Errol Black
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673829 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Errol Black |
| GIVEN NAMES | Errol |
| FAMILY NAME | Black |
| SIGNATURE | BLACK E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brandon University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Square Deal for All and No Railroading: Historical Essays on Labour in Brandon
The Clothes off Our Back: A History of ACTWU 459
Gambling mania: Lessons from the Manitoba experience
What Kind of Capitalism? The Revival of Class Struggle in Canada
At the end of 1995, Gordon Wilson, president of the Ontario Federation of Labor, promised an intensification of class conflict in Canada's industrial heartland: In 1996...the business community is going to discover that it cannot rip up the social fabric and expect the kind of harmony in the workplace that has evolved over the past 10 years. It will be the year when confrontation replaces cooperation and partnership is replaced by protest. There …
Cracking the Canadian Formula: The Making of the Energy and Chemical Workers Union
The Canada-US Free Trade Agreement; a comment
"Comments on "Canada: "Our Model?"; Martin J. Morand Replies
Martin J. Morand's discussion of what needs to be done to reverse the fortunes of organized labor in the United States—"Canada: Our Model?" (MR, June 1990)—is off the mark. Morand's argument is that the American labor movement faces a crisis of survival, and that, to surmount the crisis, labor should single-mindedly concentrate on winning the enactment of first-contract legislation, such as Canada has in the federal jurisdiction and in the provin…
The Retrieval of Labour History in the United States: A Review of Two Recent Films on the Class War in the West Virginia Coal Fields
Errol Black, Joe Dolecki, The Retrieval of Labour History in the United States: A Review of Two Recent Films on the Class War in the West Virginia Coal Fields, Labour / Le Travail, Vol. 24, Special Issue on Women and Work/Numero special: les femmes et travail (Fall, 1989), pp. 253-264
Political Realignment in Canada
It seems that there is something of a political realignment under way in Canada. In September 1984, a Tory government was elected to Ottawa with a significant share of the popular vote and a record number of seats. Since its election, the government has been plagued by a series of scandals implicating members of the cabinet and/or caucus in sleazy and corrupt activities. In addition, virtually every policy initiative of the government has served …
Productive and Unproductive Labour
When I started to read Ken J. Tarbuck's article, Productive and Unproductive Labour (in SPE 12, Fall 1983), I assumed he was going to deal with the question of how the Marxian distinction between these categories of labour could serve as the basis for a challenge to the vulgar notions (based on the single criterion of whether or not the labour gives rise to profits) being used by ruling classes to accentuate the division between private and publi…
Canada's Economy: The Prism of Class
In September 1985, two documents were published that address the difficult social and economic problems facing Canada: (1) the Report of the Macdonald Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada; and (2) The Other Macdonald Report, a collection of briefs submitted to the Macdonald Commission by groups representing what the editors of the collection—Duncan Cameron and Daniel Drache—term the "popular sector." The two…
Responsibility and Irresponsibility of the Left; the Editors Respond; Canadian Bishops on the Economic Crisis
On rare occasions an article appears which brilliantly cuts through the Gordian knot of theory and provides clear direction for meaningful socialist work. More frequently, an article appears that so profoundly confuses issues that it only attains value as a prototype of what its readers should not do.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version …
The Making of the East End Community Club
BRANDON, MANITOBA HAD ITS beginnings in 1881 as a divisional point for the Canadian Pacific Railway. The formative years of the city belonged to the land speculators, the contractors, and the other elements of a flourishing petty bourgeoisie, but by the first decade of the present century their dominance was being challenged by an expanding and combative working class. The challenge from labour reached its peak in the years immediately following …
Doctors and Socialized Health Care in Québec; Reply to Osterman by Errol Black
The article appearing recently in Monthly Review (September 1981) by Errol Black entitled "Dealing with the Doctors: The Canadian Experience" is both simplistic and misleading. As with most commentators from English-speaking Canada, Black fails entirely to consider the singular exception of the medical insurance system in the province of Quebec, which, while retaining a fee-for-service method of payment for physicians, has virtually none of the f…
Dealing With the Doctors: The Canadian Experience
The national health-care scheme in Canada was put in place in the 1950s and 60s. The initiative for massive state intervention in the provision of health care came from a social democratic Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) government in Saskatchewan in the late 1940s. Committed to a system of "socialized medicine" the CCF government elected in 1944 took its first tentative step in this direction in 1947 with the introduction of a universa…
Seeds of Destruction
Brandon is a small city in Manitoba with a population of about 35,000. Situated in a major agricultural region, the city functions primarily as a distribution and service center. Consequently the majority of the working population are employed either in private-sector retail trade and service establishments or in the public sector—local government, health services, education, and provincial and federal government offices; indeed, recent estimates…
The Politics of Industrial Democracy in Britain: Reflections on the Report of the Committee of Inquiry on Industrial Democracy
One Too Many Reports on Poverty in Canada
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Cracking the Canadian Formula: The Making of the Energy and Chemical Workers Union
Gambling mania: Lessons from the Manitoba experience
The Canada-US Free Trade Agreement; a comment
Political Realignment in Canada
It seems that there is something of a political realignment under way in Canada. In September 1984, a Tory government was elected to Ottawa with a significant share of the popular vote and a record number of seats. Since its election, the government has been plagued by a series of scandals implicating members of the cabinet and/or caucus in sleazy and corrupt activities. In addition, virtually every policy initiative of the government has served …
