Dissenting Traditions: Essays on Bryan D. Palmer, Marxism, and History (Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH)

Synopsis

The work of Bryan D. Palmer, one of North America’s leading historians, has influenced the fields of labour history, social history, discourse analysis, communist history, and Canadian history, as well as the theoretical frameworks surrounding them. Palmer’s work reveals a life dedicated to dissent and the difficult task of imagining alternatives by understanding the past in all of its contradictions, victories, and failures. Dissenting Traditions gathers Palmer’s contemporaries, students, and sometimes critics to examine and expand on the topics and themes that have defined Palmer’s career, from labour history to Marxism and communist politics. Paying attention to Palmer’s participation in key debates, contributors demonstrate that class analysis, labour history, building institutions, and engaging the public are vital for social change. In this moment of increasing precarity and growing class inequality, Palmer’s politically engaged scholarship offers a useful roadmap for scholars and activists alike and underlines the importance of working-class history. With contributions by Alan Campbell, Alvin Finkel, Sam Gindin, Gregory S. Kealey, John McIlroy, Kirk Niegarth, Bryan D. Palmer, Leo Panitch, Chad Pearson, Sean Purdy, and Nicholas Rogers.

Copyright:

2021

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

520 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781771993135

Related ISBNs:

9781771993111, 9781771993128

Publisher:

Athabasca University Press and Canadian Committee on Labour History

Date of Addition:

06/15/21

Copyrighted By:

Sean Carleton, Ted McCoy, and Julia Smith

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction

Reading Age:

18 and up

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Sean Carleton

Edited by:

Ted McCoy

Edited by:

Julia Smith