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Takes note of forthcoming conferences and a San Diego exhibit entitled Camera as Weapon: Worker Photography Between the Wars.

The history of British Columbia is a history of class struggle. From the time of the fur trade to the present, working people and their battles to make a better world have transofrmed the politics, economics, laws, and workplaces of the province. This bibliography will make this history more accessible to trade unionists, students, and the general public. ...The bibliography was compiled by graduate students of Simon Fraser University's History Department: Dennis Pilon, Todd McCallum, Andy Parnaby, and David Sandquist. --Author's introduction

Takes note of forthcoming conferences, a contest, and a database on Canadian industry in 1871 that is based on the census data for that year.

The article reviews the book, "Harvey and Jessie: A Couple of Radicals," by Jessie Lloyd O'Connor, Harvey O'Connor and Susan M. Bowler.

Takes note of forthcoming conferences, research grants, and the 75th anniversary commemoration of Joe Hill. Reports that National Archives has received from the National Labour Relations Board records pertaining to the certification of unions from 1944 to 1947.

The article reviews the book, "The Damndest Radical: The Life and World of Ben Reitman Chicago's Celebrated Social Reformer, Hobo King, and Whorehouse Physician," by Roger A. Bruns.

The labour and socialist movement of British Columbia before World War One was home to a number of competing tendencies and factions. While the different groups could and did work together on occasion, their relations with each other were often marked by hostility and suspicion. The Vancouver free speech fights of 1909 and 1912 illustrate dramatically the in-fighting between the Socialist Party of Canada. the Industrial Workers of the World, and the Vancouver Trades and Labor Council. The different approaches of the organizations to the issue of free speech reflect their different ideologies, constituencies, and clans strata, and the actions of the SPC suggest that the party was, despite its impossiblist rhetoric, more interested in pragmatic trade unionism and social democracy than revolution. In refusing to put its faith in parliamentary democracy, the IWW demonstrated that it had a more consistent and deeper analysis of capitalist society than moat historians have suggested, but this very analysis and the actions consistent with it meant the IWW could be increasingly marginalized and isolated. (English)

Takes note of forthcoming conferences, calls for papers, and a query regarding BC labour activist Robert Raglan Gosden.

Takes note of calls for papers and a forthcoming conference. Reports on an addition to Wayne State University's Raya Dunayevskaya Collection, the effort to set up an international research network on coal miners and coal mines, and the Women's Labour History Project documentary entitled "Keep the Home Fires Burning." The spring 1989 edition of Archivaria will have a labour theme.

The call for papers at several conferences is reported, as are other forthcoming conferences of interest. The spring issue (no. 27) of Archivaria will be on documenting labour. A new program in social history at Carnegie Mellon University is noted. The John Dryer Collection at Wayne State University has opened; it has one of the premier archival collections on American Trotskyism.

This article reviews the book, "The Soul of the Wobblies: The I.W.W., Religion, and American Culture in the Progressive Era, 1905-1917," by Donald E. Winters.

This article reviews the book, "Roughneck: The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood," by Peter Carlson.

Andre Leblanc is acknowledged, whose idea it was to have this new section of the journal. Several forthcoming conferences are noted, as are two journal publications of interest. Also reported is a new masters and diploma program in gender and social policy at the University of Bristol. The editor is compiling a list of publications that mistakenly render the Industrial Workers of the World as the International Workers of the World.

The article reviews the book and CD, "Working-Class Heroes: A History of Struggle in Song," edited by Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore.

Takes note of forthcoming conferences and calls for papers. Reports that Elaine Bernard has left Simon Fraser University for a position at Harvard. Also reports on the Labour Archives Bulletin of the Canadian Association of Archivists, the deposit of records of the Trades Union Congress at the University of Warwick library, a United Farmworkers' boycott, and ways to support for the strike for a first collective agreement at Oxford University Press in Toronto. The editor re-issues a query for information (first published in the previous volume) regarding Robert Raglan Gosden (1881-1961), a BC labour activist who during the early 20th century was also a police spy.

This thesis is an examination of the Industrial Workers of the World and its relations with capital, organized labour, and the socialist movement in British Columbia before the First World War.

This dissertation is an examination of bureaucracy, class, and ideology in the labour movement. It seeks to understand what is meant by the term labour bureaucracy and to determine the degree to which bureaucracy shaped ideology in the Vancouver Trades and Labour Council from 1889 to 1909. -- The first section is an analysis of the theoretical literature and historiography of the labour bureaucracy. As well as providing an overview of the topic, the thesis tries to formulate a different definition of the labour bureaucracy, one that focuses on the power of the bureaucrats, rather than their ideology. The second section is a study of the officials and leaders that made up the VTLC from its beginning in 1889 to the founding of the B.C. Federation of Labour twenty years later. In this section, the ideology of the council is examined to evaluate the impact of bureaucracy on the labour movement. The policies and structure of the council are studied in detail to show how the separation of the leaders from the led developed over time and to demonstrate why bureaucratic solutions - the hiring of experts, reliance on government intervention, the routinization of procedures, and the creation of labour institutions - were taken and to outline the effect they had. The conflict between labourists and socialists is examined closely to suggest first that bureaucracy is not limited to labour leaders of any single ideology, and second, that the needs of the labour movement and the demands of bureaucracy itself tended to soften ideological battles. Even with the ascension of socialists to the council in 1907-1909, continuity remained the hallmark of the labour council, in part because socialists had no particular commitment to rank-and-file control of the labour movement. Finally, the lives and class positions of the labour leaders are illustrated to try to shed some light on the ways in which bureaucracy, class, and ideology become intertwined.

Partial contents note: Introduction / Mark Leier -- Teaching labour history and organizing skills with movement activists / Mark Leier -- Teaching the present to learn the past / John-Henry Harter -- Teaching labour history to international students / Dale M. McCartney -- Scripted celebration: issues in commemorating modern labour history / Andrea Samoil.