The Red Baron of IBEW Local 213 | Athabasca University Press Athabasca University Press

Drawing on archival and oral sources, this study situates Les McDonald’s union activism within the broader history of postwar labour militancy and institutional conflict in Canada. #LabourHistory #CanadianHistory

Additions to labour history archive collections 2025 The annual guide for 2025 to new labour history material in UK archives is now available here on the Society for the Study of Labour History website. Download the 2025 guide (PDF). Compiled by the …

What’s new in the archives: our free guide to labour history accessions in 2025
#labourhistory #archives
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The book cover of The Red Baron of IBEW Local 213 featuring a photograph of Les McDonald during a strike march.

Les McDonald is known for establishing triathlon in the Olympics, but his story began in the labour struggles of Vancouver’s IBEW Local 213.

This new book uncovers his role in the 1966 Lenkurt Strike and the “red” activism that shaped a generation of union politics. #LabourHistory #CanadianHistory

Today marks the birthday of Irish radical republican Michael Davitt (1846–1906), founder of the National Land League and lifelong defender of workers’ rights.

📚 Learn more about Davitt with a selection of books from UCD Press at www.ucdpress.ie

#IrishHistory #MichaelDavitt #LabourHistory

This week the fascinating research of @antoniahart.bsky.social at @glasnevincemetery.bsky.social . Learn about #womenshistory #businesshistory and #labourhistory from the author of www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10..... All welcome. @tcddublin.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social please RT

Black and white newspaper photograph with the large headline “FAKENHAM DANGER WOMEN AT WORK” printed in bold capital letters on the left. On the right, a middle-aged woman wearing glasses, a polka dot blouse and a light-coloured sleeveless overall stands speaking with her hands raised mid gesture. In front of her is a table covered with leather handbags and clothing. The photo is from the WCML archive copy of Socialist Woman, Summer 1972, page 3

#OTD in 1972, 45 women workers at a shoe factory in Fakenham, Norfolk, locked themselves in and barricaded the doors with machines, after they were made redundant following a US buyout of the company.

#FakenhamOccupation #WomenWorkers #WomensLiberation #InternationalSolidarity #LabourHistory #WCML

"Deutlich wird dabei, welche zentrale Bedeutung Machtasymmetrien und Hierarchien für Gewalt am Arbeitsplatz spiel(t)en." #Arbeitsgeschichte #Labourhistory
Rezension zum von unserer Beirätinnen @mareenheying.bsky.social und @nkleinoeder.bsky.social mit herausgegebenen Buch.

Only 2️⃣ days left!!⏳
Meet our panelists and our newly announced addition, Pamela Sugiman (Toronto Metropolitan University)
For Part 1 of our 3-part webinar series!

🔗 Link in bio
#WomensHistoryMonth #LabourHistory #FeministHistory #WomenWhoLead #HistoryInTheMaking

Agents of Fascism: The Rejected Script the Ultra-Left Is Still Following Why does the ultra-left excuse the slaughter of civilians? The answer lies in a century-old script. Tracing the 1929 'Hebron alibi' to October 7th, and the warning the Comintern gave — and then ignore...

In 1929, the Comintern called a pogrom in Hebron a "revolutionary movement." In 1939, they admitted their error and called the Mufti an "agent of German fascism." Today’s ultra-left is stuck in 1929. Part 3 of my series is live.
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#LabourHistory #October7

WCML holds books and pamphlets with important insights into the last year of Malcolm X’s life, drawing on his notebooks from his visits abroad, and debates about his changing political views.

#MalcolmX #OnThisDay #BlackHistory #LabourHistory #RadicalHistory #CivilRights #WorkingClassHistory #WCML

The new issue of Labour History Review is available here ⬇️
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/lhr
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The Changing Face of Factory Regimes in South Asia: The Great Indian Peninsula Railway Workshops in Parel, Bombay, between 1879 and 1939 In 1879, Bombay (today Mumbai) saw the opening of the workshops of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company (GIPR) in Parel, the single largest industrial complex in the city at the time. On a site of roughly sixty acres it employed thousands of workers to maintain the locomotives and wagons that facilitated passenger travel and … Continue reading The Changing Face of Factory Regimes in South Asia: The Great Indian Peninsula Railway Workshops in Parel, Bombay, between 1879 and 1939

racial management of the workforce, and the emergence of trade unions and staff councils that reshaped labour relations far beyond the railways.

Read his blog post now: ghil.hypotheses.org/...

#skystorians #southasianhistory #labourhistory #colonialhistory #railways #historyblog #researchblog
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Down Below Ground: Research, Memory, and Place at Springhill Mine Coal shaped Atlantic Canada’s economy and identity; Springhill’s disasters and mine tour reveal dangers, memory, and value of place-based research.

The latest from the Mining Danger Project:

"Down Below Ground: Research, Memory, and Place at Springhill Mine" by Kaley MacMullin and @drheathergreen.bsky.social

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#envhist #histmed #mininghistory #cdnhist #labourhistory

Vale Rawlings | Forgotten Burton Sto Explaining the story of trade unionist Vale Rawling and what he did in Burton upon Trent, East Staffordshire, UK in the early 20th century.

Who was Vale Rawlings and how do I buy the book about him? Wonder no more. The answers are here - www.forgottenburtonstories.co.uk/vale-rawlings

#Staffordshire #history #heritage #tradeunions #socialism #community #socialhistory #labourhistory

“Too Dangerous a Job”: Forced Child Labour and Wood Collection at the Chooutla Indian Residential School At Chooutla Residential School, Indigenous boys were forced to cut and haul wood for heating, enduring danger, injury, and exploitation under colonial systems.

