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Author : Ian McKay
Publisher : Between The Lines
ISBN 13 : 1896357970
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (963 download)
Download or read book Rebels, Reds, Radicals written by Ian McKay and published by Between The Lines. This book was released on 2005 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging introduction to the vibrant history of the political left in Canada
Author : Leslie Fishbein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Rebels in Bohemia written by Leslie Fishbein and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebels in Bohemia: The Radicals of The Masses, 1911-1917
Author : David Bell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910170632
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Reds, Rebels and Radicals written by David Bell and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julie Guard
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 148751476X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Radical Housewives written by Julie Guard and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radical Housewives is a history of Canada’s Housewives Consumers Association. This association was a community-based women’s organization with ties to the communist and social democratic left that, from 1937 until the early 1950s, led a broadly based popular movement for state control of prices and made other far-reaching demands on the state. As radical consumer activists, the Housewives engaged in gender-transgressive political activism that challenged the government to protect consumers’ interests rather than just those of business while popularizing socialist solutions to the economic crises of the Great Depression and the immediate postwar years. Julie Guard's exhaustive research, including archival research and interviews with twelve former Housewives, recovers a history of women’s social justice activism in an era often considered dormant and adds a Canadian dimension to the history of politicized consumerism and of politicized materialism. Radical Housewives reinterprets the view of postwar Canada as economically prosperous and reveals the left’s role in the origins of the food security movement.
Author : Michel Ducharme
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802098827
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Liberalism and Hegemony written by Michel Ducharme and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected here explore the possibilities and limits presented by "The Liberal Order Framework" for various segments of Canadian history, and within them, the paramount influence of liberalism throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is debated in various contexts.
Author : Joan Sangster
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
ISBN 13 : 1926836189
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Through Feminist Eyes written by Joan Sangster and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Through Feminist Eyes gathers in one volume the most incisive and insightful essays written to date by the distinguished Canadian historian Joan Sangster. To the original essays, Sangster has added reflective introductory discussions that situate her earlier work in the context of developing theory and debate. Sangster has also supplied an introduction to the collection in which she reflects on the themes and theoretical orientations that have shaped the writing of women's history over the past thirty years. Approaching her subject matter from an array of interpretive frameworks that engage questions of gender, class, colonialism, politics, and labour, Sangster explores the lived experience of women in a variety of specific historical settings. In so doing, she sheds new light on issues that have sparked much debate among feminist historians and offers a thoughtful overview of the evolution of women's history in Canada."--Pub. desc.
Author : Doctor Alex Khasnabish
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1780329040
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Radical Imagination written by Doctor Alex Khasnabish and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of the imagination is as evocative as it is elusive. Not only does the imagination allow us to project ourselves beyond our own immediate space and time, it also allows us to envision the future, as individuals and as collectives. The radical imagination, then, is that spark of difference, desire and discontent that can be fanned into the flames of social change. Yet what precisely is the imagination and what might make it ‘radical’? How can it be fostered and cultivated? How can it be studied and what are the possibilities and risks of doing so? This book seeks to answer these questions at a crucial time. As we enter into a new cycle of struggles marked by a worldwide crisis of social reproduction, scholar-activists Max Haiven and Alex Khasnabish explore the processes and possibilities for cultivating the radical imagination in dark times. A lively and crucial intervention in radical politics, social research and social change, and the collective visions and cultures that inspire them.
Author : Bart Vautour
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1771120487
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Public Poetics written by Bart Vautour and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Poetics is a collection of essays and poems that address some of the most pressing issues of the discipline in the twenty-first century. The collection brings together fifteen original essays addressing “publics,” “poetry,” and “poetics” from the situated space of Canada while simultaneously troubling the notion of the nation as a stable term. It asks hard questions about who and what count as “publics” in Canada. Critical essays stand alongside poetry as visual and editorial reminders of the cross-pollination required in thinking through both poetry and poetics. Public Poetics is divided into three thematic sections. The first contains essays surveying poetics in the present moment through the lens of the public/private divide, systematic racism in Canada, the counterpublic, feminist poetics, and Canadian innovations on postmodern poetics. The second section contains author-specific studies of public poets. The final section contains essays that use innovative renderings of “poetics” as a means of articulating alternative communities and practices. Each section is paired with a collection of original poetry by ten contemporary Canadian poets. This collection attends to the changing landscape of critical discourse around poetry and poetics in Canada, and will be of use to teachers and students of poetry and poetics.
