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The article reviews the book, "When Coal Was King: Ladysmith and the Coal-Mining Industry on Vancouver Island," by John R. Hinde.
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The article reviews the book, "Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life," by Eric Hobsbawm.
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The article reviews the book, "Rebel Life: The Life and Times of Robert Gosden, Revolutionary, Mystic, Labour Spy," by Mark Leier.
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The article reviews and comments on the books "Race and Labor in Western Copper: The Fight for Equality, 1896-1918," by Philip J. Mellinger and "Copper Crucible: How the Arizona Miners' Strike of 1983 Recast Labor-Management Relations in America," by Jonathan D. Rosenblum.
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The article reviews the book, "The First Forty Years: A History of the Tunnel and Rock Workers Union Local 168," by M. C. Warrior and Mark Leier.
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Introduces and provides background on the letter written on Feb. 21, 1939, from Victor Midgley in New Zealand to his friend and fellow socialist, Angus MacInnis, in Vancouver. Midgley, who was formerly a prominent member of the BC labour movement and the CCF, gives his assessment of union and political affairs in New Zealand, where a Labour government was then in power. The opening page of the handwritten letter is reproduced.
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The article reviews the book "Workers' Health, Workers' Democracy: The Western Miners' Struggle, 1891 -1925," by Alan Derickson.
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This article reviews the book, "'In Our Time': Socialism and the Rise of Labor, 1885-1905," by Verity Burgmann.
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This article reviews the book, "Union and Politics in Washington State, 1885-1935," by Jonathan Dembo.
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In the 1890s, Rossland was the most important mining centre in southeastern British Columbia. In Roaring Days, Jeremy Mouat examines many different aspects of mining, from work underground to corporate strategies. He also brings to life the unique individuals who were a part of this history – the miners who toiled long hours under unimaginable working conditions, the citizens of Rossland who built a bustling town out of the wilderness, and the mine owners and entrepreneurs who became wealthy beyond all expectations. --Publisher's description. Contents: The Context of Discovery -- 'The Hope of This Country': Smelters, Railways, and the Growth of Rossland, 1895-8 -- 'The Comstock and the Rand Put Together': British Investment in Rossland -- Miners and Early Industrial Relations in the Kootenays, 1895-1900 -- 'This Militant Band of Labour's Bravest Champions': Rossland Miners, 1899-1903 -- Social Relations in Fin de Siecle Rossland -- The Emergence and Growth of Cominco, 1901-23 -- The End of the Roaring Days -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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This ground-breaking collection demonstrates the research interests of a new generation of scholars. Stressing such themes as gender, race and class, the book is compelling evidence that Western Canadian history is far more complex and subtle than its depiction in the traditional literature. The contributors emphasize the way society has been made, and the extent to which it was - and is - the product of human agency rather than possessing an intangible existency beyond the interaction of groups of people. --Publisher's description. Contents: Introduction / Elizabeth Jameson -- The Seven Oaks Incident and the Construction of a Historical Tradition, 1816 to 1970 / Lyle Dick -- The Exploitation and Narration of the Captivity of Theresa Delaney and Theresa Gowanlock, 1885 / Sarah A. Carter -- Tonto's Due: Law, Culture, and Colonization in British Columbia / Tina Loo -- Clearcutting the British Columbia Coast: Work, Environment and the State, 1880-1930 / Richard A. Rajala == Workers and Intellectuals: The Theory of the New Class and Early Canadian Socialism / Mark Leier -- "A Bachelor's Paradise": Homesteaders, Hired Hands, and the Construction of Masculinity, 1880-1930 / Cecilia Danysk -- The Limitations of the Pioneering Partnership: The Alberta Campaign for Homestead Dower, 1909-1925 / Catherine Cavanaugh -- Schooling, White Supremacy, and the Formation of a Chinese Merchant Public in British Columbia / Timothy J. Stanley -- "The Past of My Place": Western Canadian Artists and the Uses of History / Jeremy Mouat -- Western Canadian History: A Selected Bibliography.
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