The Labour Companion: A Bibliography of Printed Sources of Canadian Labour History

The Canadian Labour Bibliography was an initiative of the Committee on Canadian Labour History in the 1970s. The initial efforts to create an annual reading list of publications dealing with Canadian labour topics led to the creation of The Labour Companion: a bibliography of Canadian labour history based on materials printed from 1950 to 1975. ...The enthusiasm that greeted The Labour Companion prompted Greg Kealey, then teaching at Dalhousie University, to obtain a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant for a much larger product – a comprehensive reading list of books, pamphlets, articles and theses pertinent to the Canadian labour experience (the labour movement, trade unions, living conditions, key legislation, etc.). The intent was to build on the 1980 bibliography and to catalogue the published record on the Canadian working class from earliest times to 1985. Items of more recent vintage have crept in, but no effort was made to deal comprehensively with the entire published record from the late 1980’s forward. To locate that material, researchers should consult Michael Lonardo’s Canadian Labour History Bibliography, an electronic compilation covering 1976 to 2009, found at Memorial University Library https://www.library.mun.ca/qeii/labour/ --Introduction