The Red Baron of IBEW Local 213
Les McDonald, Union Politics, and the 1966 Wildcat Strike at Lenkurt Electric
Bucking Conservatism
Alternative Stories of Alberta from the 1960s and 1970s
With chapters by both scholars and activists, Bucking Conservatism highlights the lasting influence of Alberta’s nonconformists.
Dissenting Traditions
Essays on Bryan D. Palmer, Marxism, and History
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. 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.
Psychiatry and the Legacies of Eugenics
Historical Studies of Alberta and Beyond
From 1928 to 1972, the Alberta Sexual Sterilization Act, Canada’s lengthiest eugenic policy, shaped social discourses and medical practice in the province. This volume extends historical analysis into considerations of contemporary policy and human rights issues through a discussion of disability studies as well as compensation claims for victims of sterilization.
An Ethnohistorian in Rupert’s Land
Unfinished Conversations
These essays Jennifer Brown’s investigations into the surprising range of interactions among Indigenous people and newcomers as they met or observed one another from a distance, and as they competed, compromised, and rejected or adapted to change.
Hobohemia and the Crucifixion Machine
Rival Images of a New World in 1930s Vancouver
The Wages of Relief
Cities and the Unemployed in Prairie Canada, 1929-39
Provincial Solidarities
A History of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour
A pioneering study of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour, this is the untold story of provincial labour solidarities that succeeded in overcoming divisions and defeats to raise the status of working men and women within New Brunswick society.
Solidarités Provinciales
Histoire de la Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Nouveau-Brunswick
On enseigne l’histoire tous les jours à l’école; pourquoi alors ne pourrait-on pas enseigner un peu d’histoire du travail de la province ou même du pays?
Man Proposes, God Disposes
Recollections of a French Pioneer
A crystal clear evocation of another time and place and a compelling meditation on hope and loss.
Reel Time
Movie Exhibitors and Movie Audiences in Prairie Canada, 1896 to 1986
Reel Time depicts how the industry shaped the development of the Canadian Prairie West and propelled the region into the modern era.
Union Power
Solidarity and Struggle in Niagara
Charts the development of the region's labour movement from the early nineteenth century to the present.
Through Feminist Eyes
Essays on Canadian Women’s History
Through Feminist Eyes gathers in one volume the most incisive and insightful essays written to date by the distinguished Canadian historian Joan Sangster.
Champagne and Meatballs
Adventures of a Canadian Communist
Bert Whyte’s fascinating memoir of life as an underground historical rogue who spent 40 years navigating left-wing politics and communism in Canada.
Nightwood Theatre
A Woman’s Work Is Always Done
Scott explores the history of Nightwood Theatre, the longest-running and most influential women's theatre company in Canada, a provider of opportunities for women theatre artists.
The Beaver Hills Country
A History of Land and Life
This book explores a relatively small, but interesting and anomalous, region of Alberta between the North Saskatchewan and the Battle Rivers.
Bomb Canada
and Other Unkind Remarks in the American Media
By examining major events that have tested bilateral relations, Bomb Canada tracks the history of anti-Canadianism in the U.S.
Liberalism, Surveillance, and Resistance
Indigenous communities in Western Canada, 1877-1927
This book explores the means used by government officials, police officers, church representatives, and ordinary settlers to facilitate and justify colonization, their effects on Indigenous economic, political, social, and spiritual lives, and how they were resisted.