Recently added articles from Labour/Le Travail:
Challenging states of illegality: from "Managed Migration" to a politics of no borders.(books on labor markets, global migration, and the political aspects of open borders)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Harald Bauder, Labor Movement: How Migration Regulates Labor Markets (New York: Oxford University Press 2006) Justin Akers Chacon and Mike Davis, No One is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violente on the U.S.-Mexico Border (Chicago: Haymarket Books 2006) Philip ...
The many motivations of Jack Tar.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Emma Christopher, Slave Ship Sailors and Their Captive Cargoes, 1730-1807 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2006) Paul A. Gilje, Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 2004) ...
Coal miners revisited.(coal mining history)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Donald Quataert, Miners and the State in the Ottoman Empire: The Zonguldak Coalfield, 1822-1920 (New York: Berghahn Books 2006) Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht, The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press ...
The ongoing challenge: American workers and unions.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Rick Fantasia and Kim Voss Hard Work: Remaking the American Labor Movement (Berkeley: University of California Press 2004) Francis Green, Demanding Work: The Paradox of Job Quality in the Affluent Economy (Princeton: Princeton University Press 2006) Seymour Martin ...
Robert B. Kristofferson, Craft Capitalism: Craftsworkers and Early Industrialization in Hamilton, 1840-1870.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Robert B. Kristofferson, Craft Capitalism: Craftsworkers and Early Industrialization in Hamilton, 1840-1870 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2007) IN CRAFT CAPITALISM, Robert Kristofferson offers a revisionist perspective on the effects of early industrialization on ...
John Calvert, Liquid Gold: Energy Privatization in British Columbia.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... John Calvert, Liquid Gold: Energy Privatization in British Columbia (Halifax and Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing 2008) LIQUID GOLD IS a lucidly written, compelling book that has the reader wondering, within a few pages, why on earth politicians would so ardently seek to implement ...
Susan Close, Framing Identity: Social Practices of Photography in Canada (1880-1920).(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Susan Close, Framing Identity: Social Practices of Photography in Canada (1880-1920) (Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Publishing 2007) THE MOST REMARKABLE aspect of Framing Identity is clear from the cover. It pictures three women dressed in clothes from the turn of the last century who ...
Nancy Janovicek, No Place to Go: Local Histories of the Battered Women's Shelter Movement.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Nancy Janovicek, No Place to Go: Local Histories of the Battered Women's Shelter Movement (Vancouver: UBC Press 2007) HISTORIAN Nancy Janovicek has undertaken the important task of outlining the history of establishing transitional housing (and services) for battered women in ...
Rebekkah Adams, Glass Houses: Saving Feminist Anti-Violence Agencies from Self-Destruction.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Rebekkah Adams, Glass Houses: Saving Feminist Anti-Violence Agencies from Self-Destruction (Halifax and Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing 2008) REBEKKAH ADAMS's critique of governance and internal conflict in anti-violence agencies is based on twenty years of experience as a ...
Chris Clarkson, Domestic Reforms: Political Visions and Family Regulation in British Columbia, 1862-1940.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Chris Clarkson, Domestic Reforms: Political Visions and Family Regulation in British Columbia, 1862-1940 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007) IN DOMESTIC REFORMS, Chris Clarkson has produced a tightly argued and complex analysis of family and welfare law reform in early British ...
Jim Warren and Kathleen Carlisle, On the Side of the People: A History of Labour in Saskatchewan.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Jim Warren and Kathleen Carlisle, On the Side of the People: A History of Labour in Saskatchewan (Regina: Coteau Books 2005) COMPREHENSIVE HISTORIES of working people in Canadian provinces are few and far between. This is certainly one of the best, and deservedly won the ...
Roland Penner, A Glowing Dream: A Memoir.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Roland Penner, A Glowing Dream: A Memoir (Winnipeg: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing 2007) ROLAND PENNER is the son of an atypical but quintessentially Manitoban matrimonial match: his communist, ethnically Mennonite father Jacob trained as a land-surveyor in Czarist Russia, ...
Vadim Kukushkin, From Peasants to Labourers: Ukrainian and Belarusan Immigration from the Russian Empire to Canada.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Vadim Kukushkin, From Peasants to Labourers: Ukrainian and Belarusan Immigration from the Russian Empire to Canada (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press 2007) VADIM KUKUSHKIN's monograph is an intrinsically interesting read and a much appreciated tweaking of ...
Dimitrios Roussopoulos, ed., The New Left: Legacy and Continuity.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Dimitrios Roussopoulos, ed., The New Left: Legacy and Continuity (Montreal: Black Rose Books 2007) IN RECENT YEARS, the Sixties have attracted a great deal of scholarly discussion and debate in Canada. This became clear in the summer of 2007 when a conference on the period held ...
Steven High and David W. Lewis, Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Steven High and David W. Lewis, Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization (Toronto: Between the Lines Press 2007) MORE MULTIMEDIA menagerie than monograph, Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization builds upon Steven High's ...
Sheldon Stromquist, ed., Labor's Cold War: Local Politics in a Global Context.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Sheldon Stromquist, ed., Labor's Cold War: Local Politics in a Global Context (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press 2008) LABOR'S COLD WAR provides a valuable and timely historical reinterpretation that goes to the roots of the Cold War as it affected the American ...
Peter Cole, Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Peter Cole, Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia (Urbana-Chicago: University of Illinois Press 2007) PETER COLE'S Wobblies on the Waterfront explores the rise and fall of Local 8, Philadelphia's predominantly black dockworkers' union ...
Paul Frymer, Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Paul Frymer, Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party (Princeton: Princeton University Press 2O08) LABOUR HISTORIANS have confronted the issue of racism within the labour movement in a variety of ways. Some look at racism as ...
Randi Storch, Red Chicago: American Communism At Its Grassroots, 1928-1935.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Randi Storch, Red Chicago: American Communism At Its Grassroots, 1928-1935 (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press 2007) IN THE EXPERIENCE of the revolutionary left there are those who have thought it possible, indeed preferable, to create socialism in one country, a ...
Susan Gelfand Malka, Daring to Care: American Nursing and Second-Wave Feminism.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Susan Gelfand Malka, Daring to Care: American Nursing and Second-Wave Feminism (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2007) THREE NO-NONSENSE women are featured on the cover of Susan Gelfand Malka's Daring to Care: American Nursing and Second-Wave Feminism. Dressed in lab ...