Strikes in History

• Laurence Hamel-Roy and Martin Gallié, Débrayer pour faire plier le gouvernement : regards croisés sur trois grèves illégales dans le secteur de la construction au Québec
• Benoit Marsan, Comment se réapproprier l’usage de la grève dans un contexte de relations de travail de plus en plus hostile ?
• Louis Durand, La triple personnalité gouvernementale et le droit du travail : Employeur, exécuteur et législateur

Chair :

• Kathleen Durocher

Populism, the Far Right, and Union Busting

• Gabriel Gerbaldo and Fernando Aiziczon, Science and the Far-Right: The Crisis of Scientific Work in Argentina and the Struggles for Its Future
• Michael Arfken, Professionalization, Social Closures, and the Struggle for Workplace Democracy
• Chad Pearson, Fighting ‘the enemies of our great country’: Making sense of the Ku Klux Klan’s Anti-Communism in the 1920s

Chair :

• Elsbeth Heaman

Writing Labour History

• Benjamin Anderson, Navigating Contending Interests: Conflict and Cooperation in Writing the History of the CSU
• Fred Burrill, Whither Atlantic Canadian Labour History? A View from New Brunswick
• David Tough, How the fornicate are we goin’ to get our excrement together unless we understand how we got here?’: Labour/Le travail, the Practice of Working-Class History, and the Problem of Class Consciousness in the 1970s
• David Blocker, Activism and Scholarship: The New Left’s ‘Long March’ in Canadian Labour Studies since the 1970s

Chair :

• Linda Kealey

Culture, Memory, and the Working Class

• John Bessai, Labour, Art, and the Canadian Aporia: The NFBC and the Digital Mediation of Working-Class Struggles
• Peter Campbell, Fifteen People at Bob Carlin’s Funeral: Reflections on the Legacy and Fate of Working-Class Heroes
• David Sobel, The Moving Past - A Collection of Archival Films

Chair :

• Veronika Helfert

The Importance of Labour Studies

• Laura Dehaibi, L’histoire et le droit : une conversation nécessaire pour la protection des travailleurs
• Jason Russell, The Countervailing Voice: Labour, Labour Studies, and Countering Management Ideology
• Lorraine O'Donnell, People's History of English-Speaking Quebec and the case of the Black Rock Group
• Corey Orszak, Archiving Fifty Years of Graduate Assistant’s Association at York University

Chair :

• Daniel Ross

Precarity, Pandemic and Digital Economy

• Adam King, Building Back Battered: Workers and Unions Post-Pandemic
• Samuel Pelletier, L’Intelligence artificielle et le rapport au travail : une nouvelle classe ouvrière de l’économie numérique ?
• Susana Ponte Rivera, Le ‘presque emploi’ des femmes immigrantes : avec qui lutter ?
• Yves Laberge, Quelle est la valeur du chargé de cours? Remarques théoriques, sociologiques et postmarxistes

Chair :

• Fred Burrill

The podcast The Asbestos Strike: Popularizing the History and the Struggles

Militant Labour in a Midwest State: Labour Studies in Indiana

• Patricia Linner, A True Friend of Labor: The lasting legacy of Paul Mishler
• William Mello, “This is our program”: An overview of working-class education at IU
• Joseph Varga, It’s the Last Damn Thing We Got”: Union Survival in Reactionary Times

Chair :

• Isobel Plowright

Capital in Struggle: Strategies of Accumulation and Resistance to Dispossession in Canadian History (1890-1990)

• Sandrine Labelle, Chaîne de dépossession : la formation du capital chez la firme d’ingénierie québécoise SNC et le travail de la paysannerie en Côte d’Ivoire (1980-1990)
• Don Nerbas, Corporate Reconstruction and Resistance on the Sydney Coalfield
• Martin Petitclerc, ‘Everyone has lost in the depression except the men with a bond coupon’: la dette publique, le chômage et l’accumulation par dépossession à Montréal (1920-1944)

Chair :

• Jean-Philippe Bernard

Management and Power

• Adrien Bouvet, La place du travailleur salarié dans le régime légal de prévention des accidents du travail au Québec : 1885-1910
• Janis Thiessen, Communicative Memory of the Crowe Affair
• Benjamin Isitt, Patterns of Property Rights, Protest and the Law in British Columbia

Chair :

• Sébastien Rioux

Preserving Our Past and Fighting for Our Future: the Alberta Labour History Institute

