Contributors / Collaborateurs

Labour / Le Travail
Issue 87 (2021)

David Blocker is an instructor in the Departments of History and Governance, Leadership, and Ethics at Huron University College. His dissertation examined the Waffle movement and Canada’s New Left in the ndp and his current research project explores southern settler opposition to the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline in the 1970s.

Peter Campbell is retired from the Queen’s University History Department and living the dream in the wilds of the Ottawa Valley. He rises early to research, write, and watch the deer, turkeys, and occasional pileated woodpecker forage in his yard. As in all good retirements, he has time for hunting, fishing, and splitting wood. He thinks every day of those less fortunate.

Xavier Lafrance est professeur de science politique à l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Il est l’auteur de The Making of Capitalism in France: Class Structures, Economic Development, the State and the Formation of the French Working Class, 1750–1914 (Brill 2019). Il a coédité, avec Charles Post, Case Studies in the Origins of Capitalism (Palgrave 2019).

Karen Levine was a current affairs and documentary producer at cbc Radio for 41 years. She is the only Canadian to have won two Peabody Awards, and is also the author of Hana’s Suitcase, a Holocaust remembrance book for young readers.

Bryan D. Palmer, a past editor of Labour/Le Travail, and member of the Socialist Register editorial collective, is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of 25 books on labour and the left. His James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-1938 is to be published in the Historical Materialism Book Series in 2021.

David Sobel was a student of labour history in the 1970s and 1980s. He co-authored Working at Inglis: The Life and Death of a Canadian Factory (with Susan Meurer; 1994). He retired from the Ontario Public Service in 2019.

Richard H. Tomczak is a PhD candidate in history at Stony Brook University. His research examines the entangled relationships among law, labour, and empire in the colonial Americas. In particular, he studies the evolution of a feudal French form of labour, referred to as corvée in Canada.

Eliot Tretter is associate professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Calgary. He is author of Shadows of a Sunbelt City: The Environment, Racism, and the Knowledge Economy in Austin (2016). His latest book project, tentatively titled Petrocity, explores Calgary’s role in Canada’s hydrocarbon extractive economy and its complex and contradictory effects on the city’s urbanization.

Ron Verzuh is a writer, historian, and documentary filmmaker. He worked with Ed Finn at cupe.