Labour/Le Travail

THIS SUMMER, if you hit the Tourist Trail to Canada and your venturesome spirit follows the route of the original prospectors through the string of fabulous goldmining towns that Northwestern Quebec flaunts like a necklace of raw nuggets -- Noranda...

Jeremy Mouat, "Copper and Class Struggle," Labour/Le Travail, 39 (Spring 1997), 277-84. Philip J. Mellinger, Race and Labor in Western Copper: The Fight for Equality, 1896-1918 (Tucson: University of Arizona Press 1995). Jonathan D. Rosenblum,...

John S. Hagopian, "Debunking the Public Health Myth: Municipal Politics and Class Conflict During the Galt, Ontario Waterworks Campaigns, 1888-1890," Labour/Le Travail, 39 (Spring 1997), 39-68. Introduction IN HIS STUDY OF GALT, historian Kenneth...

Michael Quigley, "Grosse Ile: Canada's Irish Famine Memorial," Labour/Le Travail, 39 (Spring 1997), 195-214. Children of the Gael died in their thousands on this island having fled from the laws of foreign tyrants and an artificial famine...

Scott W. See, "Nineteenth-Century Collective Violence: Toward a North American Context," Labour/Le Travail, 39 (Spring 1997), 13-38. UNTIL ALMOST A QUARTER CENTURY AGO, the theme of violence in North American history focused primarily on the extraordinary...

Magda Fahrni, "`Ruffled' Mistresses and `Discontented' Maids: Respectability and the Case of Domestic Service, 1880-1914," Labour/Le Travail, 39 (Spring 1997), 69-97. IN 1887, ELLEN DAY began work as a domestic servant in Brampton, Ontario. Her...

Ron Crawley, "What Kind of Unionism: Struggles Among Sydney Steel Workers in the SWOC Years, 1936-1942," Labour/Le Travail, 39 (Spring 1997), 99-123. Introduction (1) THERE HAS BEEN an impressive amount of historical investigation of class conflict...