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Alvin Finkel

ALVIN FINKEL is a founding member of the Alberta Labour History Institute, an emeritus professor of History at Athabasca University where he taught for 36 years and the past president of the Canadian Committee on Labour History.

He was the book review editor for the journal Labour/Le Travail for 11 years and is still a member of that journal’s editorial board. A prolific author, Alvin’s 13 books have sold over 150,000 copies. They include textbooks on Canadian history and the history of social policy as well as labour history and the history of the events leading to World War II. On the latter topic, he co-wrote The Chamberlain-Hitler Collusion with Clement Leibovitz (Lorimer 2011). He lives in Edmonton Alberta.

Books by Alvin Finkel

Humans: The 300,000-Year Struggle for Equality

by (author) Alvin Finkel

Compassion

A Global History of Social Policy

by (author) Alvin Finkel

The Frontier of Patriotism

Alberta and the First World War

edited by Adriana A. Davies & Jeff Keshen
contributions by David Borys, Juliette Champagne, Brett Clifton, Catherine C. Cole, Rory Cory, Duff Crerar, Michael Dawe, L. James Dempsey, Antonella Fanella, Alvin Finkel, Ryan Flavelle, David Gallant, Stephen Greenhalgh, Jarett Henderson, Mark Osborne Humphries, Chris Hyland, Kathryn Ivany, Allan Kerr, Norman Knowles, J. Whitney Lackenbauer, Robert Lampard, Michale Lang, Kassandra Luciuk, Rod McLeod, John Matthews, Peter McKenzie-Brown, Sean Moir, Patricia Myers, Allan Rowe, Robert Rutherdale, Amy Shaw, Donald J. Smith, Paul Stortz, Doug Styles, Ken Tingley, Aritha van Herk, Donald G. Wetherell & Anthony Worman

Our Lives

Canada after 1945

by (author) Alvin Finkel

Working People in Alberta

A History

edited by Alvin Finkel

The Chamberlain-Hitler Collusion

by (author) Alvin Finkel & Clement Leibovitz
introduction by Christopher Hitchens

The The West and Beyond

New Perspectives on an Imagined Region

edited by Alvin Finkel, Sarah Carter & Peter Fortna

The West and Beyond

New Perspectives on an Imagined Region

edited by Alvin Finkel, Sarah Carter & Peter Fortna

Social Policy and Practice in Canada

A History

by (author) Alvin Finkel

Our Lives: Canada after 1945

First Edition

by (author) Alvin Finkel

The Social Credit Phenomenon

by (author) Alvin Finkel

Business and Social Reform in the Thirties

by (author) Alvin Finkel