Labour / Le travail - Issue 69

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Cover Illustration: Breaking Stone for House of
Industry, Toronto, ca. 1900
City of Toronto Archives, Series 810, File 2
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labour /le travail
69
spring 2012 printemps
Contributors / Collaborateurs issn : 0700–3862
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articles
Bryan D. Palmer and Gaetan Heroux
“Cracking the Stone”: The Long History of Capitalist Crisis
and Toronto’s Dispossessed, 1830–1930
9
Aya Fujiwara
Japanese-Canadian Internally Displaced Persons:
Labour Relations and Ethno-Religious Identity
in Southern Alberta, 1942–1953
63
Laurel Sefton MacDowell
The Elliot Lake Uranium Miners’ Battle to Gain
Occupational Health and Safety Improvements, 1950–1980
91
Reade Davis and Kurt Korneski
In a Pinch: Snow Crab and the Politics of Crisis
in Newfoundland
119
Emily van der Meulen
When Sex is Work: Organizing for Labour Rights and Protections
147
review essay / notes critique
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Matthew Casey
Heterogeneity, Work, and Mobilisation:
Recent Works in Latin American Labour Studies
169
reviews / comptes rendus 187
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index 259
abstracts / résumés 285
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reviews / comptes rendus
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Rusty Bittermann, Sailor’s Hope: The Life and Times of William Cooper,
Agrarian Radical in an Age of Revolutions, by Robert C.H. Sweeny
187
Christopher Armstrong, Matthew Evenden, and H.V. Nelles,
The River Returns: An Environmental History of the Bow,
by Mark Leeming
189
Lisa Rose Mar, Brokering Belonging: Chinese in Canada’s Exclusion Era,
1885–1945, by Andrea Geiger
191
Donica Belisle, Retail Nation: Department Stores and the Making
of Modern Canada, by Katrina Srigley
193
Janet Guildford and Suzanne Morton, eds., Making Up the State:
Women in 20th Century Atlantic Canada, by Meaghan Beaton
195
Therese Jennissen and Colleen Lundy, One Hundred Years of Social Work:
A History of the Profession in English Canada 1900-2000,
by Glen Schmidt
198
Stephen High, ed., Occupied St. John’s: A Social History of a City at War,
1939–1945, by Robert Rutherdale
200
Cameron Duder, Awfully Devoted Women: Lesbian Lives in Canada,
1900–65, by Valerie Korinek
204
Robert A. Wardhaugh, Behind the Scenes: The Life of William Clifford Clark,
by Charles W. Smith
206
Bert Whyte, Champagne and Meatballs: Adventures of a Canadian
Communist, ed. by Larry Hannant, by Stefan Epp
209
Bob Barnetson, The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada,
by Robert Storey
211
David Camfield, Canadian Labour in Crisis: Reinventing the Workers’
Movement, by Wayne Lewchuk
213
Vincenzo Pietropaolo, Harvest Pilgrims: Mexican and Caribbean
Migrant Farm Workers in Canada, by Jonathan McQuarrie
215
Nicole Gombay, Making a Living: Place, Food and Economy in
an Inuit Community, by John Sandlos
217
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Ted McDonald, Elizabeth Ruddick, Arthur Sweetman, and Christopher
Worswick, eds., Canadian Immigration: Economic Evidence for
a Dynamic Policy Environment, by Daniel Hiebert
219
Oscar Chamosa, The Argentine Folklore Movement: Sugar Elites,
Criollo Workers, and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism, 1900–1955,
by Ernesto Seman
222
Janet L. Polasky, Reforming Urban Labor: Routes to the City,
Roots in the Country, by Andrew August
224
Al Sandine, The Taming of the American Crowd: From Stamp
Riots to Shopping Sprees, by Jay Moore
226
Rebecca Sharpless, Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens: Domestic
Workers in the South, 1865–1960, by Laura Hepp Bradshaw
228
Rosanne Currarino, The Labor Question in America: Economic
Democracy in the Gilded Age, by Travis Tomchuk
230
Jon R. Huibregtse, American Railroad Labor and the Genesis
of the New Deal, 1919–1935, by Jeremy Milloy
232
Jefferson Cowie, Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days
of the Working Class, by Ian Milligan
235
William Kaufman, Woody Guthrie, American Radical,
by Len Wallace
237
Jeremy Brecher, Banded Together: Economic Democratization
in the Brass Valley, by Steven High
240
Susan Chandler and Jill B. Jones, Casino Women: Courage
in Unexpected Places, by Kendra Coulter
241
Domenico Losurdo, Liberalism: A Counter-History,
trans. Gregory Elliot, by Andrew Nurse
243
Mary Daly, Welfare, by Alvin Finkel
245
Lex Heerma Vam Voss, Els Hiemstra-Kuperus, and
Elise Van Nedeveen Meerkert, eds., The Ashgate Companion to
the History of Textile Workers, 1650-2000, by Michael D. Schulman
247
M. Laetitia Cairoli, Girls of the Factory: A Year with the Garment
Workers of Morocco, by Joel Beinin
248
Alpa Shah, In the Shadows of the State: Indigenous Politics,
Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India, by Amit Prakash
250
Franco Barchiesi, Precarious Liberation: Workers, the State,
and Contested Social Citizenship in Postapartheid South Africa,
by Alex Lichtenstein
252
Paul Veyne, Foucault: His Thought, His Character, trans. Janet Lloyd,
by Steven Maynard
255
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