Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH

Series editor(s): Alvin Finkel and Greg Kealey

Labour activism has a long and powerful history in Canada. Since 1976, the Canadian Committee on Labour History has published Labour/Le Travail, Canada’s pre-eminent scholarly journal of labour studies. Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH, published in conjunction with AU Press, likewise focuses on the lives and struggles of Canada’s working people, past and present, and on the unions and other organizations that workers founded to represent their interests.

The series specifically seeks to counter the notion that labour history is first and foremost an academic discipline, dominated by a relatively small and self-selected group of specialists. The books in the series accordingly span a wide range of genres—from oral histories, autobiographies, and memoir to works that document local and provincial labour movements to secondary analyses founded on careful research but written in a down-to-earth style.

Underlying the series is the recognition that anyone who labours on behalf of another is a working person, and that, as working people, we continually participate in creating our own history. That history, which stands as a tribute to our collective strength, should not be solely an object of academic scrutiny. Rather, it is living part of our identity as working people and should be readily accessible to all.

Send your manuscript for consideration to: finkel@telusplanet.net and gkealey@unb.ca