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        Canadian Social History Series

        The Canadian Social History series is devoted to in-depth studies of major themes in our history, exploring neglected areas in the day-to-day existence of Canadians. The emphasis of this innovative series is on increasing the general appreciation of our past and opening up new areas of study for students and scholars.

        Editor: Gregory S. Kealey

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        Smelter Wars

        Smelter Wars

        A Rebellious Red Trade Union Fights for Its Life in Wartime Western Canada

        by Ron Verzuh

        Price:

        $34.95

        ISBN: 9781487541125

        Pub Date: January 2022

        Smelter Wars examines a radical BC trade union’s struggle to survive from the 1930s to the 1950s.

        All Things in Common

        All Things in Common

        A Canadian Family and Its Island Utopia

        by Ruth Compton Brouwer

        Price:

        $31.95

        ISBN: 9781487525569

        Pub Date: June 2021

        All Things in Common explores the history of a Canadian utopian community, highlighting the roles of family, faith, and business pragmatism in its cohesion and longevity.

        An Exceptional Law

        An Exceptional Law

        Section 98 and the Emergency State, 1919-1936

        by Dennis G. Molinaro

        Price:

        $43.95

        ISBN: 9781442629585

        Pub Date: April 2017

        An Exceptional Law showcases how the emergency law used to repress labour activism during the First World War became normalized with the creation of Section 98 of the Criminal Code, following the Winnipeg General Strike.

        Rough Work

        Rough Work

        Labourers on the Public Works of British North America and Canada, 1841–1882

        by Ruth Bleasdale

        Price:

        $49.95

        ISBN: 9781487521998

        Pub Date: February 2018

        Rough Work is an accessibly written yet rigorous study of the galvanization of a major segment of Canada’s labour force over four decades of social and economic transformation.

        Manufacturing Mennonites

        Manufacturing Mennonites

        Work and Religion in Post-War Manitoba

        by Janis Lee Thiessen

        Price:

        $41.95

        ISBN: 9781442611139

        Pub Date: April 2013

        Complemented with interviews with workers, managers, and business owners, Manufacturing Mennonites pioneers two important new trajectories for scholarship - how religion can affect business history, and how class relations have influenced religious history.

        Dominion of Capital

        Dominion of Capital

        The Politics of Big Business and the Crisis of the Canadian Bourgeoisie, 1914-1947

        by Don Nerbas

        Price:

        $49.95

        ISBN: 9781442613522

        Pub Date: July 2013

        Dominion of Capital offers a new account of relations between government and business in Canada during a period of transition between the established expectations of the National Policy and the uncertain future of the twentieth century.

        The Dignity of Every Human Being

        The Dignity of Every Human Being

        New Brunswick Artists and Canadian Culture between the Great Depression and the Cold War

        by Kirk Niergarth

        Price:

        $45.95

        ISBN: 9781442613898

        Pub Date: February 2015

        “The Dignity of Every Human Being” studies the vibrant New Brunswick artistic community which challenged “the tyranny of the Group of Seven” with socially-engaged realism in the 1930s and 40s.

        Riding to the Rescue

        Riding to the Rescue

        The Transformation of the RCMP in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1914-1939

        by Steve Hewitt

        Price:

        $49.95

        ISBN: 9780802048950

        Pub Date: November 2006

        Riding to the Rescue is a provocative and incisive look behind one of Canada's most enduring icons at the cusp of the modern era.

        Craft Capitalism

        Craft Capitalism

        Craftsworkers and Early Industrialization in Hamilton, Ontario

        by Robert B. Kristofferson

        Price:

        $49.95

        ISBN: 9780802094087

        Pub Date: December 2007

        Craft Capitalism focuses on Hamilton, Ontario, and demonstrates how the preservation of traditional work arrangements, craft mobility networks, and other aspects of craft culture ensured that craftsworkers in that city enjoyed an essentially positive introduction to industrial capitalism.

        A Fatherly Eye

        A Fatherly Eye

        Indian Agents, Government Power, and Aboriginal Resistance in Ontario, 1918-1939

        by Robin Brownlie

        Price:

        $53.00

        ISBN: 9780195417845

        Pub Date: August 2003

        In A Fatherly Eye, historian Robin Brownlie examines how paternalism and assimilation during the interwar period were made manifest in the 'field', far from the bureaucrats in Ottawa, but never free of their oppressive supervision.

        Plateaus of Freedom

        Plateaus of Freedom

        Nationality, Culture, and State Security in Canada, 1940-1960

        by Mark Kristmanson

        Price:

        $53.00

        ISBN: 9780195418033

        Pub Date: November 2002

        The security and cultural policy measures examined here, from the RCMP investigations at the National Film Board that led to numerous firings, to the harassment of the extraordinary African-American singer and Soviet sympathizer Paul Robeson, 'attest to the fragility and the enduring power of art to effect social change'.

        Labour Before the Law

        Labour Before the Law

        The Regulation of Workers' Collective Action in Canada, 1900-1948

        by Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker

        Price:

        $59.00

        ISBN: 9780802037930

        Pub Date: December 2001

        The book is simultaneously a history of law, aspects of the state, trade unions and labouring people, and their interaction within the broad and shifting terrain of political economy. The authors are attentive to regional differences and sectoral divergences, and they attempt to address the fragmentation of class experience.

        Dreams of Equality

        Dreams of Equality

        Women on the Canadian Left, 1920-1950

        by Joan Sangster

        Price:

        $43.95

        ISBN: 9781442659636

        Pub Date: December 1989

        In Dreams of Equality, Joan Sangster chronicles in fascinating detail the first tentative stages of a politically aware women's movement in Canada, from the time of women's suffrage to the 1950's when the CPC went into decline and the CCF began to experience the changes that would evolve into the New Democratic Party a decade later.

        Debating Dissent

        Debating Dissent

        Canada and the 1960s

        by Lara A. Campbell, Dominique Clement and Gregory S. Kealey

        Price:

        $44.95

        ISBN: 9781442610781

        Pub Date: October 2012

        Touching on the decade’s biggest issues, from changing cultural norms to the role of the state, Debating Dissent critically examines ideas of generational change and the sixties.

        Make the Night Hideous

        Make the Night Hideous

        Four English-Canadian Charivaris, 1881-1940

        by Pauline Greenhill

        Price:

        $43.95

        ISBN: 9781442610156

        Pub Date: November 2010

        Make the Night Hideous explores mysterious transformation of the charivari using four detailed case studies from different time periods and locations across English Canada, as well as first-person accounts of more recent charivari participants.

        Remembrance of Patients Past

        Remembrance of Patients Past

        Life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane, 1870-1940

        by Geoffrey Reaume

        Price:

        $45.95

        ISBN: 9781442610750

        Pub Date: August 2009

        Reaume remembers previously forgotten psychiatric patients by examining in rich detail their daily life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane (now called the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health – CAMH) from 1870-1940.

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