Unions, Equity, and the Path to Renewal


Janice R. Foley and Patricia L. Baker (eds.)

Unions, Equity, and the Path to Renewal brings together a distinguished group of union activists and equity scholars to document how traditional union cultures, practices, and structures have eroded solidarity and activism and created an equity deficit in Canadian unions.

This volume highlights the central role that equity issues should play in debates on union renewal. It is mandatory reading for students, practitioners, and activists in industrial relations and labour and women’s studies or for anyone interested in the future of labour and unions in Canada and abroad. read more

Contributing Citizens
Modern Charitable Fundraising and the Making of the Welfare State, 1920-66

Shirley Tillotson

Contributing Citizens tells the social, cultural, and political history of Community Chests, the forerunners of today’s United Way, to provide a unique perspective on the evolution of professional fundraising, private charity, and the development of the welfare state.
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The Business of Women
Marriage, Family, and Entrepreneurship in British Columbia, 1901-51


Melanie Buddle

Women throughout history have inhabited a conceptual space divorced from the world of business. Historians and social commentators have consequently tended to overlook the experiences of women entrepreneurs. Who were these women? What types of businesses did they establish? And how did they justify their work outside the home?
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