Canadian Labour History: Selected Readings

The second edition of Canadian Labour History invites the reader to enter the debate that has made this field of study such a dynamic one in the past two decades. Covering the period from 1840 to 1980, these essays focus on a variety of Canadian regions demonstrating the similarities and differences of regional experiences. Similarly, alternate approaches to a single event-the Winnipeg General Strike-illustrate the diversity in the interpretation of labour history. --Publisher's description. Contents: The formation and fragmentation of the Canadian working class, 1820-1920 / Daniel Drache -- Listening to history rather than historians: Reflections on working class history / Bryan D. Palmer -- Ethnicity and class, transitions over a decade: Ontario, 1861-1871 / A. Gordon Darroch and Michael Ornstein -- Women and wage labour in a period of transition: Montreal, 1861-1881 / Bettina Bradbury -- Strikes in the Maritimes, 1901-1914 / Ian McKay -- Labour's civil war / David J. Bercuson -- 1919: The Canadian labour revolt / Gregory S. Kealey -- “We are all kin”: Reconsidering labour and class in Calgary, 1919 / David Bright -- Communists and auto workers: The struggle for industrial unionism in the Canadian automobile industry, 1925-1936 / John Manley -- The United Mine Workers and the coming of the CCF to Cape Breton / M. Earle and H. Gamberg -- The 1943 steel strike against wartime wage control / Laurel Sefton MacDowell -- Woodworkers and the mechanization of the pulpwood logging industry in Northern Ontario, 1950-1970 / Ian Radforth -- Inside postal workers: The labour process, state policy, and the workers' response / Bruce Laidlaw and Bruce Curtis -- A heritage of hope and struggle: Workers, unions, and politics in Canada, 1930-1982 / Wayne Roberts and John Bullen.