The Making of the East End Community Club
BRANDON, MANITOBA HAD ITS beginnings in 1881 as a divisional point for the Canadian Pacific Railway. The formative years of the city belonged to the land speculators, the contractors, and the other elements of a flourishing petty bourgeoisie, but by the first decade of the present century their dominance was being challenged by an expanding and combative working class. The challenge from labour reached its peak in the years immediately following …
One Too Many Reports on Poverty in Canada
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
One Too Many Reports on Poverty in Canada
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Politics of Industrial Democracy in Britain: Reflections on the Report of the Committee of Inquiry on Industrial Democracy
Seeds of Destruction
Brandon is a small city in Manitoba with a population of about 35,000. Situated in a major agricultural region, the city functions primarily as a distribution and service center. Consequently the majority of the working population are employed either in private-sector retail trade and service establishments or in the public sector—local government, health services, education, and provincial and federal government offices; indeed, recent estimates…
Dealing With the Doctors: The Canadian Experience
The national health-care scheme in Canada was put in place in the 1950s and 60s. The initiative for massive state intervention in the provision of health care came from a social democratic Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) government in Saskatchewan in the late 1940s. Committed to a system of "socialized medicine" the CCF government elected in 1944 took its first tentative step in this direction in 1947 with the introduction of a universa…
Doctors and Socialized Health Care in Québec; Reply to Osterman by Errol Black
The article appearing recently in Monthly Review (September 1981) by Errol Black entitled "Dealing with the Doctors: The Canadian Experience" is both simplistic and misleading. As with most commentators from English-speaking Canada, Black fails entirely to consider the singular exception of the medical insurance system in the province of Quebec, which, while retaining a fee-for-service method of payment for physicians, has virtually none of the f…
Responsibility and Irresponsibility of the Left; the Editors Respond; Canadian Bishops on the Economic Crisis
On rare occasions an article appears which brilliantly cuts through the Gordian knot of theory and provides clear direction for meaningful socialist work. More frequently, an article appears that so profoundly confuses issues that it only attains value as a prototype of what its readers should not do.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version …
The Making of the East End Community Club
BRANDON, MANITOBA HAD ITS beginnings in 1881 as a divisional point for the Canadian Pacific Railway. The formative years of the city belonged to the land speculators, the contractors, and the other elements of a flourishing petty bourgeoisie, but by the first decade of the present century their dominance was being challenged by an expanding and combative working class. The challenge from labour reached its peak in the years immediately following …
Productive and Unproductive Labour
When I started to read Ken J. Tarbuck's article, Productive and Unproductive Labour (in SPE 12, Fall 1983), I assumed he was going to deal with the question of how the Marxian distinction between these categories of labour could serve as the basis for a challenge to the vulgar notions (based on the single criterion of whether or not the labour gives rise to profits) being used by ruling classes to accentuate the division between private and publi…
Canada's Economy: The Prism of Class
In September 1985, two documents were published that address the difficult social and economic problems facing Canada: (1) the Report of the Macdonald Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada; and (2) The Other Macdonald Report, a collection of briefs submitted to the Macdonald Commission by groups representing what the editors of the collection—Duncan Cameron and Daniel Drache—term the "popular sector." The two…
Political Realignment in Canada
It seems that there is something of a political realignment under way in Canada. In September 1984, a Tory government was elected to Ottawa with a significant share of the popular vote and a record number of seats. Since its election, the government has been plagued by a series of scandals implicating members of the cabinet and/or caucus in sleazy and corrupt activities. In addition, virtually every policy initiative of the government has served …
The Retrieval of Labour History in the United States: A Review of Two Recent Films on the Class War in the West Virginia Coal Fields
Errol Black, Joe Dolecki, The Retrieval of Labour History in the United States: A Review of Two Recent Films on the Class War in the West Virginia Coal Fields, Labour / Le Travail, Vol. 24, Special Issue on Women and Work/Numero special: les femmes et travail (Fall, 1989), pp. 253-264
"Comments on "Canada: "Our Model?"; Martin J. Morand Replies
Martin J. Morand's discussion of what needs to be done to reverse the fortunes of organized labor in the United States—"Canada: Our Model?" (MR, June 1990)—is off the mark. Morand's argument is that the American labor movement faces a crisis of survival, and that, to surmount the crisis, labor should single-mindedly concentrate on winning the enactment of first-contract legislation, such as Canada has in the federal jurisdiction and in the provin…
Cracking the Canadian Formula: The Making of the Energy and Chemical Workers Union
The Canada-US Free Trade Agreement; a comment
Gambling mania: Lessons from the Manitoba experience
What Kind of Capitalism? The Revival of Class Struggle in Canada
At the end of 1995, Gordon Wilson, president of the Ontario Federation of Labor, promised an intensification of class conflict in Canada's industrial heartland: In 1996...the business community is going to discover that it cannot rip up the social fabric and expect the kind of harmony in the workplace that has evolved over the past 10 years. It will be the year when confrontation replaces cooperation and partnership is replaced by protest. There …
The Clothes off Our Back: A History of ACTWU 459
A Square Deal for All and No Railroading: Historical Essays on Labour in Brandon
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