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The Red Baron of IBEW Local 213

Les McDonald, Union Politics, and the 1966 Wildcat Strike at Lenkurt Electric

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2022
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The Lights on the Tipple Are Going Out

Fighting Economic Ruin in a Canadian Coalfield Community

UBC Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Shifting Gears

Canadian Autoworkers and the Changing Landscape of Labour Politics

UBC Press

Shifting Gears tells the story of how Canada’s largest private-sector union shifted its political strategy from an emphasis on transformative activism to transactional partnerships.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Hell’s Not Far Off

Bruce Crawford and the Appalachian Left

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Canadian Labour Policy and Politics

Edited by John Peters and Don Wells
UBC Press

Canadian Labour Policy and Politics is essential reading for students seeking to understand the politics of inequality in Canada’s labour market and the policy agenda needed for greater economic equality and a sustainable green recovery.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Class Warrior

The Selected Works of E. T. Kingsley

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2022
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Workers and Democracy

The Indonesian Labour Movement, 1949–1957

University of Hawaii Press
  • Copyright year: 2022
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Contested and Dangerous Seas

North Atlantic Fishermen, Their Wives, Unions, and the Politics of Exclusion

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Red Coast

Radicalism and Anti-Radicalism in Southwest Washington

Oregon State University Press

The Red Coast is a lively, readable, and informal history of the labor, left-wing, and progressive activists who lived, worked, and organized in southwest Washington State from the late nineteenth century until World War II. The book serves as a hidden history for a region frequently identified with conservatism, rescuing these working-class activists from obscurity and placing them at the center of southwest Washington's history. Topics include the Wobblies, the labor wars of the 1910s and 1930s, and the lumber and maritime industries. Labor historians, scholars, and general readers with interest in the working class history of Southwest Washington will welcome this comprehensive and accessible account.
 

  • Copyright year: 2019
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The Conspiracy of Capital

Law, Violence, and American Popular Radicalism in the Age of Monopoly

University of Massachusetts Press
  • Copyright year: 2019
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Canada's Labour Market Training System

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2018
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After Coal

Stories of Survival in Appalachia and Wales

West Virginia University Press
  • Copyright year: 2018
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Beyond the Rebel Girl

Women and the Industrial Workers of the World in the Pacific Northwest, 1905-1924

Oregon State University Press

Beyond the Rebel Girl is a study of the women associated with the Industrial Workers of the World in the states of Oregon and Washington, from the time of the union’s founding in 1905 until 1924. Many women were drawn to the IWW for its radical vision and inclusionary policies. The union offered women an avenue for activism that did not focus primarily on the fight for suffrage. While female Wobblies were in favor of suffrage, they believed that organization in the workplace was the only way to true emancipation.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Reconsidering Southern Labor History

Race, Class, and Power

University Press of Florida
  • Copyright year: 2018
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The Constant Liberal

Pierre Trudeau, Organized Labour, and the Canadian Social Democratic Left

UBC Press

Challenging interpretations of Pierre Elliott Trudeau as either the founder of a progressive Canada or an unavowed and destructive socialist, this book argues that he was in fact a staunch defender of capitalist values who helped make the country more conservative.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Defying Expectations

The Case of UFCW Local 401

Athabasca University Press

In this study of UFCW 401, Foster investigates a union that has had remarkable success organizing a group of workers that North American unions often struggle to reach: immigrants, women, and youth.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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The Deindustrialized World

Confronting Ruination in Postindustrial Places

UBC Press

The Deindustrialized World opens a window on the experiences of those living at ground zero of deindustrialization and examines confrontations with the ruination of people and places on a global scale.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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American Labor in the Southwest

The First One Hundred Years

Edited by James C. Foster
The University of Arizona Press
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Health and Safety in Canadian Workplaces

Athabasca University Press
  • Copyright year: 2016
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