Bryan D. Palmer
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From  NEW! Chapter 25: Capital at Home and Abroad, 1945-60 |
This chapter explains how the unemployment and social collapse of the Depression prompted grassroots solidarities and militant Communist organizing. | Bryan D. Palmer | 19 | 2025 | $1.90 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 26: Managing Labour’s MomentumThe Post-War Settlement, 1945-59 |
This chapter looks at the labour militancy that achieved union recognition in the 1945–48 strike wave and the historic Rand Formula. | Bryan D. Palmer | 14 | 2025 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 27: Quebec in the 1940s and 1950s"The Great Darkness" |
This chapter explains how In the 1940s and 1950s Québec underwent rapid industrial growth and a more secularized labour movement led to landmark struggles like the 1949 Asbestos and 1952 … | Bryan D. Palmer | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 28: "The Mountain Brings Forth a Mouse"The Indian Act and Colonialism's Continuities, 1944-60 |
This chapter details how at the end of WWII, Canada celebrated Indigenous war heroes like Tommy Prince and passed limited reforms through the 1951 Indian Act, yet at the same time denied the … | Bryan D. Palmer | 11 | 2025 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 29: Prisons and Residential SchoolsColonial Coercions, 1940-70 |
This chapter recounts how in the postwar years, particularly after 1960, the rate of Indigenous imprisonment climbed rapidly as policing, courts and prisons replaced schools and reserves as the … | Bryan D. Palmer | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 3: The Merger Movement and its MastermindsCapital Concentration, 1890-1929 |
This chapter traces how mergers, banks, and foreign investment reshaped Canadian industry after 1900, along with expansion in pulp and paper and automobile manufacturing. | Bryan D. Palmer | 15 | 2025 | $1.50 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 30: Arctic AlterationsInuit Relocation in the 1950s |
This chapter discusses Cold War needs in the Arctic such as the DEW line and capitalist exploits that destroyed Inuit economies. | Bryan D. Palmer | 17 | 2025 | $1.70 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 31: ConclusionCanada at Mid-Century |
This chapter outlines how at mid-century the state had achieved labour calm and a certain amount of economic and political stability while it had removed thousands of First Nations and Inuit from … | Bryan D. Palmer | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 4: The Steel Industry, Hydroelectric Power, and Wartime Profits, 1890-1929 |
This chapter chronicles the rise of Ontario’s steel and hydroelectric industries and the role the state assumed in development, such as in the case of Ontario Hydro and wartime … | Bryan D. Palmer | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 5: The West and the Wheat Economy, 1890-1929 |
This chapter examines development across Canada including the vast amounts of immigration that fuelled the resource-based economy in British Columbia and the wheat economy of the Prairies. | Bryan D. Palmer | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 6: Urbanization and Immigration, 1890-1929 |
This chapter looks at urban growth between 1901 and 1931, during which immigrant workers experienced widening wage gaps, slum conditions, and extreme inequality in access to public-health. | Bryan D. Palmer | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 7: "White Canada Forever"Racism and Building the Nation State, 1896-1929 |
This chapter examines how racism seen in the 1907 Vancouver anti-Asian riot was both exploited to divide workers and a matter of public policy, evident in the Chinese head tax (1885–1903), … | Bryan D. Palmer | 11 | 2025 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 8: Deindustrialization and the Maritimes in the 1920s |
This chapter traces the rise and fall of foreign-controlled companies such as British Empire Steel Corporation in Nova Scotia headed by Roy Wolvin. | Bryan D. Palmer | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 9: Colonizing the NorthMeat Schemes and Mineral Extraction, 1914-29 |
This chapter outlines how needs of wartime contributed to making the Arctic a capitalist frontier in the 1910s–30s and led to the lasting dispossession of Inuit, Dene, Métis, and First … | Bryan D. Palmer | 13 | 2025 | $1.30 Add |
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From  NEW! Class War Waged from Above, 1975–2000 |
In this chapter, Palmer examines the decline of Canadian labour movement from the 1970s to the 1990s. Provincial government officials fought civil servants over wages and weakened unions’ … | Bryan D. Palmer | 13 | 2026 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! Class War Waged from Below, 1960–75 |
In this chapter, Palmer describes how younger workers in the 1960s-70s challenged union hierarchies through direct job action and spontaneous strikes. He details how Canadian postal employees … | Bryan D. Palmer | 8 | 2026 | $0.80 Add |
