Alvin Finkel
Biographic Data
| ID | 284379 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alvin Finkel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alvin |
| FAMILY NAME | Finkel |
| SIGNATURE | FINKEL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Athabasca University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Le Canada: Lieu de rencontres et de conflits by Harold Bérubé (review)
Smelter Wars: A Rebellious Red Trade Union Fights for Its Life in Wartime Western Canada
Following in his father's and brother's footsteps, Ron Verzuh worked as a laborer at Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada (Cominco) in Trail, British Columbia (BC), for two years after high school and then returned for a second stint in the early 1970s after completing his undergraduate degree. His experience of this hazardous workplace and the camaraderie with his fellow workers encouraged Verzuh to write the history of workers’ st…
Farewell, Walter Hildebrandt
Walter Hildebrandt represented a classic and now all too rare Prairie radicalism that blended grassroots egalitarianism with populist agitation and Marxism in equal measures, which some left-wing scholars might find a strange brew.It made sense in a region where a sense of marginalization has produced various hybrid ideologies.Walter was garrulous, funny, and always in search of new learning.His sudden passing from a heart attack on 11 October 20…
Martin Petitclerc et Martin Robert, Grève et paix. Une histoire des lois spéciales au Québec, (Montréal: (Lux Éditeur 2018)
The Rise and Fall of United Grain Growers: Cooperatives, Market Regulation, and Free Enterprise by Paul D. Earl
Reviewed by: The Rise and Fall of United Grain Growers: Cooperatives, Market Regulation, and Free Enterprise by Paul D. Earl Alvin Finkel Earl, Paul D. – The Rise and Fall of United Grain Growers: Cooperatives, Market Regulation, and Free Enterprise. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2019. 349 p. The United Grain Growers (UGG), almost from its origins, existed in a twilight zone between the cooperative movement of farmers in western Canada,…
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity by Eugene McCarraher
Reviewed by: The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity by Eugene McCarraher Alvin Finkel Eugene McCarraher, The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2019) I did not expect to enjoy this ridiculously lengthy (800 pages) tome which opens its critique of capitalism with an unapologetic theism that I found tedious. McCarraher…
Canadian Committee on Labour History Annual General Meeting 16 June 2020 Convened virtually from various locations across Turtle Island
Peter Graham and Ian McKay, Radical Ambition: The New Left in Toronto
Reviewed by: Radical Ambition: The New Left in Toronto by Peter Graham and Ian McKay Alvin Finkel Peter Graham and Ian McKay, Radical Ambition: The New Left in Toronto (Toronto: Between the Lines 2019) Works on the Canadian New Left are now sprouting plentifully and certainly a work on the country's major city is welcome. This one is encyclopedic, and Graham and McKay deserve thanks for their inclusive rendition of the youthful radical movements …
Compassion: A Global History of Social Policy
Compassion traces the ways in which various societies across the globe have responded to the vulnerable among them from early human history to the present. Along the way, Alvin Finkel assesses the impacts of economic developments, colonialism, political arrangements, gender, race, and social class in influencing how different peoples have defined the rights of individuals and communities facing hardship. From Russia to Iran, from Scandinavia to V…
Civic Labors: Scholar Activism and Working-Class Studies ed. by Dennis Deslippe, Eric Fure-Slocum, and John W. McKerley
Reviewed by: Civic Labors: Scholar Activism and Working-Class Studies ed. by Dennis Deslippe, Eric Fure-Slocum, and John W. McKerley Alvin Finkel Dennis Deslippe, Eric Fure-Slocum, and John W. McKerley, eds., Civic Labors: Scholar Activism and Working-Class Studies (Urbana: University of Illinois Press 2016) "Engaged scholarship" covers a wide terrain and this book offers a panorama of historical and current examples of scholars' efforts to link …
Manitoba Politics and Government: Issues, Institutions, Traditions ed. by Paul G. Thomas and Curtis Brown (review)
Reviewed by: Manitoba Politics and Government: Issues, Institutions, Traditions ed. by Paul G. Thomas and Curtis Brown Alvin Finkel Paul G. Thomas and Curtis Brown, eds. Manitoba Politics and Government: Issues, Institutions, Traditions. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2010. 452 pp. Notes. $29.95 sc. This is an excellent and diverse collection of papers which, in earlier versions, were presented at a conference held at the University of M…
Working People in Alberta: A History
The State of Writing on the Canadian Welfare State: What's Class Got to Do with It
SINCE 1979, THE MAJOR SYNTHESIS on the history of the welfare state in Canada has been Dennis Guest's The Emergence of Social Security in Canada. Revised twice, most recently in 1997, Guest's overview is a workmanlike presentation of the contexts that produced the major pieces of social legislation in Canada. If Guest deals well with the debates surrounding the emergence of various programs, he provides little sense of the range of alternatives t…
J. B. McLachlan: A Biography
Campeau, Georges, De l’assurance-chômage à l’assurance-emploi (Montréal, Boréal, 2001), 396 p
CAMPEAU, Georges, De l’assurance-chômage à l’assurance-emploi (Montréal, Boréal, 2001), 396 p.. An article from journal Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française (Volume 56, Number 1, Summer 2002, pp. 3-148), on Érudit
