Lectures in Canadian Labour and Working-Class History

Resource type
Title
Lectures in Canadian Labour and Working-Class History
Abstract
In 1983 and 1984 the Canadian Studies Program of the Secretary of State funded four lecture series at Canadian universities on the history of the Canadian working class. This volume presents many of the lectures in a published version. Ranging from east to west and covering two centuries of Canadian labour history, the volume includes a selection of essays by some of Canada's leading social historians including Michael Cross, David Frank, Ross McCormack, Bryan Palmer and Joy Parr. Outstanding participants in the making of Canadian labour history Eugene Forsey and H. Landon Ladd have also contributed. Directed at a popular audience these fourteen lectures provide a major survey of Canada's labour past. --Publisher's description
Series
Past CCLH Publications
Place
Edmonton
Publisher
AU Press
Date
1985
# of Pages
198 pages: illustrations:
Language
English
ISBN
0-9692060-0-3
Call Number
HD 8104 L43 1985
Notes

Contents: Overviews. The History of the Canadian Labour Movement / Eugene Forsey -- The Structure of Canadian Working-Class History / Gregory S. Kealey. The Nineteenth-century Experience. The Canadian Worker in the Early Industrial Age / Michael S. Cross -- Labour in Nineteenth-Century Canada / Bryan D. Palmer. The Twentieth-century Experience. Canadian Working Women in the Twentieth Century / Joan Sangster -- Women Workers in the Twentieth Century / Joy Parr -- Gompers in Canada Revisited / Robert H. Babcock -- Wobblies and Blanketstiffs: The Constituency of the IWW in Western Canada / A. Ross McCormack -- The Western Working-Class Experience / A. Ross McCormack -- The Provincial Workmen’s Association: A Brief Survey of Several Problems of Interpretation / Ian McKay -- The Struggle for Development: Workers in Atlantic Canada in the Twentieth Century / David Frank -- The Newfoundland Loggers’ Strike of 1959 / H. Landon Ladd -- Quebec Workers in the Twentieth Century / Leo Roback -- “Taking It:” Ontario’s Workers’ Struggles / Bryan Palmer.

Citation
Cherwinski, W. J. C. (Walter J. C., & Kealey, G. S. (Eds.). (1985). Lectures in Canadian Labour and Working-Class History. AU Press. https://www.aupress.ca/app/uploads/cclh01_99Z_Cherwinski_Kealey_1985-Lectures_in_Canadian_Labour.pdf