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Numinous Animal: Tracing the Afrofuturism of Black Cowboys
Numinous Animal uncovers the hidden history of Black cowboys on the Prairies, tracing family ties from slavery to Afrofuturism. Through a font created from cattle brands, Bickersteth transforms marks of ownership into a language of freedom and love.
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Occupational Safety and Health and Canada’s Mobile Labour Force
A bold call to rethink both how work-related mobility puts workers at risk and how we could better protect workers on the move.
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Safarnameh
Safarnameh is the story of Harrison’s overland trip from Turkey to India, a route taken by millions of young people from Western countries during the 1960s and 1970s. Based extensively on written observations made at the time, the book explores the physical, psychological, and emotional impact of travelling and its lingering echoes.
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Working Canadians focuses on the lives and struggles of Canada’s working people, past and present, and on the unions and other organizations that workers founded to represent their interests.
Cape Breton in the Long Twentieth Century Formations and Legacies of Industrial Capitalism
edited by Lachlan MacKinnon and Andrew Parnaby
The Red Baron of IBEW Local 213 Les McDonald, Union Politics, and the 1966 Wildcat Strike at Lenkurt Electric
Ian McDonald
Dissenting Traditions Essays on Bryan D. Palmer, Marxism, and History
edited by Sean Carleton, Ted McCoy, and Julia Smith
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From October 19 to 25, scholars, publishers, and readers around the globe will celebrate Open Access Week. This week inspires connection and collaboration in the open community and encourages momentum toward…
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