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Brother Max: Labour Organizer and Educator

by Max Swerdlow, edited by Gregory S. Kealey

Class, Community and the Labour Movement

Wales and Canada, 1850-1930

edited by Deian R. Hopkin and Gregory S. Kealey, with an introduction by David Montgomery

 Class, Gender, and Region

Essays in Canadian Historical Sociology

edited and introduced by Gregory S. Kealey

  

 

Cold Warrior

C.S. Jackson and the United Electrical Workers

by Doug Smith

 

 

A Communist Life

Jack Scott and the Canadian Workers Movement, 1927-1985

edited and introduced by Bryan D. Palmer

 

 

Confrontation, Struggle and Transformation

Organized Labour in the St. Catharines Area

by Carmela Patrias and Larry Savage

 

Fighting for Dignity

The Ginger Goodwin Story

by Roger Stonebanks

 

 

For A Working-Class Culture in Canada

A Selection of Colin McKay's Writings on Sociology and Political Economy, 1897-1939

edited by Ian McKay
 




Labouring the Canadian Millennium

Writings on Work and Workers, History and Historiography

edited by Bryan D. Palmer






 


 Lectures in Canadian Labour and Working-Class History

edited by W.J.C. Cherwinski and Gregory S. Kealey

A Memoir of the Spanish Civil War

An Armenian-Canadian in the Lincoln Battalion

by D. P. (Pat) Stephens




 


My Past Is Now

Further Memoirs of a Labour Lawyer

by John Stanton, with a preface by Bryan D. Palmer





 

A Square Deal For All And No Railroading

Historical Essays on Labour in Brandon

by Errol Black and Tom Mitchell




 
The Struggle against Wage Controls

The Saint John Story, 1975-1976

by George Vair







A Very Red Life

The Story of Bill Walsh

by Cy Gonick

The Woman Worker: 1926-1929

edited by Margaret Hobbs and Joan Sangster

 

Workers' Control on the Railroad

A Practical Example "Right Under Your Nose"

by R.E. (Lefty) Morgan; edited by G.R. Pool and D.J. Young