Ph.D., 1994, University of Toronto/OISE
M.E.S., 1987, York University
B.A., 1978, University of Western Ontario
Research Interests:
Canadian labour history, social movement history, history of dissent and repression, history of the Canadian left, women's history, consumer and food history
Teaching Areas:
Canadian labour history, Canadian social history, public policy on labour issues, labour unions and labour relations, sweatshops and anti-sweatshop movements
Books:
2019 Radical Housewives: Price Wars and Food Politics in Mid-Twentieth Century Canada. University of Toronto Press.
Edited Books:
2009 with Wayne Antony. Bankruptcies and Bailouts, Halifax and Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing.
Articles in Journals:
2012 with D'Arcy Martin, Laurie McGauley, Mercedes Steedman, and Jorge Garcia-Orgales. "Art as Activism: Empowering Workers and Reviving Unions through Popular Theatre." Labor Studies Journal volume 37 issue 2 (June): 163-182. DO1 10.1177/0160449X11431895
2010 "A Mighty Power against the Cost of Living: Canadian Housewives Organize in the 1930s." International Labor and Working-Class History (spring), vol. 77, no. 1: 27-47.
2007 with Mercedes Steedman and Jorge Garcia-Orgales. “Organizing the Electronic Sweatshop: Rank-and-File Participation in Canada’s Steel Union,” LABOR: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, volume 4, issue 3 (fall): 9-31.
2004 "Making the Scholarship Political: Ruth Roach Pierson’s Feminist Pedagogy.” Atlantis: A Women’s Studies Journal, special issue two: 68-71.
2004 “Authenticity on the Line: Women Workers, Native ‘Scabs,’ and the Multi-Ethnic Politics of Identity in a Left-led Strike in Cold War Canada.” Journal of Women's History, special issue on Women's Labors, vol. 15 no. 4 (winter): 117-140.
1996. "Fair Play or Fair Pay? Gender Relations, Class Consciousness, and Union Solidarity in the Canadian UE, 1949 to 1955." Labour/le travail 37 (Spring): 149-177. (awarded Hilda Neatby Prize, 1997).
Chapters in Books:
2020 “Austerity Politics and Anti-Union Animus: Organized Labour in the Pandemic.” In COVID-19 in Manitoba: Public Policy Responses to the First Wave. 62-71. Andrea Rounce and Karine Levasseur, eds. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press.
2017 "Canada's Citizen Housewives: Cold War Anticommunism and the Limits of Maternalism." In Shopping for Change: Consumer Activism in North American History, edited by Louis Hyman and Joseph Tohill,. Cornell University Press and Between the Lines.
2016 "The Politics of Milk: Canadian Housewives Organize in the 1930s." In Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History, 7th edition, edited by Adele Perry, Tamara Myers, and Lara Campbell. Oxford University Press (Canada).
2016 "Canadian Citizens or Dangerous Foreign Women: Canada's Radical Consumer Movement, 1947-1950." In Sisters or Strangers? Immigrant, Ethnic and Racialized Women in Canadian History 2nd edition, edited by Marlene Epp and Franca Lacovetta. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
2012 "The Politics of Milk: Canadian Housewives Organize in the 1930s." In Edible Histories, Cultural Politics: Towards a Canadian Food History. Eds. Franca Iacovetta, Valerie j. Korinek and Marlene Epp. University of Toronto Press: 271-85.
2007 “Can Call Centres Contribute to Manitoba’s Community Economic Development?” John Loxley, Jim Silver and Kathleen Sexsmith, eds. Doing Community Economic Development. Halifax and Winnipeg: Fernwood/Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. 123-135.
2006 with Jorge Garcia-Orgales, Mercedes Steedman, and D’Arcy Martin. "Organizing Call Centres: The Steelworkers' Experience." In Pradeep Kumar and Christopher Schenk, eds. Paths to Union Renewal: Canadian Experiences. Toronto: Broadview Press: 277-292.
2004 "Canadian Citizens or Dangerous Foreign Women? Canada's Radical Consumer Movement, 1947-1950." In Marlene Epp, Franca Iacovetta and Frances Swyripa, eds., Sisters or Strangers? Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press: 161-189.
2000 "Women Worth Watching: Radical Housewives in Cold War Canada." In D. Buse, G. Kinsman, and M. Steedman, eds., Whose National Security? Canadian State Surveillance and the Creation of Enemies. Toronto: Between the Lines: 73-88.
1996 “Womanly Innocence and Manly Self-Respect: Gendered Challenges to Labour’s Postwar Compromise.” In Cy Gonick, Paul Phillips, and Jesse Vorst, eds., Labour Gains, Labour Pains: Fifty Years of PC 1003. Winnipeg: Society for Socialist Studies: 119-137.
1990 "Dealing with Difference: Power in the New Feminist Historiography." In S. Kirby, D. Daniels, K. McKenna, and M. Pujol, eds., Women Change the Academy/Les femmes changeant l'academie: The Proceedings of the 1990 CWSA Conference. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Sororal Publishing: 135-141.
Electronic Publications:
with Rachel Gotthilf, Rachel Heinrichs, Brian Latour, Kyle Mytruk, Kim Parry, Chris Rigaux and Zachery Saltis. “Fastfacts: Where Does the Money Go? University of Manitoba Senior Administrators Get Big Pay Hikes But Faculty and Staff Morale Remains Low.” 25 October 2007. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. http://www.policyalternatives.ca/documents/Manitoba_Pubs/2007/FastFacts_Oct25_07_UM_Labour_Relations.pdf
“Training Unemployed Manitobans for Call Centres – A Good Public Investment?” 7 December 2006. Manitoba: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. http://www.policyalternatives.ca/documents/Manitoba_Pubs/2006/Training_Unemployed_Manitobans_For_Call_Centres.pdf
Manitoba’s Call Centre Explosion: A Preliminary Overview. 2003. Toronto: United Steelworkers Canada. http://www.uswa.ca/program/adminlinks/docs/call_guard.pdf