• Alvin Finkel, Labour scholarship versus Labour schools
• Paula Kirman, Preserving/Archiving Labour History
• Donna Coombs-Montrose, Bringing History to Life

Chair :

• Sébastien Rioux

Organizing Strategies of the Working Class

• Duff Sutherland, The International Woodworkers of America (IWA) organizing drive in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1956-1959
• Michael Feagan, Work and Network: The Labour of Canadian and American Telegraph Operators, 1870
• Jonathan Weier, The past, present and future of police unions in Canada

Chair :

• Kassandra Luciuk

Racialized and Indigenous Peoples, Capital, and Labour

• Julie Guard, Leslie Spillett: Kohkum, Knowledge Keeper, Cree and Métis Community Organizer, Labour Activist, Feminist
• Matthieu Tardif, De l’activité de subsistance au travail : les rapports de production induits par la traite des fourrures en Nouvelle-France
• Michael Billeaux-Martinez, I’s da Power’: The rise and fall of militant unionism among Milwaukee longshoremen, 1934-1942

Chair :

• Lachlan MacKinnon

Union Movement, Feminism and Social Reproduction

• Camille Robert, Pour un « troisième front » : luttes féministes et syndicales face au tournant néolibéral québécois
• Mia Michael, Show us how to do it”: Home Care Workers & Organized Labor’s Revival Despite Reagan
• Thomas MacMillan, We Can Do It Ourselves”: A Feminist Union and the Fight For Maternity Leave

Chair :

• Greg Kealey

Race, Ethnicity, and the Canadian Labour Movement, 1920-1982

• Jane Komori, Interwar Asian immigrant and Indigenous workers on the West Coast
• David Goutor, Human rights campaigns and organized labour in 1940s revisited
• Sajdeep Soomal, A Time to Rise: Labour and feminist organizing in the South Asian diaspora in Canada following the Emergency in India (1975–1977).

Chair :

• Kirk Niergarth

Plenary Session

50 Years of Labour Studies

• Alvin Finkel, Labour/Le Travail : An Analysis of Changing Themes and Approaches from 1976 to 2025
• Karen Messing, When will it end? Over 45 years of discrimination against women in occupational health and safety in Québec
• Adam King, What Next for Labour Studies? The Prospects and Challenges of a Partisan Field

Chair :

• Bryan Palmer

Labouring for the Future: Workers, Unions, the Environment, and Pensions

• Melissa Ziani, Redéfinir le travail : quand la jeunesse place l’environnement au cœur de ses choix professionnels
• Chad Montrie, Labour and Environment, Past and Present, Alberta and Ontario
• Shannon Ikebe, From Socialism to Neoliberalism: Swedish Origins of the Collective Workers’ Funds in Québec

Chair :

• Barry Eidlin

Global and Socialist Politics

• Sarah K. Miles, On édite pour le plaisir : l’engagement militant intellectuel et travail entre capitalisme et anticapitalisme dans l’ère des fronts communs
• Nicolas Lépine, Lockout et blackout : la grève La Canadiense de 1919, une action réussie de la base
• Edward Dunsworth, Labour Socialists and the Immigration Question in Interwar Canada

Chair :

• Don Nerbas

Capitalism, Domestic Work and Collective Organization

• Sinead Petrasek, Renovate! Recycle! Invest! Domestic Labour and Urbanization in Chatelaine Magazine, 1970-1990
• Adia Giddings, The Fight for Wages in the Household: The Household Workers’ Association and Support Networks for Black Household Workers in Montreal, 1975-1987
• Frédéric Barriault, Un mouvement ouvrier Urbi et Orbi? Les prêtres-ouvriers et l’émancipation collective des milieux populaires au Québec (1964-1980)

Chair :

• Denyse Baillargeon

Education as Resistance: How we teach about and learn from class struggle

• John-Henry Harter, Roles of Resistance in the Classroom: Teaching and Learning About Class Struggle
• Andrea Samoil, Boycotts and Physical World Activism

Chair :

• Jordan Thompson

Deindustrialization in question: periodization, structural changes and regional struggles

• William Gillies, The Power Politics of Regional Deindustrialization: The Cape Breton Development Corporation, State Ownership, and Pit Closure in Canada’s Coal Industry 1967-2001
• Steven High, The New Mercantilism: Kari Polanyi Levitt’s Silent Surrender and Canada’s Branch-Plant Economy
• Lachlan MacKinnon, Negotiating the End of Coal: UMW District 26 and the DEVCO Coal Closures, 1999-2000

Chair :

• Lauren Laframboise