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Provides an overview of the current issue as the journal celebrates its 10th anniversary. Appreciation is expressed for the longstanding relationship the journal had with the printing service, which has drawn to a close. Papers presented emphasize the current state of labour and working-class history, including issues of gender and ethnicity. The editor gratefully acknowledges arrivals and departures of editorial board members. A research assistant has updated the journal's index. Memorial University of Newfoundland is thanked for its generous institutional support of the journal.

Notes that the journal is celebrating its 10th anniversary and will be hosting two sessions at the annual meeting of the Canadian Historical Association in Winnipeg.

Notes with great sadness the recent deaths of Marta Danylewycz, Leo Roback, and Herbert G. Gutman. The current volume is dedicated to their memory.

The article reviews and comments on "Family Time and Industrial Time. The Relationship Between the Family and Work in a New England Industrial Community," by Tamara K. Hareven, and "The Working Population of Manchester, New Hampshire, 1840-1886," by James P. Hanlan.

Introduces two new sections in the journal on correspondence and debates, and thanks two departing members of the editorial board for their service.

Takes note that a previously published book review by Jacques Roulliard is being reprinted with corrections in the current issue.

Takes note of the poetry published in the issue, including an accompanying essay. Bryan Palmer will soon be contributing as the review editor. Following an SSHRCC investigation of alternative formats, the print publication of the journal will continue to have primacy over microfiche.

Notes the contributions to scholarly debates in the issue as well as expanded editorial support for book reviews in the French language, the new section on work poetry, and bibliography of labour studies resources in the French language. Changes to the editorial board are also noted. The tenth anniversary of the Committee on Canadian Labour History is marked with an index of its publications.

The editor notes that articles on conferences and labour-related archival resources are included in the issue, and that a bibliography is forthcoming. Appreciation is expressed for two departing members of the editorial board.

Highlights the expansion of the documents section of the journal and the inauguration of a new section on literature reviews. Invites wider contributions to the journal (poetry, fiction, theatre, musical recordings) and debates, as illustrated by Paul Craven's response in the issue to Reg Whitaker's article on Mackenzie King that was previously published in the journal. The volume is in memoriam of H.C. Pentland, whose article on the 1972 survey of the Canadian industrial relations system is published for the first time.

Announces the appointment of Charles Smith and Joan Sangster as co-editors of the journal.

The article reviews the book, "The Communist International, Anti-Imperialism and Racial Equality in British Dominions," by Oleksa Drachewych.

What follows is an index to the first ten years of publications of the Committee on Canadian Labour History (CCLH). Founded in 1972 as a committee of the Canadian Historical Association, the CCLH commenced the publication of a Newsletter, which appeared seven times between 1972 and 1975 under the editorship of André LeBlanc. In 1976 the CCLH began two new publications — the Bulletin, edited by John Battye, which ran to 8 issues, ending in 1979, and Labour/Le Travailleur, which appeared as an annual until 1980 when it began to appear twice a year, incorporating the Bulletin. --Editor's introduciton

The editor notes that the issue contains papers presented at the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike symposium held at the University of Winnipeg in March 1983. The symposium's organizers, Nolan Reilly and Paul Stevenson, also served as guest editors for the issue. Also notes the change of the French title of the journal to Le Travail to avoid the sexist connotation of Le Travailleur, for which the editor apologized.

The article pays homage to the life and work of Canadian social historian Michael S. Cross (1938-2019).

The article reviews "The Garden Transformed: Prince Edward Island, 1945-1980," by Verner Smitheram, David Milne, and Satadal Dasgupta, "Women and Trade Unions in Eleven Industrialized Countries," edited by Alice Cook, Val R. Lorwin, and Arlene Kaplan Daniels, "Black Socialist Preacher: The Teachings of Reverend George Washington Woodbey and his Disciple Reverend George W. Slater, Jr.," edited by Philip S. Foner, "Supremacy and Subordination of Labour: The Hierarchy of Work in the Early Labour Movement," by Mike Holbrook-Jones,"Canadian Papers in Rural History," v. 4, edited by Donald H. Akenson, "The Company on the Coast," edited by E. Blanche Norcross, "Class Power and State Power; Political Essays," by Ralph Miliband, "Labor in the World Social Structure," v. 2, edited by Immanuel Wallerstein, "The Polish Peasant in Europe and America," by William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki, edited and abridged by Eli Zaretsky, "Shopkeepers and Master Artisans in Nineteenth-Centurv Europe," edited by Geoffrey Crossick and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, "Family Honour: An American Life," by George Cuomo, "Passages in the Life of a Radical," by Samuel Bamford, "In the Tracks of Historical Materialism," by Perry Anderson, "Marx and Engels: A Conceptual Concordance," by Gerard Bekerman, "Twenty Years of the Fishermen's Protective Union of Newfoundland," edited by Hon. Sir W.F. Coaker, / reviews by Gregory S. Kealey -- "The Culture of Technology," by Arnold Pacey / review by C. de B.

Documents the exposure of Jack Esselwein, also known as Sergeant John Leopold, who, as an undercover operative of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, joined the Communist Party of Canada. His identity was revealed after a series of police raids on August 11, 1931, which led to the arrest of a number of leading Communists, including Tim Buck. Esselwein testified at the trial in November 1931 whereby the Communists were convicted and sentenced to penitentiary terms under the notorious section 98 of the criminal code. They had already discovered that Esselwein was a police spy. The Toronto Daily Star report (published November 13, 1931) on Esselwein's unmasking is included in the article.

Introduces the Communist writer, educator, and activist Margaret Fairley, who in the 1950s edited a book of Canadian oral labour history that was left unfinished. The book, entitled "With Our Own Hands," included three manuscripts - memoirs of Claude Theodore, Peter Cordoni, and A.J. MacDonald - that are published for the first time. Collectively, they shed light on the largely rural, immigrant, working-class experience of Canada in the early 20th century. MacDonald's reminiscences also describe life in the village of Cadott, Wisconsin, in the 1890s, before the family moved to Alberta. The manuscripts are located at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.

This three-part report presents the results of a major research project underdertaken in the early 1980s. The project aimed to establish a new statistical time series for strikes in Canada. The final results of this work will appear in 1990 in volume three of the Historical Atlas of Canada which will contain a series of four plates on Canadian labour in the years 1891-1961. In this report we shall focus on the data concerning the years 1891-1950. An essay on method and sources is published here as Part II of this report and the data set is presented fully in Part III. In addition, we want to state at the outset that the more we work on this data, the more fully we agree with David Montgomery's assertion that "any attempt to formulate a positivistic 'natural history of strikes* is doomed to failure. Strikes can only be understood in the context of the changing totality of class conflicts, of which they are a part." --From authors' introduction

This three-part report presents the results of a major research project underdertaken in the early 1980s. The project aimed to establish a new statistical time series for strikes in Canada. The final results of this work will appear in 1990 in volume three of the Historical Atlas of Canada which will contain a series of four plates on Canadian labour in the years 1891-1961. In this report we shall focus on the data concerning the years 1891-1950. An essay on method and sources is published here as Part II of this report and the data set is presented fully in Part III. In addition, we want to state at the outset that the more we work on this data, the more fully we agree with David Montgomery's assertion that "any attempt to formulate a positivistic 'natural history of strikes* is doomed to failure. Strikes can only be understood in the context of the changing totality of class conflicts, of which they are a part." --From authors' introduction