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Call for Papers Recording Resistance: Oral History, Politics and Feminism, 1960s-1990s
Do you do research on oral history and women’s organising in Canada? (Le texte français suit l’anglais) We invite proposals for chapters in an edited collection, Recording...
CFP: Why Does Labour Matter? The Past, Present, and Future of Labour and Labour Studies
CFP Why Does Labour Matter? The Past, Present, and Future of Labour and Labour Studies Université du Québec à Montréal, 14-15 November 2025 In 1976 the Canadian Committee on...
NFLY and the Candy Bar Kids: Radical Youth, Popular Protest, and the Red Scare in Postwar Canada
In Labour/Le Travail issue 93, Julie Guard, author of Radical Housewives: Price Wars and Food Politics in Mid-twentieth-century Canada, explores the moment in 1947 when...
Making Space for Creativity: Cultural Initiatives of Sudbury's Mine-Mill Local 598 in the Postwar Era
Labour/Le Travail 's issue 93 features Elizabeth Quinlan's piece "Making Space for Creativity: Cultural Initiatives of Sudbury's Mine-Mill Local 598 in the Postwar Era." This...
The Labour Companion: A bibliorgraphy of printed sources of Canadian Labour History
In 2019, G. Douglas Vaisey completed the second edition of The Labour Companion: A bibliography of printed sources of Canadian Labour History. This extraordinary bibliography...
‘What is Labour’s Stake?’: Workers and the History of Environmentalism in Alberta
The Canadian environmental movement has long included significant engagement from organized labour, Chad Montrie, author of The Myth of Silent Spring: Rethinking the Origins...
NOUVELLES PERSPECTIVES DE RECHERCHE ET DE DIFFUSION EN HISTOIRE DU TRAVAIL, DES MOUVEMENTS SOCIAUX ET DU CAPITALISME / NEW PERSPECTIVES ON RESEARCH AND PRACTICE IN THE HISTORY OF LABOUR, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND CAPITALISM
22 et 23 février 2024 Université du Québec à Montréal 405, rue Sainte-Catherine Est Salle des boiseries (J-2805) Programme/Program JEUDI 22 FÉVRIER / THURSDAY FEBRUARY 22...
'Lawless' Cape Breton Miners and the Lingan strike of 1882-83
Cape Breton Island’s Sydney coalfield had been an arena of intense conflict long before the storied labour wars of the early twentieth century. The Lingan strike of 1882-83...
Unionization and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
For decades, a “jobs versus environment” frame has boxed in conversations about labour and environmental policy. From the battles over owl habitat in the Pacific Northwest...
Maurice Spector’s “Labour and the Law in Canada” (1932)
Maurice Spector helped create the Communist Party of Canada and served on the Executive Committee of the Communist International until he was dismissed on charges of...
Waitresses in Action: Recovering the History of Labour Feminism
Restaurant and food service workers – an estimated 1.3 million in Canada – face an uphill organizing battle. Precarious working conditions and powerful, hostile employers,...
BC’s Forgotten Labour Daily
On May Day, 1901, District Union No. 6 of the Western Federation of Miners, began publishing the Rossland Evening World , an “advocate [of] the cause of organized labor” in...
Organizing Precarious Professionals
An unfortunate reality of our time, precarious employment encompasses a vast array of occupations. Archaeologists working on contracts in Québec are precariously employed,...