Angels of the Workplace

Mercedes Steedman

• Paperback | Engels | Canadian Social History
• In this renowned 1997 study of the clothing industry in Canada, Mercedes Steedman examines how the intricate weaving together of the meanings of class... Lees meer

All Things in Common

Ruth Brouwer

• Paperback | Engels | Canadian Social History
• In the first decade of the twentieth century, a few closely related families established a utopian community in Canada's smallest province. Known offi... Lees meer

Loyalties in Conflict

John Little

• Hardcover | Engels | Canadian Social History
• Despite their strategic location on the American border, the townships of Lower Canada have been largely ignored in studies of the War of 1812 and the... Lees meer

Smelter Wars

Ron Verzuh

• Paperback | Engels | Canadian Social History
• In 1938, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) sent communist union organizer Arthur "Slim" Evans to the smelter city of Trail, British Colum... Lees meer

An Exceptional Law

Dennis G Molinaro

• Paperback | Engels | Canadian Social History
• During periods of intense conflict, either at home or abroad, governments enact emergency powers in order to exercise greater control over the society... Lees meer

When the State Trembled

Reinhold Kramer, Tom Mitchell

• Paperback | Engels | Canadian Social History
• The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, which involved approximately 30,000 workers, is Canada's best-known strike. When the State Trembled recovers the ... Lees meer

Working in Steel

Craig Heron

• Paperback | Engels | Canadian Social History
• In this indispensable study of Canadian industrialization, Craig Heron examines the huge steel plants that were built at the turn of the twentieth cen... Lees meer

The Dignity of Every Human Being

Kirk Niergarth

• Hardcover | Engels | Canadian Social History
• "The Dignity of Every Human Being" studies the vibrant New Brunswick artistic community which challenged "the tyranny of the Group of Seven" with soci... Lees meer

Gendered Pasts

• Paperback | Engels | Canadian Social History
• It is commonplace today to suggest that gender is socially constructed, that the roles women and men fulfill in their daily lives have been created an... Lees meer

Re-Imagining Ukrainian-Canadians

• Paperback | Engels | Canadian Social History
• Ukrainian immigrants to Canada have often been portrayed in history as sturdy pioneer farmers cultivating the virgin land of the Canadian west. The es... Lees meer

Dominion of Capital

Don Nerbas

• Paperback | Engels | Canadian Social History
• In the critical decades following the First World War, the Canadian political landscape was shifting in ways that significantly recast the relationshi... Lees meer

When the State Trembled

Reinhold Kramer, Tom Mitchell

• Hardcover | Engels | Canadian Social History
• The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, which involved approximately 30,000 workers, is Canada's best-known strike. When the State Trembled recovers the ... Lees meer

Our Own Master Race

Angus McLaren

• Paperback | Engels | Canadian Social History
• Was Canada immune to the racist currents of thought that swept central Europe in the 1920's and 1930's? In this landmark book Angus McLaren, co-author... Lees meer

The Dignity of Every Human Being

Kirk Niergarth

• Paperback | Engels | Canadian Social History
• "The Dignity of Every Human Being" studies the vibrant New Brunswick artistic community which challenged "the tyranny of the Group of Seven" with soci... Lees meer

Citizen Docker

Andrew Parnaby

• Paperback | Engels | Canadian Social History
• After the First World War, many Canadians were concerned with the possibility of national regeneration. Progressive-minded politicians, academics, chu... Lees meer

Life in Ontario

Glazebrook

• Paperback | Engels | Canadian Social History
• This is Ontario's story, a collective biography of her people, a history of her development as a province. Illustrated by Adrian Dingle, this refreshi... Lees meer

Manufacturing Mennonites

Janis Lee Thiessen

• Hardcover | Engels | Canadian Social History
• Manufacturing Mennonites examines the efforts of Mennonite intellectuals and business leaders to redefine the group's ethno-religious identity in resp... Lees meer

An Exceptional Law

Dennis G Molinaro

• Hardcover | Engels | Canadian Social History
• During periods of intense conflict, either at home or abroad, governments enact emergency powers in order to exercise greater control over the society... Lees meer

Plateaus of Freedom

Mark Kristmanson

• Paperback | Engels | Canadian Social History
• 'Canadians are not accustomed to thinking of censorship, secret intelligence, and propaganda as a single entity. Much less do they consider that these... Lees meer

Labour Before the Law

Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker

• Paperback | Engels | Canadian Social History
• In this groundbreaking study of the relations between workers and the state, Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker examine the legal regulation of workers' colle... Lees meer

Smelter Wars

Ron Verzuh

• Hardcover | Engels | Canadian Social History
• In 1938, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) sent communist union organizer Arthur "Slim" Evans to the smelter city of Trail, British Colum... Lees meer

Age of Light, Soap, and Water

Mariana Valverde

• Paperback | Engels | Canadian Social History
• BACK IN PRINT WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION The turn of the last century saw a great wave of moral fervour among Protestant social reformers in English Cana... Lees meer

Making and Breaking the Rules

Andree Levesque

• Paperback | Engels | Canadian Social History
• During the interwar period, Quebec was a strongly patriarchal society, where men in the Church, politics, and medicine, maintained a traditional norm ... Lees meer

Make the Night Hideous

Pauline Greenhill

• Hardcover | Engels | Canadian Social History
• The charivari is a loud, late-night surprise house-visiting custom from members of a community, usually to a newlywed couple, accompanied by a quête (... Lees meer