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HIST 336: History of Canadian Labour Report a Broken Link

Unit 1: Introduction – What is Labour? What is Canadian About it? And How to Write Its History?

Unit 2: Canadian Labour History up to 1975 – The Basic Political and Economic Contours

Allan Greer, “Wage Labour and the Transition to Capitalism: A Critique of Pentland,” Labour/Le Travail 15 (1985): 7–22.
Gregory S. Kealey, “‘The Honest Working Man’ and Workers Control: The Experience of Toronto Skilled Workers,” Labour/Le Travail 1 (1976): 32–68.
David Bright, “The West Wants In: Regionalism, Class, and Labour/Le Travail 1976–2002,” Labour/Le Travail 50 (2002): 149–161.
Benjamin Isitt, “Searching for Workers’ Solidarity: The One Big Union and the Victoria General Strike of 1919,” Labour/Le Travail 60 (2007): 9–42.
Peter DeLottinville. “Joe Beef of Montreal: Working Class Culture and the Tavern, 1869–1889,” Labour/Le Travailleur 8/9 (1981/82): 9–40.

Unit 3: The Problem of Region

Sean Cadigan, “The Moral Economy of the Commons: Ecology and Equity in the Newfoundland Cod Fishery, 1815–1855,” Labour/Le Travail 43 (1999): 9–42.
David Frank, “Provincial Solidarities: The Early Years of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour, 1913–1929,” The Journal of the Canadian Historical Association (2008:1): 143–169.
Peter S. McInnis, “Curated Decay: Residual Industrialization at the Nova Scotia Museum of Industry,” Labour/Le Travail 91 (2023): 169–199.
Jessica van Horssen, “‘À faire un peu de poussière:’ Environmental Health and the Asbestos Strike of 1949,” Labour/Le Travail 70 (2012): 101–132.
Ralph P. Guntzel, “’Rapprocher les lieux du pouvoir’: The Quebec Labour Movement and Quebec Sovereigntism, 1960–2000” Labour/Le Travail 46 (2000): 369–395.
Fred Burrill, “Deindustrialization, Gender, and Working-Class Militancy in Saint-Henri, Montreal,” Labour/Le Travail 91 (2023): 89–114.

Unit 4: The Problem of “Race” and Gender

Fred Burrill, “The Settler Order Framework: Rethinking Canadian Working-Class History,” Labour/Le Travail 83 (2019): 173–197.
Carmela Patrias, “Race, Employment Discrimination, and State Complicity in Wartime,” Labour/Le Travail 59 (2007): 9–42.
Jason Foster, “From ‘Canadians First’ to ‘Workers Unite’: Evolving Union Narratives of Migrant Workers,” Relations industrielles/Industrial Relations (Spring 2014): 241–265.
Allan Greer. “Settler Colonialism and Beyond.” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association / Revue de la Société historique du Canada 30, no. 1 (2019): 61–86.
John Lutz. “After the Fur Trade: the Aboriginal Labouring Class of British Columbia 1849–1890,” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association/Revue de la Société historique du Canada 3, no. 1 (1992) 69–93.
Nancy Christie. “By Necessity or by Right: The Language and Experience of Gender at Work,” Labour/Le Travail 50 (2002): 117– 148.

Unit 5: Canadian Labour Since 1975 – An Age of Decline?

Larry Savage, “Organized Labour and the NDP: Looking Back on Sixty Years of Party-Union Relations,” Labour/Le Travail 88 (2021): 77–112.
Paul Christopher Gray, “‘The Same Tools Work Everywhere’: Organizing Gig Workers with Foodsters United,” Labour/Le Travail 90 (2022): 41–84.
Katrin MacPhee, “Canadian Working-Class Environmentalism, 1965–1985,” Labour/Le Travail  74 (2014): 123–149.
Kayla Hilstob and Alicia Massie, “Artificial Intelligence and Labour: Perspectives from Organized Labour in Canada,” Labour/Le Travail 90 (2022): 223–253.
Peter Graefe, “State Restructuring and the Failure of Competitive Nationalism: Trying Times for Quebec Labour,” in Canada: The State of the Federation 2005: Quebec and Canada in the New Century: New Dynamics, New Opportunities, ed. M. Murphy (Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, 2007), 153–176.
Sara J. Slinn, “Broader-Based and Sectoral Bargaining in Collective-Bargaining Law Reform: A Historical Review,” Labour/Le Travail (Spring 2020), 13–51

Unit 6: A Broader Perspective

Mark Leier, John-Henry Harter, Dale M. McCartney, and Andrea Samoil, “Contemporary Challenges Teaching Labour History,” Labour/Le Travail 84 (2019): 199–229.