By Gerard Di Trolio There are some books you always want to have handy on your coffee table or bookshelf. The latest anthology edited by the Graphic History Collective, Drawn to Change: Graphic Histories of Working-Class Struggles, is one of those books. Drawn to Change clocks in at 200 pages which may seems like a Continue readingBook Review – Drawn to Change: Graphic Histories of Working-Class Struggles
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By Andrew Stevens Progressive parents and educators should be excited to learn that the repertoire of social justice texts aimed at children has been growing over the last few years. Hard Ball Press recently published a new addition to this list in 2015 titled Joelito’s Big Decision, authored by Ann Berlak and Daniel Camacho. This Continue readingReview of “Joelito’s Big Decision”, by Ann Berlak and Daniel Camacho
By Gerard Di Trolio Noted sociology professor and long time labour movement activist Stanley Aronowitz has written a critical and accessible analysis of the labour movement in the United States. In The Death and Life of American Labor: Towards a New Workers’ Movement, Aronowitz surveys the decline and mistakes of the labour movement in the Continue readingBook Review: The Death and Life of American Labor
By Daniel Tseghay Despite the mayor’s ban on street meetings in January of 1912, thousands of unemployed Vancouverites gathered to hear Richard Parmeter Pettipiece of the Socialist Party of Canada speak at the Powell Street Grounds. When the police ordered their dispersal, the crowd remained on the Powell Street Grounds, later renamed Oppenheimer Park, after Continue readingBook review: Vancouver Working Class & Labour History Walking Tours
By Gerard Di Trolio Victoria city councillor Benjamin Isitt has written a detailed account of British Columbia’s radical left and labour movement in Militant Minority: British Columbia Workers and the Rise of a New Left 1948-1972. Isitt challenges many assumptions about the role of the left and labour movement in the so-called “Golden Age of Continue readingBook review: Militant Minority
R&F.ca has launched its Spring fundraising drive. Our goal is to raise $6,660 by May 1, 2015. Click here to find out how you can donate. By Tara Ehrcke It’s been a tough couple of decades to be a trade unionist. Since the early nineties, with Paul Martin’s cuts to transfer payments, through the Mike Continue readingBook Review: Raising Expectations & Raising Hell, by Jane McAlevey