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The article briefly reviews "The Structure of the Canadian Capitalist Class," by Robert J. Brym, "Democratic Socialism: The Challenge of the Eighties and Beyond," edited by Donna Wilson, "Old Passions, New Visions: Social Movements and Political Activism in Quebec," by Marc Raboy, "Frank H. Underhill; Intellectual Provocateur," by R. Douglas Francis, "Emerging Identities: Selected Problems and Interpretations in Canadian History," edited by Paul W. Bennett and Cornelius J. Jaenen, "Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, I680-1800," by Allan Kulikoff, "Will Herberg: A Bio-Bibliography," by Harry J. Ausmus, "Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America," by Carrol Smith-Rosenberg, "The Collected Essays of Asa Briggs, Volume 1: Words, Numbers, Places, People and Volume Two: Images, Problems, Standpoints, Forecasts," by Asa Briggs, "The Irish in the Victorian City," by Roger Swift and Sheridan Gilley, "British Economic Growth during the Industrial Revolution," by N.F.R. Crafts, "Language, Gentler and Childhood," edited by Carolyn Steedman, Cathy Urwin, and Valerie Walkerdine, "British Trade Unionism Against the Trades Union Congress," by Gerald A. Dorfman, "Artisans, Peasants, and Proletarians, 1760-1860: Essays Presented to Gwyn Williams," by Clive Emsley and James Walvin,"Labor Migration in the Atlantic Economies: The European and North American Working Classes During the Period of Industrialization," edited by Dirk Hoerder, "The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany," by David Blackbourn and Geoff Eley, "The Development of Capitalism in Northern Nigeria," by Robert Shenton, "Capitalism and Social Democracy," by Adam Przeworski, "Outsiders: A Study in Life and Letters," by Hans Mayer / reviews by Bryan D. Palmer -- "Talkin' Union: Music Lore History," journal edited by Saul Schniderman, "Nature's Noblemen: The Fortunes of the independent Collier in Scotland and the American Midwest, 1855-1885," by John H.M. Laslett / reviews by Gregory S. Kealey.

The article briefly reviews "1919: The Winnipeg General Strike," by Gerry Berkowski and Nolan Reilly,"The Writing of Canadian Histo ry: Aspects of English-Canadian Historical Writing since 1900," by Carl Berger, "A Conjunction of Interests: Bus iness, Politics, and Tariffs, 1825-1879," by Ben Forster, "Vancouver Past: Essays in Social History," edited by Robert A.J. McDonald and Jean Barman, "Quebec before Duplessis: The Political Career of Louis-Alexandre Taschereau," by Bernard L. Vigod, "Canada, What's Left?," edited by John Richards and Don Kerr,"'My Dear Legs': Letters to a Young Social Democrat," by Alex Macdonald, "The Knights in Fiction: Two Labor Novels of the 1880s," edited by Mary C. Grimes, "Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in Europe an and American Thought, 1870-1920," by James T. Kloppenberg, "The Growth of Working Class Reformism in Mid-Victorian England," by Neville Kirk, "Proletarians and Protest: The Roots of Class Formation in an Industrializing World," edited by Michael Hanagan and Charles Stephenson, "Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-Century France: The Uses of Loyalty ," by Sarah C. Maza, "The German Revolution and the Debate on Soviet Power — Documents: 1918-1919, Preparing the Founding Congress," edited by John Riddell,"The Ties That Bind: Peasant Families in Medieval England," by Barbara A. Hanawalt, "Households and the World Economy," edited by Joan Smith, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Hans Dieter Evers, "Revolutionaries and Reformists: Communism and the Australian Labour Movement, 1920-1950," by Robin Gollan, "The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism: An Elaboration of Marxian Political Economy," by John Bellamy Foster, "An Introduction to Marxist Political Economy," by Bade Onimode, "Workplace Democracy: A Guide to Workplace Ownership, Participation, and Self-Management Experiments in the United States and Europe," by Daniel Zwerdling, "The Future of the Left," edited by James Curran, "Blue Chips," by Herbert A. Applebaum / reviews by Bryan D. Palmer -- "Something in Common - An IWW Bibliography," compiled by Dione Miles, "Samuel Gompers: A Selected List of References About the Man and His Time," by David Myers / reviews by Gregory S. Kealey.

Announces Sean Cadigan's resignation as editor. Bryan Palmer and Gregory Kealey to be interim co-editors until a new appointment is made. Takes note of the Canadian Labour Studies database, an open access bibliography of labour studies resources produced by Laurentian University librarians Desmond Maley and Dan Scott.