Author : Michel S. Beaulieu
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774820047
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Labour at the Lakehead written by Michel S. Beaulieu and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-05-07 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early twentieth century, politicians singled out the Lakehead as a breeding ground for radical labour politics. Michel S. Beaulieu returns northern Ontario to its rightful place as a birthplace of leftism in Canada by exposing the conditions that gave rise to an array of left-wing organizations. Cultural ties among workers helped bring left-wing ideas to Canada, but ethnicity weakened the left as each group developed a distinctive vocabulary of socialism and as Anglo-Celtic workers defended their privileges against Finns, Ukrainians, and Italians. At the Lakehead, ethnic difference often outweighed class solidarity at the cost of a stronger labour movement for Canada.
Author : Bryan Palmer
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442693355
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Canada's 1960s written by Bryan Palmer and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-03-29 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebellious youth, the Cold War, New Left radicalism, Pierre Trudeau, Red Power, Quebec's call for Revolution, Marshall McLuhan: these are just some of the major forces and figures that come to mind at the slightest mention of the 1960s in Canada. Focusing on the major movements and personalities of the time, as well as the lasting influence of the period, Canada's 1960s examines the legacy of this rebellious decade's impact on contemporary notions of Canadian identity. Bryan D. Palmer demonstrates how after massive postwar immigration, new political movements, and at times violent protest, Canada could no longer be viewed in the old ways. National identity, long rooted in notions of Canada as a white settler Dominion of the North, marked profoundly by its origins as part of the British Empire, had become unsettled. Concerned with how Canadians entered the Sixties relatively secure in their national identities, Palmer explores the forces that contributed to the post-1970 uncertainty about what it is to be Canadian. Tracing the significance of dissent and upheaval among youth, trade unionists, university students, Native peoples, and Quebecois, Palmer shows how the Sixties ended the entrenched, nineteenth-century notions of Canada. The irony of this rebellious era, however, was that while it promised so much in the way of change, it failed to provide a new understanding of Canadian national identity. A compelling and highly accessible work of interpretive history, Canada's 1960s is the book of the decade about an era many regard as the most turbulent and significant since the years of the Great Depression and World War II.
Author : Jessica Squires
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 077482526X
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Building Sanctuary written by Jessica Squires and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada enjoys a reputation as a peaceable kingdom and a refuge from militarism.Yet Canadians during the Vietnam War era met American war resisters not with open arms but with political obstacles and public resistance, and the border remained closed to what were then called “draft dodgers” and “deserters.” Between 1965 and 1973, a small but active cadre of Canadian antiwar groups and peace activists launched campaigns to open the border. Jessica Squires tells their story, often in their own words. Interviews and government documents reveal that although these groups ultimately met with success – in the process shaping Canadian identity and Canada’s relationship with the United States – they had to overcome state surveillance and resistance from police, politicians, and bureaucrats. Building Sanctuary not only brings to light overlooked links between the anti-draft movement and Canadian immigration policy – it challenges cherished notions about Canadian identity and Canada in the 1960s.
Author : Sirvan Karimi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487510969
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Welfare State written by Sirvan Karimi and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-01-18 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neoliberal calls for welfare state reforms, especially cuts to public pensions, are a contentious issue for employees, employers, and national governments across the western world. But what are the underlying factors that have shaped the response to these pressures in Canada and Australia? In Beyond the Welfare State, Sirvan Karimi utilizes a synthesis of Marxian class analysis and the power resources model to provide an analytical foundation for the divergent pattern of public pension systems in Canada and Australia. Karimi reveals that the postwar social contract in Australia was market-based and more conducive to the privatization of retirement income. In Canada, the social contract emphasized income redistribution that resulted in strengthening the link between the state and the citizen. By shedding light on the impact of national settings on public pension systems, Beyond the Welfare State introduces new conceptual tools to aid our understanding of the welfare state at a time when it is increasingly under threat.
Author : Benjamin Isitt
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442641940
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Militant Minority written by Benjamin Isitt and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Militant Minority tells the compelling story of British Columbia workers who sustained a left tradition during the bleakest days of the Cold War. Through their continuing activism on issues from the politics of timber licenses to global questions of war and peace, these workers bridged the transition from an Old to a New Left. In the late 1950s, half of B.C.'s workers belonged to unions, but the promise of postwar collective bargaining spawned disillusionment tied to inflation and automation. A new working class that was educated, white collar, and increasingly rebellious shifted the locus of activism from the Communist Party and Co-operative Commonwealth Federation to the newly formed New Democratic Party, which was elected in 1972. Grounded in archival research and oral history, Militant Minority provides a valuable case study of one of the most organized and independent working classes in North America, during a period of ideological tension and unprecedented material advance.
