https://cclh.ca/newswireenhttps://cclh.ca/newswire/statement-by-the-canadian-committee-on-labour-history-cclh-on-academic-freedom-and-the-unjust-firing-of-professor-thomas-alter-2025-09-27We, the officers and Members of the Executive of the CCLH, condemn the unjust firing of tenured Associate Professor of History Thomas Alter by Texas...Sat, 27 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0400https://cclh.ca/newswire/statement-by-the-canadian-committee-on-labour-history-cclh-on-academic-freedom-and-the-unjust-firing-of-professor-thomas-alter-2025-09-27https://cclh.ca/newswire/cfp-why-does-labour-matter-the-past-present-and-future-of-labour-and-labour-studies-2024-12-27Université du Québec à Montréal, 13-15 November 2025 In 1976 the Canadian Committee on Labour History (CCLH) launched its journal Labour/Le Travail,...Fri, 27 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0500https://cclh.ca/newswire/cfp-why-does-labour-matter-the-past-present-and-future-of-labour-and-labour-studies-2024-12-27https://cclh.ca/newswire/making-space-for-creativity-cultural-initiatives-of-sudburys-mine-mill-local-598-in-the-postwar-era-2024-05-24Labour/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 piece has inspired the journal's cover, which is a reproduction of a lost mural commissioned by the union.  In 1956, Henry Orenstein (1918-2008) painted a 12-metre mural for Sudbury’s Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Local 598 hall, where it was originally installed in the basement beverage room.  Unfortunately the mural was destroyed by fire. The mural image on the cover is reproduced from slides by Ian Hodkinson, of the Art Conservation Program, Queen’s University and with the permission of the artist’s daughter, Sarah Orenstein.  The editors would like to extend special thanks to Rosemary Donegan for her efforts in obtaining high quality digital scans of these slides from her collection.Fri, 24 May 2024 11:34:00 -0400https://cclh.ca/newswire/making-space-for-creativity-cultural-initiatives-of-sudburys-mine-mill-local-598-in-the-postwar-era-2024-05-24https://cclh.ca/newswire/the-labour-companion-a-bibliorgraphy-of-printed-sources-of-canadian-labour-history-2024-05-24In 2019, G. Douglas Vaisey completed the second edition of The Labour Companion: A bibliography of printed sources of Canadian Labour History. This extraordinary bibliography is now available for free download as an e-book at cclh.ca.  Drawing on a wide range of printed sources from the 19th century until the late 1980s, this bibliography should be useful to anyone interested in the history or historiography of Canadian labour and working class history.Fri, 24 May 2024 10:56:00 -0400https://cclh.ca/newswire/the-labour-companion-a-bibliorgraphy-of-printed-sources-of-canadian-labour-history-2024-05-24https://cclh.ca/newswire/program-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-2024-02-06Le programme est téléchargeable ici / Download the program here.Tue, 06 Feb 2024 10:28:00 -0500https://cclh.ca/newswire/program-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-2024-02-06https://cclh.ca/newswire/lawless-cape-breton-miners-and-the-lingan-strike-of-1882-83-2023-08-30Cape Breton Island’s Sydney coalfield had been an arena of intense conflict long before the storied labour wars of the early twentieth century. With the use of untapped local sources, Don Nerbas reconstructs the Lingan strike of 1882-83 in the forthcoming issue of Labour/Le Travail.Wed, 30 Aug 2023 09:39:00 -0400https://cclh.ca/newswire/lawless-cape-breton-miners-and-the-lingan-strike-of-1882-83-2023-08-30https://cclh.ca/newswire/unionization-and-greenhouse-gas-emissions-2023-07-16For 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 that pitted loggers against environmentalists to the current conflicts between fossil fuel workers and governments moving slowly toward greenhouse gas reductions, workers and their unions have been cast as obstacles to ecological progress.Sun, 16 Jul 2023 09:04:00 -0400https://cclh.ca/newswire/unionization-and-greenhouse-gas-emissions-2023-07-16https://cclh.ca/newswire/maurice-spectors-labour-and-the-law-in-canada-1932-2023-09-04Maurice 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 Trotskyism. Less well known was that he was in law school when he began his career with the Communist Party, paused his studies for a decade, and returned to that project after his dismissal. He wrote a prize-winning essay in 1932, providing a rare glimpse into the state of labour law at the time from the Marxist-Leninist perspective.Wed, 28 Jun 2023 10:32:00 -0400https://cclh.ca/newswire/maurice-spectors-labour-and-the-law-in-canada-1932-2023-09-04https://cclh.ca/newswire/waitresses-in-action-recovering-the-history-of-labour-feminism-2023-06-18Restaurant and food service workers – an estimated 1.3 million in Canada – face an uphill organizing battle. Precarious working conditions and...Sun, 18 Jun 2023 20:27:00 -0400https://cclh.ca/newswire/waitresses-in-action-recovering-the-history-of-labour-feminism-2023-06-18https://cclh.ca/newswire/bcs-forgotten-labour-daily-2023-06-12On May Day, 1901, District Union No. 6 of the Western Federation of Miners, began publishing the Rossland Evening World , an “advocate [of] the cause...Mon, 12 Jun 2023 14:32:00 -0400https://cclh.ca/newswire/bcs-forgotten-labour-daily-2023-06-12https://cclh.ca/newswire/organizing-precarious-professionals-2021-10-08An unfortunate reality of our time, precarious employment encompasses a vast array of occupations. Archaeologists working on contracts in Québec are...Fri, 08 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0400https://cclh.ca/newswire/organizing-precarious-professionals-2021-10-08