As Canada's most industrialised province, Ontario served as the regional centre of the Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, an organisation which embodied a late nineteenth-century working-class vision of an alternative to the developing industrial-capitalist society. The Order opposed the exploitation of labor, and cultivated working-class unity by providing an institutional and cultural rallying point for North American workers. By 1886 thousands of industrial workers had enrolled within the ranks of Ontario's local and district assemblies. This book examines the rise and fall of the Order, providing case studies of its experience in Toronto and Hamilton and chronicling its impact across the province. --Publisher's description. Contents: Introduction. Part 1. Overview: The working class and industrial capitalist development in Ontario to 1890 -- 'Warp, woof, and web': the structure of the Knights of Labor in Ontario. Part 2. The Local Setting: Toronto and the organization of all workers -- Hamilton and the home club. Part 3. The Wider Experience: Taking the Bad with the Good -- 'Unscrupulous rascals and the most infamous damn liars and tricksters at large': the underside of the Knights of Labor -- The order in politics: the challenge of 1883-1887 -- 'Politicians in the order': the conflicts of decline, 1887-1894 -- 'Spread the light': forging a culture -- The people's strike: class conflict and the Knights of Labor. Part 4. Conclusion: Accomplishment and failure -- Appendix -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.

The Order of the Knights of Labor played a determining role in the organization of the world of work at the end of the nineteenth century. Social movement more than union than a trade union, the order addressed all workers without consideration of of sex, ethnic or racial origin, and trade qualification. The Order thus represented to industrial capitalism the most important challenge it had to face in North America. In Ontario, this challenge was as much political and cultural as it was economic as well as in economic matters. We present here the history of the Order of the Knights of Labor in Ontario from 1880 to 1902; in the context of the industrial development of the of the industrial development of the province, the internal structures of this movement and the and the actions that it exercised in the economic, political and cultural fields. [Translation of the French resumé]

The article briefly reviews "Canadian Corporate Power," by Henry Veltmeyer, "People and Places: Studies of Small Town Life in the Maritimes," edited by Larry McCann, "Schooling and Scholars in Nineteenth-Century Ontario," by Susan E. Houston and Alison Prentice, "No Bleeding Heart: Charlotte Whitton, A Feminist on the Right," by P.R. Rooke and R.L. Schnell, "The Memoirs of Giovanni Veltri," edited by John Potestio, "Feminist Research: Prospect and Retrospect," edited by Peta Tancred-Sheriff, "Waterfront Warlord: The Life and Violent Times of Hal C. Banks," by Peter Edwards, "Free Trade and the Future of Women's Work: Manufacturing and Service Industries," by Marjorie Griffin Cohen, "The History of the Ontario Liquor Boards Employees' Union," by Beveriy Dalys, "Labour Law Under the Charter: Proceedings of a Conference." sponsored by the Industrial Relations Centre, School of Industrial Relations and Faculty of Law, Queen's University, "The State of the Art in Industrial Relations," edited by Gerard Hébert, Hen C. Jain, and Noah M. Meltz, "Case Critical: The Dilemma of Social Work in Canada," by Ben Carniol, "From Culture to Power: The Sociology of English Canada," by Robert J. Brym, with Bonnie Fox, "On the Archival Heritage of the Finnish Canadian Working-Class Movement: A Researcher's Guide and Inventory to the Finnish Organisation of Canada Collection at the National Archives of Canada," by Edward W. Laine, "On the Line: Essays in the History of Auto Work," edited by Nelson Lichtenstein and Stephen Meyer, " To Toil the Livelong Day' : Women at Work, 1780-1980," edited by Carol Groneman and Mary Beth Norton, "Hard Times in Paradise: Coos Bay, Oregon, 1850-1985," by William G. Robbins, "Working Lives: An Oral History of Rhode Island Labor," edited by Paul M. Buhle, and "A History of Rhode Island Working People," edited by Paul Buhle, Scott Malloy, and Gail Salisbury, "Professionalism and Social Change: From the Settlement House Movement to Neighborhood Centers, 1886 to the Present," by Judith Ann Trolander, "Raising Less Corn and More Hell: Midwestern Farmers Speak Out," by Jim Schwab, "The Party of Fear: From Nativist Movements to the New Right in American History," by David H. Bennett, "The American Perception of Class," by Reeve Vannenun and Lynn Weber Cannon, "Prudent Revolutionaries: Portraits of British Feminists Between the Wars," by Brian Harrison, "Trade Unions and the New Industrialization of the Third World," edited by Roger Southall, "Pass Controls and the Urban African Proletariat," by Doug Hindson / reviews by Bryan D. Palmer -- " First Days, Fighting Days. Women in Manitoba History," edited by Mary Kinnear / review by VDP [see editor's note for correction made in no. 25 (Spring 1996), page 6] -- "The Road from Coorain," by Jill Ker Conway / review by Gregory S. Kealey.

