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Temporarily Unchained: The Drive to Unionize Foreign Seasonal Agricultural Workers in Canada – A Comment on Greenway Farms and UFCW

By Robert Russo

agriculture

foreign workers

foreign workers

Greenway Farms

trade unions

BC Studies no. 169 Spring 2011 | p. 131-141

Review

Solidarity: Canada’s Unknown Revolution of 1983

By Bryan D. Palmer

BC Studies no. 214 Summer 2022 | p. 126-128

Cover Image: Solidarity: Canada’s Unknown Revolution of 1983

reflection

Anniversary Issue Reflections – Photo Vignette – Restraining the Welfare State Solidarity

By Robert McDonald

government

protest

protest

strikes and lockouts

trade unions

BC Studies no. 200 Winter 2019 – 50th Anniversary | p. 77-80

article

The Emergence of the Socialist Movement in British Columbia

By A. R. McCormack

political parties

socialism

trade unions

BC Studies no. 21 Spring 1974 | p. 3-27

Review

On The Line: A History of the British Columbia Labour Movement

By Robin Wylie

BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2019/20 | p. 205-206

Cover Image: On The Line: A History of the British Columbia Labour Movement

article

“A Worthy, if Unlikely, Enterprise”: The Labour Relations Board and the Evolution of Labour Policy and Practice in British Columbia, 1973-1980

By Alan F.J. Artibise

legislation

New Democratic Party

trade unions

BC Studies no. 56 Winter 1982-1983 | p. 3-43

article

The Electoral Significance of Public Sector Bashing

By Donald E. Blake

government

labour force

New Democratic Party

politics

Social Credit party

trade unions

BC Studies no. 62 Summer 1984 | p. 29-43

article

The Right to Manage Vancouver Employers’ Associations, 1900-1923

By Andrew Yarmie

business

employment

strikes and lockouts

trade unions

Vancouver

BC Studies no. 90 Summer 1991 | p. 40-74

article

“‘Open Shop’ Means Closed to Union Men” : Carpenters and the 1911 Vancouver building trades general strike

By James Conley

labour force

strikes and lockouts

trade unions

Vancouver

BC Studies no. 91-92 Autumn-Winter 1991-1992 | p. 127-151

Review

Rebel Life: The Life and Times of Robert Gosden

By Ron Verzuh

BC Studies no. 194 Summer 2017 | p. 222-224

article

“It’s the Smell of Money”: Women Shoreworkers of British Columbia

By Jill Stainsby

fishing industry

Gender

Gender

industries

trade unions

women

women

BC Studies no. 103 Autumn 1994 | p. 59-81

article

“Stout Ladies and Amazons”: Women in the British Columbia Coal-Mining Community of Ladysmith, 1912-14

By John R. Hinde

coal mining

Gender

Gender

strikes and lockouts

trade unions

BC Studies no. 114 Summer 1997 | p. 33-57

Review

Common Bonds: A History of Greater Vancouver Community Credit Union

By Lani Russwurm

BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | p. 172-173

Review

French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest

By Heather Devine

BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | p. 114-16

article

“Everybody knows what a picket line means”: Picketing before the British Columbia Court of Appeal

By Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker

British Columbia Court of Appeal

law

legislation

strikes and lockouts

trade unions

BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | p. 53-79

Review

Boundless Optimism: Richard McBride’s British Columbia

By Duff Sutherland

BC Studies no. 186 Summer 2015 | p. 174-77

article

Vancouver’s ‘Red Menace’ of 1935: The Waterfront Situation

By Richard McCandless

communism

communism

Depression

maritime history

socialism

trade unions

BC Studies no. 22 Summer 1974 | p. 56-70

Review

Finding a Way to the Heart: Feminist Writings on Aboriginal and Women’s History in Canada

By Frieda Klippenstein

BC Studies no. 180 Winter 2013-2014 | p. 175-177

article

(Dis)Organizing Tree Planters: Labour and Environment Politics in the British Columbia Silviculture Industry

By Brendan Sweeney, Michael A. Ekers

environment

environment

forestry

forestry

forestry

forestry

labour force

trade unions

BC Studies no. 166 Summer 2010 | p. 73-101

article

The British Columbia Electric Railway and its Street Railway employees: Paternalism in Labour Relations

By Patricia E. Roy

labour force

railways

trade unions

Vancouver

BC Studies no. 16 Winter 1972-1973 | p. 3-24

article

“Everybody knows what a picket line means”: Picketing before the British Columbia Court of Appeal

By Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker

British Columbia Court of Appeal

law

legislation

strikes and lockouts

trade unions

BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | p. 53-79

article

Explaining Workplace Injuries Among BC Loggers: Cultures of Risk and Desperation

By James Lawson

economy

logging

logging

logging

mortality

trade unions

WorkSafeBC

BC Studies no. 164 Winter 2009-2010 | p. 51-74

Review

From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian Expedition, 1917-1919

By Chris Leach

BC Studies no. 172 Winter 2011-2012 | p. 138-39

article

Union Maids: Organized Women Workers in Vancouver 1900-1915

By Star Rosenthal

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

Identities, Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality

labour unions

trade unions

Vancouver

women

women

BC Studies no. 41 Spring 1979 | p. 36-55

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