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Canada's largest and most famous example of class conflict, the
Winnipeg General Strike, redefined local, national, and
international conversations around class, politics, region,
ethnicity, and gender. The Strike's centenary occasioned a
re-examination of this critical moment in working-class history,
when 300 social justice activists, organizers, scholars, trade
unionists, artists, and labour rights advocates gathered in
Winnipeg in 2019. Probing the meaning of the General Strike in new
and innovative ways, For a Better World includes a selection of
contributions from the conference as well as others' explorations
of the character of class confrontation in the aftermath of the
First World War. Editors Naylor, Hinther, and Mochoruk depict key
events of 1919, detailing the dynamic and complex historiography of
the Strike and the larger Workers' Revolt that reverberated around
the world and shaped the century following the war. The chapters
delve into intersections of race, class, and gender. Settler
colonialism's impact on the conflict is also examined. Placing the
struggle in Winnipeg within a broader national and international
context, several contributors explore parallel strikes in Edmonton,
Crowsnest Pass, Montreal, Kansas City, and Seattle. For a Better
World interrogates types of commemoration and remembrance, current
legacies of the Strike, and its ongoing influence. Together, the
essays in this collection demonstrate that the Winnipeg General
Strike continues to mobilize-revealing our radical past and helping
us to think imaginatively about collective action in the future.
Civilian Internment in Canada examines abuse of the civil rights
and liberties of tens of thousands of Canadians and Canadian
residents via internment from 1914 to the present day. This ongoing
story spans both war and peacetime and has affected people from a
wide variety of political backgrounds and ethno-cultural
communities, bequeathing a complex legacy for survivors and their
descendants. Despite the well-known impounding of tens of thousands
of Japanese, Ukrainians, assorted eastern Europeans, Germans, and
Italians as 'enemy aliens' during the two World Wars, civilian
internment in this country has not been widely discussed,
particularly in comparative ways. Indeed, there has been a
propensity to sweep these events under the proverbial rug, keeping
them out of the national discourse. Civilian Internment in Canada
brings together senior scholars in the field of internment and
civil liberties studies with emerging scholars, graduate students,
community members, teachers, public historians, artists, former
internees, descendants of internees, and redress activists to
examine the processes and consequences of civilian internment
during real and perceived wartime contexts, ranging from the Great
War to the Cold War to the 'War on Terror.' It demonstrates the
ways in which 'shared authority' between scholars and subjects can
both reshape our understanding of crucial episodes in Canada's
history and bring a sense of vibrancy and immediacy to the all-too
current question of civil liberties and minority rights in today's
security state.
Civilian Internment in Canada initiates a conversation about not
only internment, but also about the laws and procedures - past and
present - which allow the state to disregard the basic civil
liberties of some of its most vulnerable citizens. Exploring the
connections, contrasts, and continuities across the broad range of
civilian internments in Canada, this collection seeks to begin a
conversation about the laws and procedures that allow the state to
criminalize and deny the basic civil liberties of some of its most
vulnerable citizens. It brings together multiple perspectives on
the varied internment experiences of Canadians and others from the
days of World War One to the present. This volume offers a unique
blend of personal memoirs of 'survivors' and their descendants,
alongside the work of community activists, public historians, and
scholars, all of whom raise questions about how and why in Canada
basic civil liberties have been (and, in some cases, continue to
be) denied to certain groups in times of perceived national crises.
Canada's largest and most famous example of class conflict, the
Winnipeg General Strike, redefined local, national, and
international conversations around class, politics, region,
ethnicity, and gender. The Strike's centenary occasioned a
re-examination of this critical moment in working-class history,
when 300 social justice activists, organizers, scholars, trade
unionists, artists, and labour rights advocates gathered in
Winnipeg in 2019. Probing the meaning of the General Strike in new
and innovative ways, For a Better World includes a selection of
contributions from the conference as well as others' explorations
of the character of class confrontation in the aftermath of the
First World War. Editors Naylor, Hinther, and Mochoruk depict key
events of 1919, detailing the dynamic and complex historiography of
the Strike and the larger Workers' Revolt that reverberated around
the world and shaped the century following the war. The chapters
delve into intersections of race, class, and gender. Settler
colonialism's impact on the conflict is also examined. Placing the
struggle in Winnipeg within a broader national and international
context, several contributors explore parallel strikes in Edmonton,
Crowsnest Pass, Montreal, Kansas City, and Seattle. For a Better
World interrogates types of commemoration and remembrance, current
legacies of the Strike, and its ongoing influence. Together, the
essays in this collection demonstrate that the Winnipeg General
Strike continues to mobilize-revealing our radical past and helping
us to think imaginatively about collective action in the future.
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