This volume is a reprint of a special edition of the Canadian Journal of Sociology.The essays are gathered around two themes: the relationship of sociology and social history, and the intersection of gender, ethnicity, and region with class. Unlike most Canadian essay collections, the contributors and their subjects cover Canada from British Columbia to Newfoundland, with forays into Cape Breton and central Canada. The volume contains articles by Ian McKay, Gordon Darroch, James R. Conley, Alicja Muszynski, Gillian Creese, and Jim Overton. An interesting collection of some of the new work being done in Canada by historians and sociologists, Class, Gender, and Region reflects Charles Tilly's suggestion that "there should be no disciplinary division of labour: simply both doing social history." --Publisher's description

The notebook opens with "Representations of a Radical Historian," a review of "You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train," a documentary on Howard Zinn by Deb Ellis and Denis Mueller (78 minutes, colour, (Brooklyn 2004)). In the second part, entitled "System Failure: The Breakdown of the Post-War Settlement and the Politics of Labour in Our Time," Bryan D. Palmer presents a revised version of an "educational and agitational address" given to the Alberta Federation of Labour's membership forum on 7 May 2004 in the aftermath of the British Columbia hospital and long-term care workers' strike.

A survey of the global trajectory of labour history. Specially commissioned essays by labour historians of international repute consider: early labour history traditions, new conceptions of class, gender, ethnicity, culture, community and power. Whether the 1960s can be regarded as turning point in labour history the general historiographical climate in the mid-twentieth century the institutional context (e.g. the evolution of labour history societies, historical associations and journals) links between labour history and the labour movement Many authors are connected with the British Society for the Study of Labour History; all are experts in the labour history of particular countries. They analyse key debates, question dominant paradigms, acknowledge minority critiques and consider future directions. --Publisher's description.

Working-class history is the story of the changing conditions and actions of all working people. Most adult Canadians today earn their living in the form of wages and salaries and thus share the conditions of dependent employment associated with the definition of "working class." -- Introduction

These essays introduce readers to the changing and complex character of class struggle in Canada. Individual essays focus on specific features of Canadian class struggle: regional differences, the role of gender, the character of trade union leadership to the specific nature of conflict in particular industries; and the general features of national periods of upheaval such as the year 1919 and the World War II period. [Of the eight essays, two are original to the volume, while the others are abridged or revised versions of articles that previously appeared in publications such as Labour/Le Travail and New Left Review.] --Publisher's description. Contents: Introduction (pages 9-14). Part 1. Varieties of capitalism, varieties of struggle: The nineteenth century experience (15-16). Class struggle and merchant capital: Craftsmen and labourers on the Halifax wonterfront, 1850-1902 / Ian McKay (17-36)-- The bonds of unity: The Knights of Labor in Ontario, 1880-1900 / Gregory S. Kealey and Bryan D. Palmer (37-65). Part 2. Monopoly capitalism and the unevenness of class struggle (66-67). Hamilton steelworkers and the rise of mass production / Craig Heron (68-89) -- 1919: The Canadian labour revolt / Gregory S. Kealey (90-114) -- The transformation of women's work in the Quebec cotton industry, 1920-1950 / Gail Cuthbert Brandt (115-34)). Part 3. Advanced capitalism and accommodating the class struggle (135-37). The malaise of compulsory conciliation: Strike prevention during World War II / Jeremy Webber (138-59) -- Feminism at work / Heather Jon Maroney (160-75) -- The rise and fall of British Columbia's Solidarity / Bryan D. Palmer (176-200). Bibliographical notes: pages 201-39.

For the purposes of this review, labour studies is defined to encompass various disciplinary approaches, but, in general, this essay focuses on studies of the working class, not just of the labour movement, and material which places the working class in historical perspective. --From authors' introduction

Provides an illustrated overview of the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 and its significance today for working-class organizations and socialism. Contents: Introduction: Revisiting the workers' revolt in Winnipeg / Sean Carleton and Julia Smith (p. 23) -- 1919: Recovering a a legacy / Bryan D. Palmer (pp. 24 - 31, 40) [https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/1919-recovering-a-legacy] -- 1919: A graphic history of the Winnipeg General Strike [reproduction of the cover and illustrations from the book by the Graphic History Collective and David Lester] (pp. 32, 36-37) --  Red flags: Reflections on racism and radicalism / Owen Yoews (pp. 33-35, 40) [https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/red-flags-reflections-on-racism-and-radicalism] -- From 1919 to the fight for $15: Working-class organizing in Winnipeg today / Emily Leedham (pp. 38-30) [https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/from-1919-to-the-fight-for-15-working-class-organizing-in-winnipeg-today].

