An Environmental History of Canada
Throughout history most people have associated northern NorthAmerica with wilderness – with abundant fish and game,snow-capped mountains, and endless forest and prairie. Canada’scontemporary picture gallery, however, contains more disturbing images– deforested mountains, empty fisheries, and melting ice caps.Adopting both a chronological and …
Canadian Working Class History
Canadian Working Class History: Selected Readings, is an updated version of the bestselling reader that brings together recent and classic scholarship on the history, politics, and social groups of the working class in Canada. Some of the changes readers will find in the new edition include better representation of women scholars and nine provocati …
Canadian Working-Class History
Canadian Working-Class History: Selected Readings, Third Edition, is an updated version of the bestselling reader that brings together recent and classic scholarship on the history, politics, and social groups of the working class in Canada. Some of the changes readers will find in the new edition include better representation of women scholars and …
Remember Kirkland Lake, 2nd Edition
Remember Kirkland Lake: The Gold Miners' Strike of 1941-42 tells the story of one of the most important industrial disputes in Canadian labour history. This strike united the Canadian labour movement around the demand for collective bargaining legislation, which it won in 1944 and which remains central to our industrial relations system.
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Renegade Lawyer
J.L. Cohen, one of the first specialists in labour law and an architect of the Canadian industrial relations system, was a formidable advocate in the 1930s and 1940s on behalf of working people. A 'radical lawyer' in the tradition of the great American counsel Clarence Darrow or contemporary advocate Thomas Berger who represent the less powerful an …