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This essay attempts to place Canadian workers' 1919 militancy in a national and international context. Utilizing freshly compiled strike data and focusing on events outside of Winnipeg, the paper argues that the 1919 revolt was nation-wide and part of the international post-war revolutionary upsurge. The new prominence of women and immigrant workers, reflecting the drive for industrial unionism, is emphasized.
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Takes note that a previously published book review by Jacques Roulliard is being reprinted with corrections in the current issue.
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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.
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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.
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This essay is a contribution to the debate concerning the direction of social and working-class history. Comments are made on periodization, regionalism, ethnicity, and culture. Class analysis and the utility of culture for the study of Canadian workers are strongly defended.
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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.
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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.
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Argues that skilled workers in the nineteenth century had more control than was previously realized. Examines three Toronto unions active from the 1860s to the 1890s: the Coopers International Union, Ontario No. 3; the International Typographical Union No. 91; and the Iron Molders International Union No. 28. Analyzes various incidents that demonstrated the power of the skilled workers’ unions. Concludes by discussing the arrival of new threats to workers' control: scientific management, the rise of large corporations, and the expansion of labour-saving machinery.
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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.
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Announces the appointment of Charles Smith and Joan Sangster as co-editors of the journal.
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This article reviews the book, "History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out: Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Working-Class History" by James R. Barrett.
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The article reviews the book, "The Communist International, Anti-Imperialism and Racial Equality in British Dominions," by Oleksa Drachewych.
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Pays homage to the life and work of the Canadian social historian, Michael Cross (1938-2019). Includes two photos.
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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
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The article reviews the book, "Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers," by Ahmed White.
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Analyzes Pentland's pathbreaking contributions to Canadian history and political economy.
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This article reviews the book, "Transpacific Reform and Revolution: The Chinese in North America, 1898-1918" by Zhongping Chen.
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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.
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Pays homage to Irene Whitfield (1941-2013), who was managing editor of the journal from 1982 to 2007.
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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.
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