The article introduces the first of a two-part series in the journal on the 50th anniversary of the publication of "The Making of the English Working Class" by British historian E.P. Thompson. In addition to describing their own responses, the authors discuss how the book has influenced working-class studies, its political impact, Thompson's Marxism, and his critique of Methodism. The articles in the presentation include: "E.P. Thompson’s Capital: Political Economy in The Making" by Michael Merrill; "Among the Autodidacts: The Making of E.P. Thompson" by Margaret C. Jacob; “The something that has called itself ‘Marxism’” by Peter Way; "The Face of Power" by Tina Loo; "A Definitive ‘And fookin’ Amen to that!" by David Levine; "Frame Breaking Then and Now" by Rebecca Hill; and "The Privilege of History" by Sean Cadigan.

The article discusses the opportunities and challenges facing the labour movement in Canada during the global financial crisis and the neoliberal restructuring of the economy.

Introduces the second of the two-part series in the journal on the 50th anniversary of the publication of "The Making of the English Working Class" by E.P. Thompson. Articles include: "The Lost Causes of E. P. Thompson" by Dipesh Chakrabarty; "Class Formation, Politics, Structures of Feeling" by Geoff Eley; "Comrade Thompson and Saint Foucault" by Todd McCallum; "Exploitation: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis?" by James Epstein; "Looking Back and Ahead" by August Carbonella; "The Making dans les eaux troubles de l’historiographie québécoise : réception hésitante d’un livre en avant de son temps" by Robert Tremblay; "Who now reads E.P. Thompson? Or, (Re)reading The Making at UQAM" by Magda Fahrni; and "Individual Statements on E.P. Thompson" by, respectively, Jesse Lemisch, Alice Kessler-Harris, and June Hannam.

The work of Bryan D. Palmer, one of North America’s leading historians, has influenced the fields of labour history, social history, discourse analysis, communist history, and Canadian history, as well as the theoretical frameworks surrounding them. Palmer’s work reveals a life dedicated to dissent and the difficult task of imagining alternatives by understanding the past in all of its contradictions, victories, and failures. Dissenting Traditions gathers Palmer’s contemporaries, students, and sometimes critics to examine and expand on the topics and themes that have defined Palmer’s career, from labour history to Marxism and communist politics. Paying attention to Palmer’s participation in key debates, contributors demonstrate that class analysis, labour history, building institutions, and engaging the public are vital for social change. In this moment of increasing precarity and growing class inequality, Palmer’s politically engaged scholarship offers a useful roadmap for scholars and activists alike and underlines the importance of working-class history. --Publisher's description. Contents: Introduction / Sean Carleton, Ted McCoy, and Julia Smith -- Part I. Labour. Bryan D. Palmer, Labour historian / Alvin Finkel -- Bryan D. Palmer, social historian / Ted McCoy -- Labour history’s present: An account of Labour/Le Travail under Bryan D. Palmer / Kirk Niergarth. Part 2. Experience, discourse, class. Bryan D. Palmer and E. P. Thompson / Nicholas Rogers -- On polemics and provocations: Bryan D. Palmer vs. liberal anti-Marxists / Chad Pearson -- Bryan Douglas Palmer, Edward Palmer Thompson, John le Carré (and me): Workers, spies, and spying, past and present / Gregory S. Kealey. Part 3. Politics. Palmer’s politics: Discovering the past and the future of class struggle / Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin -- The hippopotamus and the giraffe: Bolshevism, Stalinism, and American and British Communism in the 1920s / John McIlroy and Alan Campbell -- The June days of 2013 in Brazil and the persistence of top-down histories / Sean Purdy -- Old positions/new directions: Strategies for rebuilding Canadian working-class history / Sean Carleton and Julia Smith -- Afterword: Rude awakenings / Bryan D. Palmer -- Selected Works of Bryan D. Palmer -- List of contributors.

Although the 1960s are overwhelmingly associated with student radicalism and the New Left, most Canadians witnessed the decade's political, economic, and cultural turmoil from a different perspective. Debating Dissent dispels the myths and stereotypes associated with the 1960s by examining what this era's transformations meant to diverse groups of Canadians - and not only protestors, youth, or the white middle-class.With critical contributions from new and senior scholars, Debating Dissent integrates traditional conceptions of the 1960s as a 'time apart' within the broader framework of the 'long-sixties' and post-1945 Canada, and places Canada within a local, national, an international context. Cutting-edge essays in social, intellectual, and political history reflect a range of historical interpretation and explore such diverse topics as narcotics, the environment, education, workers, Aboriginal and Black activism, nationalism, Quebec, women, and bilingualism. Touching on the decade's biggest issues, from changing cultural norms to the role of the state, Debating Dissent critically examines ideas of generational change and the sixties. --Publisher's description