Welfare for Whom? Class, Gender, and Race in Social Policy
Christie, Nancy. Engendering the State: Family, Work, and Welfare in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000) Hoffman, Beatrix. The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001) Marshall, Dominique. Aux origines sociales de l'Etat-providence: familles quebecoises, obligation scolaire et allocations familiales, 1940-1955 (Montreal : Presses de l'Univers…
L'Alliance de la dernière chance
The World Guide 2001/2002: An Alternative Reference to the Countries of Our Planet
Politics and Public Debt: The Dominion, the Banks, and Alberta's Social Credit
Public Debt and Debt Management Capital Markets and the Players Political Uncertainty and New Institutional Arrangements, 1930-1939 The Alberta Default and Its Impact on the Dominion's Credit Broadening the Ownership of the Debt and Bank Resistance, 1935-1939 Wartime: Conscription of Capital If Necessary, But Not Necessarily Conscription, 1940-1945 Attempts to Keep Faith with Bondholders, 1945-1952 Politics, Public Debt and Debt Management Index
Donald C. MacDonald — The Happy Warrior: Poltical Memoirs
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Major Douglas and Alberta Social Credit
Seeking the Highest Good: Social Service and Gender at the University of Toronto, 1888-1937
A Marriage of Convenience: Business and Social Work in Toronto 1918-1957
Even the Little Children Cooperated: Family Strategies, Childcare Discourse, and Social Welfare Debates 1945-1975
The debate about public funding and regulation of childcare has always had as its central focus: should mothers be encouraged or discouraged from seeking paid work outside the home? While some scholars argue that labour needs — the reserve army thesis — best explain resulting public policies regarding childcare, this article argues that campaigns by women's organizations, sometimes aided by mixed-sex progressive social organizations, have been mo…
Social Classes and Social Credit in Alberta
The centrist theory of the lower middle class is widely used to explain the Social Credit movement in Alberta.The theory assumes that members of this class are ul tirnately conservative;if not reactionary, in both outlook and behaviour.However, the application of the theory to the Alberta movement is shown to be problematic f(:\r several reasons.Those offering this explanation do not back up their claims wi th evidence.Empirical analyses of the p…
Populism and Democratic Thought in the Canadian Prairies, 1910-1945
The State and Enterprise: Canadian Manufacturers and the Federal Government 1917-1931
Working People in Alberta: A History
J. B. McLachlan: A Biography
Divisions of Labour: Skilled Workers and Technological Change in Nineteenth Century Britain
Major Douglas and Alberta Social Credit
Seeking the Highest Good: Social Service and Gender at the University of Toronto, 1888-1937
The Social Credit Phenomenon in Alberta
Even the Little Children Cooperated: Family Strategies, Childcare Discourse, and Social Welfare Debates 1945-1975
The debate about public funding and regulation of childcare has always had as its central focus: should mothers be encouraged or discouraged from seeking paid work outside the home? While some scholars argue that labour needs — the reserve army thesis — best explain resulting public policies regarding childcare, this article argues that campaigns by women's organizations, sometimes aided by mixed-sex progressive social organizations, have been mo…
The Cold War, Alberta Labour, and the Social Credit Regime
In the period following World War II, Alberta's Social Credit government passed several pieces of restrictive legislation which limited labour's ability to organize workers and to call strikes. The enforcement of labour law also reflected an anti-union bias. This article argues that Social Crediters, who had a penchant for conspiracy theories, believed that union militancy was the product of the manoeuverings of an international communist conspir…
The Rise and Fall of the Labour Party in Alberta, 1917-42
WHILE ALBERTA IS generally regarded as a conservative province, its early labour movement was class conscious and, for many years had a significant political impact provincially and in many municipalities. The Labour Party, which united trade unions and socialists of every stripe (until its expulsion of the Communists in 1929) reflected the determined independence of Alberta workers: its leaders and members were almost exclusively working-class. …
Populism and the Proletariat: Social Credit and the Alberta Workin Class
The emergence of the Social Credit movement in Depression-ridden Alberta has long fascinated Canadian scholars interested in the phenomenon of populism
Liberalism in Crisis
Walter W. Heller. The Economy: Old Myths and New Realities. New York: Norton, 1976. 224 pp. Neil W. Chamberlain. Remaking American Values: Challenge to a Business Society. New York: Basic Books, 1977. 193 pp. Not so very long ago it was believed that the neoclassical synthesis of market principles with Keynesian fiscal and monetary thought had solved the dilemma that seemed to pull capitalist economies into periodic depression during which men an…
The "Work Ethic" and Control of the Workforce
Bruno Ramirez. When Workers Fight: The Politics of Industrial Relations in the Progressive Era, 1898-1916. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1978. 241 + viiipp. Daniel T. Rodgers. The Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978. 300 + xv pp. American thought from the colonial period onwards has glorified hard work. But the "work ethic" was strongest in the period before the rise of the factories, a peri…
The State and Enterprise: Canadian Manufacturers and the Federal Government 1917-1931
Populism and the Proletariat: Social Credit and the Alberta Workin Class
