Red Travellers, Volume 6 - Jeanne Corbin & Her Comrades (Hardcover)

Jeanne Corbin typifies the female militants of the first generation of Canadian Communists. Andrie Livesque's powerful account of the experiences of Corbin and her female comrades reveals the essential role women played in the movement. Livesque also shows that, despite some efforts to construct egalitarian gender relations, these women subordinated gender issues to the class struggle. Corbin's "red itinerary" began when she joined the Young Communist League in Edmonton. She later held party posts across the country through her involvement with The Worker in Toronto, a French communist paper in Montreal, the Workers' Cooperative in Timmins, and a lumbermen's strike in Abitibi - where she was jailed for taking part in a protest. She died of tuberculosis in London, Ontario, in 1944. Livesque relies on a wide range of sources, from the archives of the Third International and the Communist press to private correspondence and interviews, to provide a unique exploration of Canadian labour and social history as seen from the Left

General

Imprint:	McGill-Queen's University Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Series:	Footprints Series
Release date:	November 2006
First published:	November 2006
Authors:	Andree Levesque
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-0-7735-3125-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > Biography > General
LSN:	0-7735-3125-4
Barcode:	9780773531253

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