Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH

Historian Bryan D. Palmer’s work reveals a life devoted to understanding the past in all its contradictions, victories, and failures. Examining key themes in Palmer’s career, this collection demonstrates that class analysis, labour history, building institutions, and engaging the public are vital for social change.

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. Foster shows how the story woven by the local's leadership was an essential component to legitimizing their exercise of power and its unconventional organizing forces.

The Wages of Relief examines the Depression experiences of three municipal governments—Edmonton, Saskatoon, and Winnipeg—and the individuals and families who relied on them for unemployment relief through the 1930s.

Par cette étude pionnière rédigée dans un style clair et puissant, Frank apporte une contribution originale à la compréhension de l’évolution politique, économique et sociale de la province, et il aide à combler le besoin d’éclairer la connaissance que le public a de l’histoire des travailleurs et des syndicats de toutes les régions du Canada.

Provincial Solidarities tells the story of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour--part of the history of working class struggles in Canada.

Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews, Union Power traces the development of the Niagara region's labour movement from the early nineteenth century to the present.

A political and economic analysis of the history of working people in Alberta.

A cigar-smoking rabble-rouser, Whyte was known by many as a most charming storyteller.