Author : Bruce Douville
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228007267
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Uncomfortable Pew written by Bruce Douville and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Uncomfortable Pew Bruce Douville explores the relationship between Christianity and the New Left in English Canada from 1959 to 1975. Focusing primarily on Toronto, he examines the impact that left-wing student radicalism had on Canada's largest Christian denominations, and the role that Christianity played in shaping Canada’s New Left. Based on extensive archival research and oral interviews, this study reconstructs the social and intellectual worlds of young radicals who saw themselves as part of both the church and the revolution. Douville looks at major communities of faith and action, including the Student Christian Movement, Kairos, and the Latin American Working Group, and explains what made these and other groups effective incubators for left-wing student activism. He also sheds light on Canada's Roman Catholic, Anglican, and United churches and the ways that progressive older Christians engaged with radical youth and the issues that concerned them, including the Vietnam War, anti-imperialism around the globe, women’s liberation, and gay liberation. Challenging the idea that the New Left was atheistic and secular, The Uncomfortable Pew reveals that many young activists began their careers in student Christian organizations, and these religious and social movements deeply influenced each other. While the era was one of crisis and decline for leading Canadian churches, Douville shows how Christianity retained an important measure of influence during a period of radical social change.
Author : Ian McKay
Publisher : Between the Lines
ISBN 13 : 1926662334
Total Pages : 733 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (266 download)
Download or read book Reasoning Otherwise written by Ian McKay and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reasoning Otherwise, author Ian McKay returns to the concepts and methods of “reconnaissance” first outlined in Rebels, Reds, Radicals to examine the people and events that led to the rise of the left in Canada from 1890 to 1920. Reasoning Otherwise highlights how a new way of looking at the world based on theories of evolution transformed struggles around class, religion, gender, and race, and culminates in a new interpretation of the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. As McKay demonstrated in Rebels, Reds, Radicals, the Canadian left is alive and flourishing, and has shaped the Canadian experience in subtle and powerful ways. Reasoning Otherwise continues this tradition of offering important new insight into the deep roots of leftism in Canada.
Author : Brian T. Thorn
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774832118
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book From Left to Right written by Brian T. Thorn and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In From Left to Right, Brian Thorn explores what motivated Canadian women to become politically engaged in the 1940s and ’50s. Although women in these decades are often depicted as being trapped in the suburbs, they joined diverse political parties, including the CCF, Social Credit, and the Communist Party of Canada. Thorn argues, controversially, that while women on the “left” and “right” had different goals, their activism continued to be informed by maternalism. They used their roles as wives and mothers to influence their parties’ positions and to break down barriers. Along the way, they laid the foundations for the 1960s feminist movement.
Author : Patryk Polec
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773582088
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Hurrah Revolutionaries written by Patryk Polec and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polish Canadians typically identify themselves as stringent anti-Communists, a label solidified by the legacies of the 1980s Solidarity movement, its founder Lech Walesa, and the widespread anti-Communist riots that helped topple the Communist regime in 1989. Hurrah Revolutionaries challenges this common perception by examining the Polish immigrant community in Canada and the development of radical and traditionally "deviant" ideologies during the interwar period until the end of the Second World War. Patryk Polec unveils a versatile, well-funded, and influential Polish pro-Communist movement with a talented leadership that worked tirelessly to persuade traditionally conservative and religious immigrants to adopt an ideology that was anti-nationalist and atheist. He traces the roots of socialist support in Poland, its transplantation to Canada where the movement enjoyed its greatest support, the challenges the movement faced within an ethnic community influenced by Catholicism, and the complications caused by its links to the Communist International. Polec offers a deeper understanding of the ways in which the Communist Party was able to appeal to certain ethnic groups through cultural outreach as well as its complicated and often counter-productive relationship with the Soviet Union. Grounded in recently declassified Polish consular documents and RCMP surveillance reports, Hurrah Revolutionaries is the first full-length study of Polish Communists in Canada, a group that constituted a substantial portion of the country’s socialist left in the twentieth century.
