Books – Labour Studies
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For a Better World
The Winnipeg General Strike and the Workers’ Revolt
Re-examining our radical past.
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Snacks
A Canadian Food History
A book with bite.
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We’re Going to Run This City
Winnipeg’s Political Left after the General Strike
Revisiting Winnipeg’s radical political past.
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Decolonizing Employment
Aboriginal Inclusion in Canada’s Labour Market
How do we include one of Canada’s fastest growing populations in a job market they have essentially been denied access to?
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Indigenous Women, Work, and History
1940–1980
A modern history of Indigenous labour in the Canadian workforce.
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A Great Restlessness
The Life and Politics of Dorise Nielsen
Dorise Nielsen was a pioneering feminist, a radical politician, the first Communist elected to Canada’s House of Commons, and the only woman elected in 1940. But despite her remarkable career, until now little has been known about her.
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Making Ends Meet
Farm Women’s Work in Manitoba
Based on hundreds of interviews with Manitoba farm men and women, Making Ends Meet reconstructs the common history shared by modern farm women as well as by their mothers and grandmothers. It explores women’s changing roles on the farm, from the early days of the Red River settlement to the twentieth-century farm community.
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River Road
Essays on Manitoba and Prairie History
The prairies are a focal point for momentous events in Canadian history, a place where two visions of Canada have often clashed: Louis Riel, the Manitoba School Question, French language rights, the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, and the dramatic collapse of the Meech Lake Accord when MLA Elijah Harper voted “No.” In River Road, historian Gerald Friesen considers new viewpoints of the prairie past, using the perspectives of ethnic and cultural history, women’s history, regional history, and labour history to raise questions of interpretation and context. The time frame considered is equally wide-ranging, from the Aboriginal and Red River society to the political arena of current constitutional debates.
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