New journal article on working-class women telling stories of economic and social change. Gillian Murray, Janet Greenlees and I recorded interviews with women in deindustrialising Lanarkshire who had diverging narratives of survival 'getting by' and social mobility - 'getting on'.

Stunning: the sell-off of the contents of an entire archival repository to the highest bidder.

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What the actual…. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2641379...

The White House condemning historical interpretation at the Smithsonian is something else. Historians ask hard and sometimes discomforting questions to help us understand and learn from the past. If you simply want to feel good as an American, go see an action flic!

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President Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance are committed to lowering costs for all Americans, securing our borders, unleashing American energy dominance, restoring peace through strength, a...

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Very sad news: " @library-archives.canada.ca has ended proactive declassification activities" www.hilltimes.com/2026/07/21/a... via @hilltimes.com with comments from @archivistsdotca.bsky.social / @activehist.bsky.social @archivistesqc.bsky.social @histoireengagee.ca

‘A disaster’ for access, expert says as cuts push Library and Archives to end proactive declassification work - The Hill Times

'It's just another tragedy in the access story,' says historian Timothy Sayle of the decision to axe the three-year-old program, and part of a 'broader pattern of underfunding access to information an...

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A good job in Canadian military history: emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap...

CAWLS annual conference call for proposals - Making History: Workers, Conflict, and Collective Action
Brock University, St. Catharines ON, Jun 2-4, 2027 cawls.ca/en/2027-annu...

Love this story. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Some streets in St. John’s don’t have a house numbered 19. The reason might disgust you | CBC News

One may be the loneliest number, but according to Newfoundland tradition, 19 is the smelliest.

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Congratulations to Dr. Dimitrios Machlouta who defended his outstanding McGill PhD thesis today, entitled “ ‘Underground Intellectuals’? A Connected and Entangled History of Greek Anti-Junta Networks: Balancing Local Activism and Global Radicalism in Montreal and Paris (1967–1974)." I learned a lot!

#Peoples250 Darrel Wekkin, former president of United Rubber Workers Local 19, talks about the day Uniroyal Goodrich announced they were closing down the plant in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. #americanhistory #laborhistory #Wisconsin #america250 youtube.com/shorts/p5uIj...

#Peoples250: Darrel Wekkin describes a day of infamy.

YouTube video by Labor and Working-Class History Association

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Two DePOT project postdocs just landed tenure-track jobs. Congratulations to Dr. Clarence Hatton-Proulx, Department of Geography, Université de Montréal, and Dr. Grace McNutt, Department of History, University of PEI! As a postdoc, Grace worked with Lachlan MacKinnon at Cape Breton U.

Happy to have signed on to this open letter. Unions redistribute wealth -- a prerequisite for shared prosperity rather than simply more billionaires (or trillionaires). www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

Opinion: Canada needs stronger unions, not more labour bashing from governments

Anti-union discourse and policies have increased when workers need strong unions most

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Submitted the index and the last corrections for my new book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class. It's out in October!

Well it's official, I am returning as lead co-director of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. I last held this position a decade ago, almost to the day. I've got plans!

For those wanting a free eprint of my new article: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UTWXS...

Irreconcilable differences? Organized labour and the global politics of deindustrialization

This article considers the global politics of deindustrialization within the trade union movement during the 1970s and early 1980s. The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, which repre...

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HONG KONG: Wage protection fund strained as business closures soar while suspected abuse goes unpunished hklabourrights.org/news/hong-ko...

Hong Kong wage protection fund strained as business closures soar while suspected abuse goes unpunished - Hong Kong Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察

Hong Kong's safety net for workers left unpaid by bankrupt employers is facing growing financial pressure amid a wave of business closures, while government figures reveal that no one has been prosecu...

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An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride

The active suppression of Palestinian voices and history is something to see. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Canadian Museum for Human Rights made ‘error’ in Nakba exhibit presentation, minister says

Museum should change how it portrays current conflict between Israel and Palestinians, Heritage Minister Marc Miller says

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Thanks to @theglobeandmail.com for giving me a little space to talk about a moment in my life. I hope maybe it'll be useful to (possibly give a laugh to?)others with metastatic cancer? share.google/8dRbC0go2heN...

I am still physically fit, but metastatic breast cancer took away my ability to plan ahead

Patients are living longer with MBC but don’t tell them they look ‘great’ in spite of the disease

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Huge congratulations to Dr. Naomi Frost who successfully defended her brilliant PhD thesis this morning on "Beyond Democratic Kampuchea: Transgenerational Memory and Narrative Re-storying in the Cambodian Post-Genocide Diaspora." A very proud supervisor!

Je suis très heureux d'apprendre que la subvention de traduction du PAES a été accordée. Les Éditions du Boréal publieront la version française de Desindustrializing Montreal: Entangled Histories of Race, Residence, and Class.

Six of the sessions of the "(Un)Just Transitions? Deindustrialization and the Environment" conference are available on youtube for those who could not make it to Montreal or who chose to attend another concurrent session. @deindustrialpol.bsky.social www.youtube.com/@CU4thSpace/...

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Engage with Concordia research and activities online and from home.

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Very enjoyable after-conference meetings today with two young Chilean deindustrialization researchers Marcelo Becerra-Parra and María Paz Cid-Alarcón. They are doing really great work!

One of my pet peeves is how the media regularly calls labour leaders "bosses." This even happens when labour unions are criticizing the obscene bonuses for corporate "executives". www.sudbury.com/around-the-n...

Labour boss lambastes Algoma Steel over executive bonuses

Algoma Steel’s executive pay practices are under renewed scrutiny after SooToday revealed former CEO Michael Garcia got a $6.82-million compensation package during a year in which the steelmaker lost ...

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Our week long deindustrialization summer institute and conference just wrapped up - this one focused on the environment. Another great one!

Such a nice photograph of some of my past and present grad students and postdocs at our @deindustrialpol.bsky.social conference here in Montreal. Learned a lot from this gang!

The first day of the 2026 Summer Institute of the Deindustrialization and the Politics of our Time project could not have gone better. Looking forward to day two, starting with:

Congrats to Tom MacMillan whose “‘We Can Do It Ourselves’: Worker-Led Organizing and the Feminist Movement on the West Coast” is recipient of an honorable mention for the W. Turrentine Jackson Prize for Outstanding Dissertation from the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association.

Very much looking forward to the next 6 days of conversations with deindustrialization scholars from around the world about Unjust Transitions. It begins with a summer institute for emerging scholars and then the main conference here in Montreal. It is our project's 2nd last conference.

Right after the big (Un)Just Transitions? Deindustrialization and the Environment conference (deindustrialization.org/connection/c...) in Montreal this coming week, there is a one day symposium in Paris. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Demi-journée d'études "Désindustrialisation et environnement"

Lundi 22 juin de 14h00 à 17h30 Date limite d'inscription : Vendredi 19 juin à 12h00 Lieu : Sciences Po 1, Place Saint-Thomas d'Aquin Porte H - Salle H. 101 - 2ème étage Paris 7 Dans la continuité ...

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Reminded today of historian Christopher Lasch's 1995 comment that middle class progressives fail to grasp “the importance of class differences.”