3) “'Too Dangerous a Job': Forced Child Labour and Wood Collection at the Chooutla Indian Residential School" by Blake Butler - niche-canada.org/2025/11/04/t...

#envhist #cdnhist #labourhistory #histchild #indigenoushistory

Thinking about the Miners’ Strike through lino printmaking — mass movement, private grief, collective strength. #linocut #printmaking #minersstrike #labourhistory #politicalart solidarity reliefprint

Place in labour history – Society for the Study of Labour History The articles below were part of a series in which labour historians were asked to write about a place in labour history that they thought significant, either to them or more broadly. The series was…

Really good series of posts from the Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social , on Places in Labour History:

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#History #LabourHistory

Friendship, Love & Truth is launched The Vale Rawlings book Friendship, Love & Truth, written by Elaine Pritchard, has been officially launched at Burton upon Trent public library.The book can now be bought, priced at £15.99, with all pr...

More details of the launch of my new book are live on the Forgotten Burton Stories website - www.forgottenburtonstories.co.uk/post/friends... #Tradeunions #LabourHistory #BurtonUponTrent #SocialHistory #TradeUnionHistory #Socialism #FriendshipLoveTruth #ValeRawlings

Watch: "Women of the Inshore Fishery" - www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f-S...

Read: "Trouble with Women and Cod: Multispecies Entanglements in Newfoundland and Labrador’s Colonial History" by Vicki S. Hallett - niche-canada.org/2024/12/18/t...

#envhist #cdnhist #wmnshist #coastalhistory #labourhistory

Advance About Us Subjects Browse Products Request a trial Librarian Resources Wha Home > Humanities > History > Social & Cultural History Embodied Labour > Brutally forcing them to work safely Chapter Brutally forcing them to work safely EMBODIED LABOUR A vignette of occupational health and safety at a Polish hard coal mine in the 1960s ƏR By Grace Simpson Book Embodied Labour Edition 1 st Edition First Published 2025 Imprint Routledge Share Pages ABSTRACT

New publication by Grace Simpson, who is fab
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From Left: Paula Kirman, Alvin Finkel, and Donna Coombs-Montrose presenting about their work with ALHI at the Canadian Committee on Labour History conference, November 14th in Montreal. #yul #yeg #conference #labourhistory

Rent Strikes Since the nineteenth century, working-class families have predominantly relied on tenements for housing, with rents often consuming a large portion of their household budgets. There is a long and cont...

Congratulations to Lucas Poy and Hannes Rolf and and their contributors! Their #OpenAccess book Rent Strikes published today. Read and download free at: bit.ly/4nP7e8D #UrbanHistory #LabourHistory #HousingActivism #GlobalHistory

A detail from CBL In 12.19, an illustrated manuscript, known as 'the birth of Kamrup' produced in Murshidabad, c. 1755-60. It shows five women in total, dressed in sumptuous, patterned clothing and extensive jewellery, in various seated and standing positions. The central figure, under an ornate arch, cradles a swaddled infant (Kamrup) and gazes down at him.

Interested in the history of women, workers, caregivers or empire? Do we have the Zoom talk for you!

Join Dr Arunima Datta for 'Travelling Ayahs, Migration and Care Labour in the Age of Empire' on November 12 at 6pm GMT / noon CST. Book here: ow.ly/ZMHM50XeN2g

#labourhistory #migrationhistory

Thanks to everyone who has already supported the Crowdfunder for my new book about forgotten British trade unionist Vale Rawlings.
It's 49% funded in just three days. Could you help?
Have a look at www.crowdfunder.co.uk/vale-rawlings
#LabourHistory #TradeUnions #BurtonUponTrent #YMCABurton #SARAC

#ILO #labourhistory #colonialhistory #globalhistory #epistemic #inequalities

📷 Schutz Group Photographers (Washington, D.C.), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Koloniales Bildarchiv, Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt a. M., picture nr. 005-1120-1.
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Spannend!!
Call zur Konferenz 2026 dieses wichtigen, transnationalen Netzwerkes von Labour Historians! #labourhistory #ecology #power

East Staffs TUC hosts a free meeting Friday Oct 24 7.30pm to discuss the Vale Rawlings story & its relevance in 2025. Lots of union speakers. At Burton Caribbean Association DE14 3JS. #TradeUnions #LabourHistory

Call for papers : Economic Violence. Domination, Exploitation, and Gender Inequalities in the Long Term Naples, 8–10 October 2026 Economic violence is both a mechanism and a manifestation of gender-based violence. Whether acting alone or combined with other forms of discrimination and abuse, it contribu...

CfP : Economic Violence. Domination, Exploitation, and Gender Inequalities in the Long Term
Naples, 8–10 October 2026
Deadline : 15 December 2025
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#genderhistory #violence #economichistory #labourhistory #inequalities

New publication by Dr. Michael Vance: “‘Red Haggis’: A Depression-Era Comic Strip in the Young Worker” in Labour/ Le Travail! #cdnhist #cdnhistory #labourhistory See: lltjournal.ca/index.php/ll...

Catalina Benavente and Örjan Simonson

Catalina Benavente, Arbetarrörelsens arkiv och bibliotek & Örjan Simonson, Folkrörelsearkivet, Uppsala county
"Labour's Memory". Project to digitalise archival materials from Unions, both local and international stories.
#Digikult2025 #LabourHistory