The Red Baron of IBEW Local 213
Les McDonald, Union Politics, and the 1966 Wildcat Strike at Lenkurt Electric
The Lights on the Tipple Are Going Out
Fighting Economic Ruin in a Canadian Coalfield Community
The Lights on the Tipple Are Going Out documents the tumultuous struggle of one coal-mining region to stave off economic ruin in the face of changing times and technologies.
Shifting Gears
Canadian Autoworkers and the Changing Landscape of Labour Politics
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.
Hell’s Not Far Off
Bruce Crawford and the Appalachian Left
Canadian Labour Policy and Politics
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.
Workers and Democracy
The Indonesian Labour Movement, 1949–1957
Contested and Dangerous Seas
North Atlantic Fishermen, Their Wives, Unions, and the Politics of Exclusion
The Red Coast
Radicalism and Anti-Radicalism in Southwest Washington
The Conspiracy of Capital
Law, Violence, and American Popular Radicalism in the Age of Monopoly
After Coal
Stories of Survival in Appalachia and Wales
Beyond the Rebel Girl
Women and the Industrial Workers of the World in the Pacific Northwest, 1905-1924
Never Justice, Never Peace: Mother Jones and the Miner Rebellion at Paint and Cabin Creeks
Reconsidering Southern Labor History
Race, Class, and Power
The Constant Liberal
Pierre Trudeau, Organized Labour, and the Canadian Social Democratic Left
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.
Defying Expectations
The Case of UFCW Local 401
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.
The Deindustrialized World
Confronting Ruination in Postindustrial Places
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.