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Remembering “The Dawning Age of Leisure”: Visions of Work, Time, and Technology During Canada’s Long 1960s
Full text linkWilliam J. Bulman and Robert G. Ingram, eds., God in the Enlightenment (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016).
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Winfried Siemerling, The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015).
Full text linkHardip Singh Syan, Sikh Militancy in the Seventeenth Century: Religious Violence in Mughal and Early Modern India (London: I.B. Tauris, 2013).
Full text linkHoward Ramos and Kathleen Rodgers, eds., Politics & Protest: The Promise of Social Movement Societies (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2015).
Full text linkRemi Kanazi, Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2015).
Full text linkElizabeth Hoover, The River Is in Us: Fighting Toxins in a Mohawk Community (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017).
Full text linkElizabeth Mancke, Jerry Bannister, Denis McKim, and Scott W. See, eds. Violence, Order, and Unrest: A History of British North America, 1749–1876 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019).
Full text linkLabouring for Citizenship
Full text linkThis article draws from the lessons of the Mexican-American labour movement’s internal conflict during the twentieth century about how to respond to new co-ethnic migration to consider what new immigrants and citizens owe to one another as workers in the current US immigration reform debate. For much of the twentieth century, Mexican-Americans were divided about how the US government should respond to new unauthorized and temporary legal immigration from Mexico. Though their class interests diverged, Mexican-American business and union leaders joined forces to lobby for border security and increased immigration enforcement. During the same period, progressive Mexican-American labour leaders advanced a countervailing message of transnational solidarity between newcomers and their settled immigrant compatriots. They further demanded that all Americans recognize the earned citizenship of immigrants who contributed to their families, communities and adopted nation through their labour