Labour-Le TravailPub Date : 2023-11-10DOI: 10.52975/llt.2023v92.0031
Kirk Niergarth, Charles Smith
{"title":"Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Committee on Labour History, 8 June 2023, Convened virtually from locations across Turtle Island","authors":"Kirk Niergarth, Charles Smith","doi":"10.52975/llt.2023v92.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52975/llt.2023v92.0031","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33140,"journal":{"name":"Labour-Le Travail","volume":" 1187","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135186320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Lawless Coal Miners” and the Lingan Strike of 1882–1883","authors":"Don Nerbas","doi":"10.52975/llt.2023v92.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52975/llt.2023v92.005","url":null,"abstract":"The Lingan strike of 1882–83 was the last in a series of strikes over a two-decade period on Cape Breton Island’s Sydney coalfield. With the use of untapped local sources, this article reconstructs the history of this understudied strike within a broader history of social relations on the coalfield. The migration of labourers from the island’s backland farms – predominantly from Highland enclave settlements – to the coal mines played a decisive role in shaping the era’s new coal mining villages and the character of social conflict. By the early 1880s, structural change associated with National Policy industrialism was eroding the old authority of the coal operators, and miners embraced the Provincial Workmen’s Association (pwa) to advance their claims in long-standing and highly localized contestations. Ultimately the coal communities themselves imposed the emergent trade unionism. The Lingan strike marked a transition to a new political order on the coalfield, structured by the place of the coal mines within the wider Cape Breton countryside and built upon a powerful localism and moral economy that recast the public sphere and the miners’ place in it.","PeriodicalId":33140,"journal":{"name":"Labour-Le Travail","volume":" 1212","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135186443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Labour-Le TravailPub Date : 2023-11-10DOI: 10.52975/llt.2023v92.0014
Heather Devine
{"title":"Larry Nesper, “Our Relations…The Mixed Bloods”: Indigenous Transformation and Dispossession in the Western Great Lakes (Albany: SUNY Press, 2021)","authors":"Heather Devine","doi":"10.52975/llt.2023v92.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52975/llt.2023v92.0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33140,"journal":{"name":"Labour-Le Travail","volume":" 1209","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135186446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Labour-Le TravailPub Date : 2023-11-10DOI: 10.52975/llt.2023v92.0021
Robin Whitehead
{"title":"Constance Backhouse, Reckoning with Racism: Police, Judges and the RDS Case (Vancouver: UBC Press 2022)","authors":"Robin Whitehead","doi":"10.52975/llt.2023v92.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52975/llt.2023v92.0021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33140,"journal":{"name":"Labour-Le Travail","volume":" 1188","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135186319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Labour-Le TravailPub Date : 2023-11-10DOI: 10.52975/llt.2023v92.0022
Camie Augustus
{"title":"Sean Carleton, Lessons in Legitimacy: Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Rise of State Schooling in British Columbia (Vancouver: UBC Press 2022)","authors":"Camie Augustus","doi":"10.52975/llt.2023v92.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52975/llt.2023v92.0022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33140,"journal":{"name":"Labour-Le Travail","volume":" 1236","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135186430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Labour-Le TravailPub Date : 2023-11-10DOI: 10.52975/llt.2023v92.0026
Gregory S. Kealey
{"title":"Ahmed White, Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers (Oakland: University of California Press 2022)","authors":"Gregory S. Kealey","doi":"10.52975/llt.2023v92.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52975/llt.2023v92.0026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33140,"journal":{"name":"Labour-Le Travail","volume":" 1234","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135186432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Labour-Le TravailPub Date : 2023-11-10DOI: 10.52975/llt.2023v92.0030
J.-Guy Lalande
{"title":"Barbara C. Allen, éd., The Workers’ Opposition in the Russian Communist Party: Documents, 1919–30 (Chicago : Haymarket Books, 2022)","authors":"J.-Guy Lalande","doi":"10.52975/llt.2023v92.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52975/llt.2023v92.0030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33140,"journal":{"name":"Labour-Le Travail","volume":" 1210","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135186445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Labour-Le TravailPub Date : 2023-11-10DOI: 10.52975/llt.2023v92.0027
Brian Fauteux
{"title":"Michael Chanan, From Printing to Streaming: Cultural Production Under Capitalism (London and Las Vegas: Pluto Press 2022)","authors":"Brian Fauteux","doi":"10.52975/llt.2023v92.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52975/llt.2023v92.0027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33140,"journal":{"name":"Labour-Le Travail","volume":" 1235","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135186431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adam D. K. King, Olena Lyubchenko, Leah F. Vosko, Andrea M. Noack, Veldon Coburn, Rebecca J. Hall
{"title":"The Origins and Application of the “Core of Indianness” in Indigenous Labour Relations","authors":"Adam D. K. King, Olena Lyubchenko, Leah F. Vosko, Andrea M. Noack, Veldon Coburn, Rebecca J. Hall","doi":"10.52975/llt.2023v92.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52975/llt.2023v92.006","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the history of, and legal precedent set by, Four B Manufacturing v. United Garment Workers of America, a 1980 Supreme Court of Canada case involving an Indigenous-owned manufacturing firm that resisted the efforts of its Indigenous and non-Indigenous workers to form a union on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, a reserve in southeastern Ontario. The employer, Four B, contested the jurisdiction of the Ontario Labour Relations Board and argued, unsuccessfully, that as an “Indian enterprise,” its own operations were a matter of federal jurisdiction. We return to the case of Four B for three interrelated reasons. First, we argue that Four B remains relevant because of the ways that the political economy of settler-colonial Canada continues to structure Indigenous enterprises, labour, and employment as ongoing sites of tension. Second, as the inaugural case dealing with the “core of Indianness” – a contested legal concept used by the courts to determine federal jurisdiction over Indigenous labour – this case both set the legal precedent and shaped the subsequent political terrain of Indigenous labour relations. Third, the issues addressed in Four B contextualize recent jurisdictional struggles over Indigenous enterprises, labour, and employment in what we term the “Indigenous public sector” – namely, health care, social services, and First Nations government administration. The article reviews the case history of Four B, setting this against the backdrop of deindustrialization in southeastern Ontario during the period, before tracing how the case influenced the juridical and political landscape of Indigenous labour relations. We close by considering the potential tensions between Indigenous self-determination and the exercise of collective bargaining rights by Indigenous workers.","PeriodicalId":33140,"journal":{"name":"Labour-Le Travail","volume":" 1213","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135186442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}