catalyst, and Canadian Dimension.
Karissa Robyn Patton
Karissa Robyn Patton
Karissa Robyn Patton
Karissa Robyn Patton, CRC Postdoctoral Fellowship, Vancouver Island University, History, completed a Ph.D. in History, at the University of Saskatchewan with a dissertation entitled “Con(tra)cepts of Care: Southern Alberta Birth Control Centres & Reproductive Healthcare, 1968-1979.” Publications include (with Leon Crane Bear, Larry Hannant), edited Bucking Conservatism: Alternative Stories of Alberta from the 1960s and 1970s. (Edmonton: Athabasca University Press, 2021); (with Emily Kaliel) “Building Community and Transforming Knowledge: Histories of Women’s Health Practitioners and Community-Based Health Services in Twentieth Century Alberta, Canada” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, vol. 37 no. 2 (Fall 2020); (with Erika Dyck) “Activists in the Bible Belt: Conservatism, Religion, and Recognizing Reproductive Rights in 1970s Southern Alberta.” In Called to Action: Histories of Women’s Activisms in Western Canada edited by Sarah Carter and Nancy Langford. University of Manitoba Press, 2020.
Camille Robert
Camille Robert
Camille Robert
Camille Robert, doctorante et chargée de cours en histoire, UQAM, est responsable des comptes rendus en français, Labour / Le Travail et aussi est l’agente de relations de travail, SPPEUQAM.
Andrea Samoil
Andrea Samoil
Andrea Samoil
Andrea Samoil is a PhD stuent at SFU working on the working-class response to neoliberalism in Alberta in the 1980s and 1990s. Her roundtable presentation from the last 43 CCLH conference appeared in Labour/Le Travail Fall 2019 as part of “Contemporary Challenges: Teaching Labour History,” and she has written a brief history of the Gainers strike for the Alberta Labour History Institute, “Alberta Workers Rise Up: The 1986 Gainers Strike.”
Joan Sangster
Joan Sangster
Joan Sangster
Joan Sangster is a Professor Emeritus at Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario. She has written nine monographs and many book chapters and articles in interdisciplinary and disciplinary venues dealing with working women, the labour movement, the history of the Left, the criminalization of women and girls, women and the law, and feminist historiography. Her most recent book is Demanding Equality: One Hundred Years of Canadian Feminism, published by UBC Press in 2021.
Ingo Schmidt
Ingo Schmidt
Ingo Schmidt
Ingo Schmidt teaches Labour Studies at Athabasca University. Recent books include Reading 'Capital' Today: Marx After 150 Years (with Carlo Fanelli) and The Three Worlds of Social Democracy: A Global View.
Jim Selby
Jim Selby
Jim Selby
Jim Selby retired as a research officer with the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) November 2020. Prior to that, he was research and communications director for the Alberta Federation of Labour for 24 years. He is a past board member and continuing supporter of the Alberta Labour History Institute.
Julia Smith
Julia Smith
Julia Smith
Julia Smith is an assistant professor in the Labour Studies Program at the University of Manitoba. She studies the political economy of labour relations in Canada and the history and politics of women’s labour activism. Julia has published articles on feminist union organizing and labour relations in the airline and banking industries. She is also a member of the Graphic History Collective and a co-author of 1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike and Direct Action Gets the Goods: A Graphic History of the Strike in Canada.
Valerie Uher
Valerie Uher
Valerie Uher
Valerie Uher, B.A. (Toronto), M.A. (X University), is a doctoral candidate at the University of Waterloo in the department of English Language and Literature. Valerie’s SSHRC supported research explores representations of precarious work, labour unrest and racialized migrant labour in Canadian literature. Her research interests include critical theory, political economy, and labour studies. Valerie is a co-editor of The Johns Hopkins Guide to Critical and Cultural Theory and her work has been published in ESC: English Studies in Canada and The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism.
Morghan Watson
Morghan Watson
Morghan Watson
Morghan Watson is pursuing an MA in History at the University of Victoria after earning a BA in Women’s Studies and History, with distinction at the University of Victoria in 2018.
Tyler Wentzell
Tyler Wentzell
Tyler Wentzell
Tyler Wentzell is an SJD candidate (PhD in law) at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. His dissertation focuses on the Canadian rule of law project, specifically on how the military was gradually removed from internal security tasks and transferred to police. His first book, Not for King or Country: Edward Cecil-Smith, the Communist Party of Canada, and the Spanish Civil War was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2020. His next book is about the League for a Revolutionary Workers’ Party – a little known Trotskyist group that organized cobblers, garment workers, and miners in London, Toronto, Montreal, and New York – and is currently in peer-review. He has published his work in Labour/Le Travail, Ontario History, and Criminal Law Quarterly.