The emergence of the Social Credit movement in Depression-ridden Alberta has long fascinated Canadian scholars interested in the phenomenon of populism
Social Class and the Progressive Era
David Colburn and George E. Pozzetta, eds. Reform and Reformers in the Progressive Era. Westport, Conn,: Greenwood Press, 1983.196 + xi pp. Robert M. Crunden. Ministers of Reform: The Progressives' Achievement in American Civilization, 1889-1920. New York: Basic Books, 1982.307 + xii pp. Gerald G. Eggert. Steelmasters and labor Reform, 1886-1923. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981. 212 + xvii pp. John F. McClymer. War and Welfare: S…
The Rise and Fall of the Labour Party in Alberta, 1917-42
WHILE ALBERTA IS generally regarded as a conservative province, its early labour movement was class conscious and, for many years had a significant political impact provincially and in many municipalities. The Labour Party, which united trade unions and socialists of every stripe (until its expulsion of the Communists in 1929) reflected the determined independence of Alberta workers: its leaders and members were almost exclusively working-class. …
Divisions of Labour: Skilled Workers and Technological Change in Nineteenth Century Britain
The Cold War, Alberta Labour, and the Social Credit Regime
In the period following World War II, Alberta's Social Credit government passed several pieces of restrictive legislation which limited labour's ability to organize workers and to call strikes. The enforcement of labour law also reflected an anti-union bias. This article argues that Social Crediters, who had a penchant for conspiracy theories, believed that union militancy was the product of the manoeuverings of an international communist conspir…
The Social Credit Phenomenon in Alberta
Few parties in political history have had such a swift metamorphosis from one end of the political spectrum to the other as did the Social Credit Party of Alberta. Between its establishment in the 1930s and the defeat of the Social Credit government in 1971, the party changed from a movement-based reformist organization to a cliquish, religious-oriented outfit whose main purpose was to hold the levers of power. In this account of the Social Credi…
The Social Credit Phenomenon in Alberta
The Social Credit Phenomenon in Alberta
Populism and Democratic Thought in the Canadian Prairies, 1910-1945
Social Classes and Social Credit in Alberta
The centrist theory of the lower middle class is widely used to explain the Social Credit movement in Alberta.The theory assumes that members of this class are ul tirnately conservative;if not reactionary, in both outlook and behaviour.However, the application of the theory to the Alberta movement is shown to be problematic f(:\r several reasons.Those offering this explanation do not back up their claims wi th evidence.Empirical analyses of the p…
Even the Little Children Cooperated: Family Strategies, Childcare Discourse, and Social Welfare Debates 1945-1975
The debate about public funding and regulation of childcare has always had as its central focus: should mothers be encouraged or discouraged from seeking paid work outside the home? While some scholars argue that labour needs — the reserve army thesis — best explain resulting public policies regarding childcare, this article argues that campaigns by women's organizations, sometimes aided by mixed-sex progressive social organizations, have been mo…
A Marriage of Convenience: Business and Social Work in Toronto 1918-1957
Seeking the Highest Good: Social Service and Gender at the University of Toronto, 1888-1937
Major Douglas and Alberta Social Credit
Donald C. MacDonald — The Happy Warrior: Poltical Memoirs
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Politics and Public Debt: The Dominion, the Banks, and Alberta's Social Credit
Public Debt and Debt Management Capital Markets and the Players Political Uncertainty and New Institutional Arrangements, 1930-1939 The Alberta Default and Its Impact on the Dominion's Credit Broadening the Ownership of the Debt and Bank Resistance, 1935-1939 Wartime: Conscription of Capital If Necessary, But Not Necessarily Conscription, 1940-1945 Attempts to Keep Faith with Bondholders, 1945-1952 Politics, Public Debt and Debt Management Index
The World Guide 2001/2002: An Alternative Reference to the Countries of Our Planet
J. B. McLachlan: A Biography
Campeau, Georges, De l’assurance-chômage à l’assurance-emploi (Montréal, Boréal, 2001), 396 p
CAMPEAU, Georges, De l’assurance-chômage à l’assurance-emploi (Montréal, Boréal, 2001), 396 p.. An article from journal Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française (Volume 56, Number 1, Summer 2002, pp. 3-148), on Érudit
Welfare for Whom? Class, Gender, and Race in Social Policy
Christie, Nancy. Engendering the State: Family, Work, and Welfare in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000) Hoffman, Beatrix. The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001) Marshall, Dominique. Aux origines sociales de l'Etat-providence: familles quebecoises, obligation scolaire et allocations familiales, 1940-1955 (Montreal : Presses de l'Univers…
L'Alliance de la dernière chance
The State of Writing on the Canadian Welfare State: What's Class Got to Do with It
SINCE 1979, THE MAJOR SYNTHESIS on the history of the welfare state in Canada has been Dennis Guest's The Emergence of Social Security in Canada. Revised twice, most recently in 1997, Guest's overview is a workmanlike presentation of the contexts that produced the major pieces of social legislation in Canada. If Guest deals well with the debates surrounding the emergence of various programs, he provides little sense of the range of alternatives t…
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