Bibliography of labour resources
Books
Books provide useful overviews of broad topics. They also contain bibliographies that list other sources.
Canadian Labour History
Black, Errol and Jim Silver. Building a Better World: An Introduction to Trade Unionism in Canada. Halifax and Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing, 2008.
Gonick, Cy, Paul Phillips, and Jesse Vorst, eds. Labour Gains, Labour Pains: Fifty Years of PC 1003, edited by Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing, 1995.
Heron, Craig. The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History. 3rd ed. Toronto: Lorimer, 2010.
Morton, Desmond. Working People: An Illustrated History of the Canadian Labour Movement. 5th ed. Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007.
Palmer, Bryan D. Working-Class Experience: Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1992.
Pentland, H. Clare. Labour and Capital in Canada, 1650–1860. Toronto: J. Lorimer, 1981.
Sangster, Joan. Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Post-war Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.
BC Labour History
Brandak, Louise May George, Elaine Bernard, and Mark Thompson. A Guide to Labour Records and Resources in British Columbia. Vancouver: Special Collections Division, University of British Columbia, 1985.
The Bank Book Collective. An Account to Settle: The Story of the United Bank Workers (SORWUC). Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1979.
Bush, Murray. Zindabad! B.C. Farmworkers’ Fight for Rights. Surrey, BC: Canadian Farmworkers Unions, 1995.
Carpenter Pensioners’ Association of British Columbia. Building British Columbia: The Story of the Carpenters’ Union and the Trade Union Movement since 1881. British Columbia: Carpenter Pensioners’ Association of British Columbia, 1979.
Creese, Gillian. Contracting Masculinity: Gender, Class, and Race in a White-Collar Union, 1944-1994. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Diamond, Sara. Women’s Labour History in British Columbia: A Bibliography, 1930–1948. Vancouver: Press Gang, 1980.
Griffin, Betty and Susan Lockhart. Their Own History: Women’s Contribution to the Labour Movement of British Columbia. New Westminster, BC: United Fisherman and Allied Workers’ Union/CAW Seniors Club, 2002.
Griffin, Sean. Fighting Heritage: Highlights of the 1930s Struggle for Jobs and Militant Unionism in British Columbia. Vancouver: Tribune Pub., 1985.
Hak, Gordon. Capital and Labour in the British Columbia Forest Industry, 1934–74. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006.
Howard, Irene. The Struggle for Social Justice in British Columbia: Helena Gutteridge, the Unknown Reformer. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1992
Isitt, Benjamin. Militant Minority: British Columbia Workers and the Rise of a New Left, 1948–1972. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011.
Knight, Rolf. Indians at Work: An Informal History of Native Labour in British Columbia, 1848–1930. Vancouver: New Star Books, 1996.
Knox, Paul, and Philip Resnick, eds. Essays in B.C. Political Economy. Vancouver: New Star Books, 1974.
Latham, Barbara K. and Roberta J. Pazdro, eds. Not Just Pin Money: Selected Essays on the History of Women’s Work in British Columbia. Victoria, BC: Camosun College, 1984.
Leier, Mark. Rebel Life: The Life and Times of Robert Gosden: Revolutionary, Mystic, Labour Spy. 2nd ed. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2012.
Leier, Mark. Red Flags and Red Tape: The Making of a Labour Bureaucracy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995.
Leier, Mark. Where the Fraser River Flows: The Industrial Workers of the World in British Columbia. Vancouver: New Star Books, 1990.
McCallum, Todd. Hobohemia and the Crucifixion Machine: Rival Images of a New World in 1930s Vancouver. Edmonton: Athabasca University Press, 2015.
Muszynski, Alicja. Cheap Wage Labour: Race and Gender in the Fisheries of British Columbia. Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1996.
Nayeary, Kamala Elizabeth. The Punjabis in British Columbia: Location, Labour, First Nations, and Multiculturalism. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012.
Phillips, Paul. No Power Greater: A Century of Labour in British Columbia. Vancouver: BC Federation of Labour and Boag Foundation, 1967.
Potrebenko, Helen. Two Years on the Muckamuck Line. Vancouver: Service, Office, and Retail Workers’ Union of Canada, 1981.
Schwantes, Carlos A. Radical Heritage: Labor, Socialism, and Reform in Washington and British Columbia, 1885–1917. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1979.
Stainsby, Jill et al. AUCE and TSSU: Memoirs of a Feminist Union, 1972–1993. Burnaby, BC: Teaching and Support Staff Union Publishing, 1994.
Sufrin, Eileen. Where Angels Fear to Tread: Eileen Tallman and the Labor Movement. Edited by Wayne Roberts. Hamilton, ON: Labour Studies, McMaster University, 1981.
Webb, Patricia G. The Heart of Health Care: The First 50 Years: The Story of the Hospital Employees’ Union. Vancouver: Hospital Employees’ Union, 1994.
Wejr, Patricia, and Howie Smith. Fighting for Labour: Four Decades of Work in British Columbia, 1910–1950. Victoria, BC: Aural History Program, Provincial Archives of British Columbia, 1978.