Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I Labour
6. 1 Bryan D. Palmer, Labour Historian 15
7. 2 Bryan D. Palmer, Social Historian 51
8. 3 Labour History’s Present: An Account of Labour/ Le Travail Under Bryan D. Palmer 75
9. Part II Experience, Discourse, Class
10. 4 Bryan D. Palmer and E. P. Thompson 99
11. 5 On Polemics and Provocations: Bryan D. Palmer vs. Liberal Anti-Marxists 127
12. 6 Bryan Douglas Palmer, Edward Palmer Thompson, John le Carré (and Me): Workers, Spies, and Spying, Past and Present 169
13. Part III Politics
14. 7 Palmer’s Politics: Discovering the Past and the Future of Class Struggle 191
15. 8 The Hippopotamus and the Giraffe: Bolshevism, Stalinism, and American and British Communism in the 1920s 207
16. 9 The June Days of 2013 in Brazil and the Persistence of Top-Down Histories 255
17. 10 Old Positions/New Directions: Strategies for Rebuilding Canadian Working-Class History 279
18. Afterword: Rude Awakenings 299
19. Selected Works of Bryan D. Palmer 353
20. List of Contributors 363