Contributors / Collaborateurs

Labour / Le Travail
Issue 93 (2024)

Gilberto Fernandes is a visiting professor in the Department of History at York University, where he is affiliated with the Global Labour Research Centre and the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies. His research focuses on the history of migration, ethnicity, race, and labour (especially the building trades) in Canada, the United States, and Portugal. Fernandes is also an award-winning public, digital, and oral historian, curator, community archivist, and documentary filmmaker with multiple credits, including the project City Builders: A History of Immigrant Construction Workers in Postwar Toronto and the soon-to-be-launched podcast Laborem Ex Machina: A History of Heavy Construction Machinery and Operating Engineers in Canada.

David Frank est professeur émérite en histoire canadienne à l’Université du Nouveau-Brunswick.

Michael Goldfield is the author of numerous articles and books on labour, race, and the global economy, including The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s (2020) and The Decline of Organized Labor in the United States (1987). He is Professor Emeritus at Wayne State University, where he is currently a senior research fellow at the Fraser Center for the Study of Workplace Issues, and also affiliated with the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies at the University of Washington.

Julie Guard is professor of history and labour studies at the University of Manitoba and author of Radical Housewives: Price Wars and Food Politics in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada (2019). She also publishes on recent labour policy in Manitoba. Her research aims to recover the history of women and youth in the community-based communist left.

hagwil hayetsk, also known as Charles Menzies, is a member of Gitxaała Nation on the north coast of what is now called British Columbia. Charles is a professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Born and raised in the settler resource-extraction town of Prince Rupert, Charles comes from a fishing family and worked as a commercial fisherman into the mid-1990s. His Gitxaała name, hagwil hayetsk, means enduring copper. A copper is a form of chiefly property made of copper metal in the form of a shield. This name was placed on him at a feast in Lach Klan (Gitxaała’s home village) that honoured the passing of his uncle, the late Fred Gamble. The name is part of the house of Ts’bassa/H:el and has a long history of its own.

Linda Kealey is Professor Emerita at the University of New Brunswick, where she taught in the Department of History. She also taught history at Memorial University of Newfoundland and was among the founders of its Women’s Studies program. Her research interests focus on Canadian women’s and gender history, particularly women’s labour and left-wing politics.

Sandrine Labelle est candidate au doctorat en histoire à l’Université du Québec à Montréal et membre étudiante du Centre d’histoire des régulations sociales. Ses recherches portent sur l’histoire des féminismes canadiens et des solidarités transnationales dans la deuxième moitié du xx^e siècle.

Chad Montrie is a professor in the history department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is the author of five books, including Whiteness in Plain View: A History of Racial Exclusion in Minnesota (2022) and The Myth of Silent Spring: Rethinking the Origins of American Environmentalism (2018). Last year, he was a Fulbright Canada Research Chair at the University of Calgary, based in the history department and affiliated with the Energy in Society working group at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities.

Bryan D. Palmer, a historian of labour and the left, and a past editor of Labour/Le Travail, is the author of more than 25 authored, co-authored, and edited volumes, the most recent of which is James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in Canada and the United States, 1928–1938 (2021). He is currently preparing a two-volume study, to be published by James Lorimer in 2024, tentatively titled Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Construction of Canada, 1500–2023.

Sébastien Parent est professeur adjoint en droit du travail au Département des relations industrielles de l’Université Laval et cochercheur au Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la mondialisation et le travail (crimt). L’auteur a remporté le Prix de la Loi du travail pour sa communication présentant les résultats de recherche associés à cet article lors du 59e congrès annuel de l’Association canadienne des relations industrielles (acri) qui s’est tenu à l’Université Queen’s, du 26 au 28 mai 2022.

Elizabeth Quinlan is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Saskatchewan. Her research program spans the broad areas of workplace harassment, sexual violence, and labour history. The program’s coherence is guided by the use of arts-based forms of expression as a tool to challenge, resist, and transform systemic oppression. Representing the University of Saskatchewan Faculty Association, Quinlan serves on the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour Executive Council and Saskatoon & District Labour Council.

Reena Shadaan is the Mustard Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Work and Health (iwh) and a researcher at the Environmental Data Justice Lab at the Technoscience Research Unit (University of Toronto). Shadaan holds a PhD in Environmental Studies (York University) and an MA in Gender Studies and Feminist Research (McMaster University).

Mary Lynn Stewart is Professor Emerita at Simon Fraser University. She has published six books on the subjects of French working-class and women’s history.

Veronica (Nikki) Strong-Boag is a Member of the Order of Canada, an rsc Fellow, the holder of the Tyrrell Medal in Canadian History and other scholarly prizes, a former president of the cha, and BC representative on Canada’s Historic Sites and Monuments Board. She has 22 books, including A Liberal-Labour Lady: The Times and Life of Mary Ellen Spear Smith (2022). She has also written extensively on foster care and adoption and served as the general editor of the ubc Press series Women’s Suffrage and the Struggle for Democracy.

Tommy Wu is assistant professor of labour studies at McMaster University. His focus is the reproduction and normalization of racial capitalism. He received his PhD in sociology from City University of New York in 2019.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52975/llt.2024v93.001.