Julia Maureen Smith, “Organizing the Unorganized: The Service, Office, and Retail Workers’ Union of Canada (SORWUC), 1972-1986,” Master of Arts, Simon Fraser University, 2009.  Julia Smith’s Master’s thesis “Organizing the Unorganized: The Service, Office, and Retail Workers’ Union of Canada (SORWOC), 1972-1986” documents an important moment in Canadian labour history.  Well-versed in scholarly and activist debates

Arnaud Bessière. ‘La Domesticité Dans La Colonie Laurentienne Au XVII Siècle Et Au Début Du XVIII Siècle, 1640-1710’Université Paris IV – Sorbonne École Doctorale 2: Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine et Université du Québec à Montréal. This thesis examines servants in Canada from 1640 to 1710. Recruited in France or in the colony, this generally masculine

Jacob Aaron Carliner Remes. City of Comrades : Urban Disasters and the Formation of the North American Progressive State. Duke University (History Department, 2010). Jacob Aaron Carliner Remes’ PhD thesis, « City of Comrades : Urban Disasters and the Formation of the North American Progressive State », examines an important moment in the rise of

Jessica Johanna Van Horssen, Asbestos, Quebec: The Town, the Mineral, and the Local-Global Balance between the Two (University of Western Ontario, History Department, 2010). From the late 19th to the late 20th century, the cities and industries of the world became increasingly reliant on fireproof materials made from asbestos. As asbestos was used more and more in

Bruno-Pierre Guillette. « “Le Jour du Seigneur vendu à l’encan”: regard sur la Commission d’enquête sur l’observance du dimanche dans les industries de pâtes et papiers du Québec (1964-1966), »  Mémoire de maîtrise,  2012, Université du Québec à Montréal. Bruno-Pierre Guillette’s Masters thesis, ” ‘Le Jour du Seigneur vendu à l’encan’: regard sur la Commission d’enquête sur l’observance

Martha Attridge Bufton, “Solidarity by Association: The Unionization of Faculty, Academic Librarians, and Support Staff at Carleton University (1973-1976)” M.A. thesis, Carleton University, 2013. Martha Attridge Bufton’s study of unionization at Carleton University in the early to mid-1970s is remarkably comprehensive for an MA thesis. Though examining an understudied subject, her thesis is well situated

Jeremy Milloy, “”If You Want Blood”:  Violence at Work in the North American Auto Industry, 1960-1980″. Thèse doctorale, Simon Fraser University.  Jeremy Milloy’s dissertation is a piece of new and insightful research that examines conflict in automotive manufacturing during the post-World War II period. His analysis is a significant contribution to the literature on the development

Lachlan MacKinnon, “Deindustrialization on the Periphery: An Oral History of Sydney Steel, 1945-2001”. PhD Dissertation, Concordia University, 2016.Lachlan MacKinnon’s dissertation is an historical examination of the multi-layered processes of deindustrialization in Sydney, Nova Scotia. The history of a steel plant formerly located in the centre of the city is used as a case study through which the mechanisms

Julia Smith, Union Organizing in the Canadian Banking Industry, 1940–1980,” Ph.D. dissertation, Trent University, 2016.  This lively thesis examines efforts by a mainly female labour force across Canada to exercise a degree of collective influence on the job, evaluating what factors contributed to success for the few and failure for the many. Smith uses feminist and class

Sean Antaya, “Struggling for a New Left: The New Tendency, Autonomist Marxism, and Rank-and-File Organizing in Windsor, Ontario during the 1970s,” MA Thesis, Trent University, 2018. Antaya’s study sheds new light on the trajectory of the New Left in the 1970s. It focuses in particular on a group of activists in Ontario who entered the

Edward Dunsworth. “The Transnational Making of Ontario Tobacco Labour, 1925-1990” (PhD, University of Toronto, 2019). Dunsworth situates tobacco workers’ labour within a transnational context while analyzing the changing nature of the labour force and work processes over time. Prior to WWII, thousands of workers from within Canada would swell the population of the tobacco towns

Mathieu Houle-Courcelles, « “Ni Rome, ni Moscou” : l’itinéraire des militants communistes libertaires de langue française à Montréal pendant l’entre-deux-guerres », thèse de doctorat, Université Laval – Université Paris 1, 2020. This dissertation examines the little-studied libertarian Communists of Montréal, from 1906 to 1937. Through a collective biography, or prosopography, of over 300 participants in

Kassandra L. Luciuk, “Making Ukrainian Canadians:  Identity, Politics, and Power in Cold War Canada,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto, 2021. This exhaustive study of the history of organizations competing to represent Ukrainian-Canadians from World War II to the 1970s explains why conservative nationalists ultimately achieved “a totalized hegemony” over progressives with ties to the Soviet