Recently added articles from Labour/Le Travail:

In honour of Christiane Harzig.(Obituary)(Brief article)

Mar 22, 2008; Goldman, Emma ... Christiane H.E. Harzig, whose research and writing in the history of gender, labour, women, and migration will be familiar to many Labour/Le Travail readers, died 6 November 2007. She will be missed by her many friends, students, and colleagues. Her loss is felt keenly by her ...

'The comforts of married life': Metis family life, labour, and the Hudson's Bay Company.

Mar 22, 2008; Macdougall, Brenda ... SINCE THE 1980S, scholars have sought to understand how the Canadian fur trade shaped the Metis. Less attention has been paid to the impact of Metis concepts of family and community on the nature of their relationship with their employer, the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC). This article ...

'Living the same as the white people': Mohawk and Anishinabe Women's labour in Southern Ontario, 1920-1940.

Mar 22, 2008; Brownlie, Robin Jarvis ... ABORIGINAL WOMEN have a long history of paid labour in Canada, yet there is little scholarly writing examining their work experiences. Using enfranchisement case files for the Ontario Indian agencies of Parry Sound and Manitowaning, supplemented by oral histories from the Tyendinaga ...

The cultural economy of survival: the Mi'kmaq of Cape Breton in the mid-19th century.

Mar 22, 2008; Parnaby, Andrew ... BY THE MID-19TH CENTURY, the Mi'kmaq of Cape Breton Island, much like the Mi'kmaq on the Nova Scotia mainland, were nearly destitute. The outcome of over two centuries of political, economic, and cultural interaction with Europeans, this condition was exacerbated by the massive influx of ...

'Building the great lucrative fishing industry': aboriginal gillnet fishers and protests over salmon fishery regulations for the Nass and Skeena Rivers, 1950s-1960s.

Mar 22, 2008; Wright, Miriam ... IN THE 1950S AND 1960S, Aboriginal gillnet fishers protested new state salmon regulations restricting access to the industrial fishery of the Nass and Skeena Rivers in northern British Columbia. Using cannery records, as well as letters, petitions, and statements native people made to the ...

The indigenous foundation of the resource economy of BC's north coast.

Mar 22, 2008; Menzies, Charles R. ... THE INDIGENOUS FOUNDATION of the Resource Economy of British Columbia's temperate rainforest is often described as pristine, virgin, or untouched. While some critics may decry the impact of industrial resource extraction upon the landscape, they typically do so by referencing an Edenic, ...

The constitutional right to bargain collectively: the ironies of labour history in the Supreme Court of Canada.

Mar 22, 2008; Tucker, Eric ... READERS OF THIS JOURNAL are probably aware that in a judgement issued in June 2007, Health Services and Support--Facilities Subsector Bargaining Association v. British Columbia, (1) the Supreme Court of Canada (scc) held that the right to bargain collectively is constitutionally protected ...

The saga of History 492: the transformation of working-class history in one classroom.

Mar 22, 2008; Barrett, Jim ... JOURNALS, CONFERENCE PANELS, and on-line newsgroups are filled these days with talk of a crisis (or backlash or decline) in labour and working-class history. (1) This loss of confidence is sometimes linked to the rise of new theories or forms of analysis such as critical race theory, ...

Writing Chinese labour history: changes and continuities in labour historiography.

Mar 22, 2008; McQuaide, Shiling ... IN THE 1980s, THE AUTHORS of most historical studies in China began to move in new directions owing to a combination of internal changes and outside influences. Conversely, studies of pre-1949 labour movements in China continue to reflect a perspective that is largely monolithic. While ...

Forestry workers and their communities.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Robbins, William G. ... Gordon Hak, Capital and Labour in the British Columbia Forest Industry, 1934-1974 (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press 2007) William P. Jones, The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South (Urbana: University of Illinois Press ...

Diversity and transformation within varieties of capitalism, work, and employment: the sustainability of alternatives to neo-liberalism.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Wood, Geoffrey ... Colin Crouch, Patrick Le Gales, Carlo Trigilia, and Helmut Voelzkow, eds., Changing Governance of Local Economies (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2004) Jeffrey N. Gordon and Mark J. Roe, Convergence and Persistence in Corporate Governance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ...

Christopher Dummitt, The Manly Modern: Masculinity in Postwar Canada.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Fahrni, Magda ... Christopher Dummitt, The Manly Modern: Masculinity in Postwar Canada (Vancouver: UBC Press 2007) CHRISTOPHER DUMMITT'S The Manly Modern: Masculinity in Postwar Canada tackles two huge topics: masculinity and modernity. The author limits the scope of his study by examining his ...

Jarrett Rudy, The Freedom to Smoke: Tobacco Consumption and Identity.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Belisle, Donica ... Jarrett Rudy, The Freedom to Smoke: Tobacco Consumption and Identity (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press 2005) THIS BOOK TELLS the intriguing story of smoking's history in Montreal from the late 19th century until World War II. Montrealers, Jarrett Rudy ...

Walter Hildebrandt and Brian Hubner, The Cypress Hills: An Island by Itself.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Wetherell, Donald G. ... Walter Hildebrandt and Brian Hubner, The Cypress Hills: An Island by Itself (Saskatoon: Purich Publishing Limited 2007) THIS BOOK FIRST appeared in 1994. It grew out of research connected with the development of interpretive programming and the conservation of Fort Walsh ...

Henry Kreisel, The Rich Man.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Homel, Gene ... Henry Kreisel, The Rich Man (Calgary: Red Deer Press, 2006, first published 1948) THERE'S NOTHING unusual about Jacob Grossman, the protagonist of Henry Kreisel's novel, 771e Rich Man, originally published in 1948. Grossman is a 53-year-old presser in a Toronto clothing factory, ...

Michael Welch, Scapegoats of September 11th: Hate Crimes and State Crimes in the War on Terror.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Barsky, Robert F. ... Michael Welch, Scapegoats of September 11th: Hate Crimes and State Crimes in the War on Terror (New Brunswick, N J, and London: Rutgers University Press 2006) FOLLOWING UP ON his earlier work on crime, punishment, and human rights in such works as Ironies of Imprisonment (2005), ...

Paul A. Gilje, Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Way, Peter ... Paul A. Gilje, Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 2004) PAUL GILJE APPROACHES maritime labour from a different tack than historians concerned with the work regimens and class relations of ...

Kris Paap, Working Construction: Why White Working-Class Men Put Themselves--And the Labor Movement--In Harm's Way.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Braedley, Susan ... Kris Paap, Working Construction: Why White Working-Class Men Put Themselves--And the Labor Movement--In Harm's Way (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press 2006) IN THIS BOOK, Kris Paap makes a bold and useful contribution to understandings of the intertwining relations of ...

Nelson Lichtenstein, ed., Wal-Mart: The Face of 21st Century Capitalism.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; O'Gorman, Melanie ... Nelson Lichtenstein, ed., Wal-Mart: The Face of 21st Century Capitalism (New York: New Press 2006) THIS BOOK IS THE outcome of a conference convened in anticipation of the entry of Wal-Mart "Supercenters" into the southern California market. There is reason to be wary of ...

Ina Johanna Fandrich, The Mysterious Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveaux: A Study of Powerful Female Leadership in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Bell, Caryn Cosse ... Ina Johanna Fandrich, The Mysterious Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveaux: A Study of Powerful Female Leadership in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans (New York: Routledge, 2005) OWING TO THE remarkable bravado with which New Orleanian Marie Laveaux led her life, literary artists, reporters, ...