Annual meeting: Canadian Committee on Labour History University
of British Columbia, Vancouver, 3 June 2008.(MINUTES /
PROCES-VE
CALL TO ORDER
The meeting was called to order by David Frank, CCLH president, at
12:30 p.m.
Present:
Greg Kealey
Jeff Taylor
Bryan Palmer
Mark Leier
Jim Naylor
Dominique Clement
. . .
Recent Publications in Canadian Labour History/Travaux recents en
histoire des classes populaires
canadiennes.(Bibliography/Bibl
Books/Livres
Aubin, Georges. Papineau en exil a Paris, Tome 1 Dictionnaire, Tome
2 Lettres recues, Tome 3 Drame rue de Provence. Trois Pistoles, Editions
Trois Pistoles, 2007.
Ayukawa, Michiko . . .
Jose Gotovitch et Anne Morelli, dir., Presse communiste. Presse
radicale (1919-2000).(BOOK NOTES / REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHIQUES)
Jose Gotovitch et Anne Morelli, dir., Presse communiste. Presse
radicale (1919-2000) (Bruxelles, Les Editions Aden 2007)
LES SPECIALISTES de la Gauche europeenne accueilleront avec
beaucoup . . .
Rob Breton, Gospels and Grit: Work and Labour in Carlyle, Conrad,
and Orwell.(BOOK NOTES / REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHIQUES)(Brief
ar
Rob Breton, Gospels and Grit: Work and Labour in Carlyle, Conrad,
and Orwell (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2005)
BRETON EXPLORES Victorian and early twentieth century ideas of work
and . . .
June Freeman, The Myth of the Modern Kitchen: A Cultural
History.(BOOK NOTES / REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHIQUES)(Brief article)(Book
June Freeman, The Myth of the Modern Kitchen: A Cultural History
(Oxford: Berg 2004)
THIS SOCIOLOGICAL study analyzes the results of an extensive survey
of British women that questioned what they . . .
Elizabeth Dore, Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in
Nicaragua.(BOOK NOTES / REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHIQUES)(Brief article
Elizabeth Dore, Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in
Nicaragua (Durham, NC: Duke University Press 2006)
DORE SUGGESTS that coffee growing, which began its Nicaragua boom
in 1870, . . .
Michel Duquette et al., Collective Action and Radicalism in
Brazil: Women, Urban Housing, and Rural Movements.(BOOK NOTES /
REFE
Michel Duquette et al., Collective Action and Radicalism in Brazil:
Women, Urban Housing, and Rural Movements (Toronto: University of
Toronto Press 2005)
THIS BOOK EXAMINES key social movements . . .
Arvid Nelson, Cold War Ecology: Forests, Farms, and People in the
East German Landscape, 1945-1989.(BOOK NOTES / REFERENCES
BIBL
Arvid Nelson, Cold War Ecology: Forests, Farms, and People in the
East German Landscape, 1945-1989 (New Haven: Yale University Press 2005)
THE IMAGE OF outdated, polluting industrial plants in . . .
Jeffrey J. Rossman, Worker Resistance Under Stalin: Class and
Revolution on the Shop Floor.(BOOK NOTES / REFERENCES
BIBLIOGRAPHI
Jeffrey J. Rossman, Worker Resistance Under Stalin: Class and
Revolution on the Shop Floor (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
2005)
ROSSMAN USES archival evidence from the former USSR to . . .
Dianne P. Koenker, Republic of Labour: Russian Printers and
Soviet Socialism, 1918-1930.(BOOK NOTES / REFERENCES
BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE
Dianne P. Koenker, Republic of Labour: Russian Printers and Soviet
Socialism, 1918-1930 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press 2005)
THIS IS A STUDY of workers in a single trade and their . . .
Barry Reay, Rural Englands.(BOOK NOTES / REFERENCES
BIBLIOGRAPHIQUES)(Book review)(Brief review)
Barry Reay, Rural Englands (London: Palgrave 2004)
REAY's FOCUS IS on rural labourers in the nineteenth century.
He notes that many rural workers were engaged in non-agricultural
enterprises, and . . .
Darren G. Lilleker, Against the Cold War: The History and
Political Traditions of Pro-Sovietism in the British Labour Party,
194
Darren G. Lilleker, Against the Cold War: The History and Political
Traditions of Pro-Sovietism in the British Labour Party, 1945-89
(London: I.B. Tauris 2004)
THIS IS A COLD warrior's analysis . . .
Grace Palladino, Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits: A Century of
Building Trades History.(BOOK NOTES / REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHIQUES)(
Grace Palladino, Skilled Hands, Strong Spirits: A Century of
Building Trades History (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press 2005)
THIS IS A NARRATIVE institutional history by the co-director of . . .
Robert M. Fogelson, Bourgeois Nighmares, Suburbia,
1870-1930.(BOOK NOTES / REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHIQUES)(Brief article)(Book
revi
Robert M. Fogelson, Bourgeois Nighmares, Suburbia, 1870-1930 (New
Haven: Yale University Press 2005)
FOGELSON TRACES the use of restrictive covenants in the development
of posh American suburbs. . . .
Mae M. Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making
of Modern America.(BOOK NOTES / REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHIQUES)(Bri
Mae M. Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of
Modern America (Princeton: Princeton University Press 2004)
THIS BOOK WON the 2005 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, among . . .
Rosemary Feurer, Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950.(BOOK
NOTES
Rosemary Feurer, Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press 2006)
DISTRICT 8 of the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers
(UE), lead by Communist . . .
George Vair, The Struggle Against Wage Controls: The Saint John
Story, 1975-1976.(BOOK NOTES / REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHIQUES)(Brie
George Vair, The Struggle Against Wage Controls: The Saint John
Story, 1975-1976 (St. John's: Canadian Committee on Labour History
2006)
ON 14 OCTOBER 1976 more than a million Canadian workers . . .
Peter L. Twohig, Labour in the Laboratory: Medical Laboratory
Workers in the Maritimes, 1900-1950.(BOOK NOTES / REFERENCES
BIBLI
Peter L. Twohig, Labour in the Laboratory: Medical Laboratory
Workers in the Maritimes, 1900-1950 (Montreal and Kingston:
McGill-Queen's University Press 2005)
LAB WORKERS constitute the third . . .
Mark Anielski, The Economics of Happiness: Building Genuine
Wealth.(Book review)
Mark Anielski, The Economics of Happiness: Building Genuine Wealth
(Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers 2007)
GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT has many well-known shortcomings as a
measure of . . .
Pamela Nowicka, The No-Nonsense Guide to Tourism.(Book
review)
Pamela Nowicka, The No-Nonsense Guide to Tourism (Toronto: Between
the Lines/New Internationalist Publications 2007)
WRITING CRITICAL material which is accessible to the public is no
easy task. . . .
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