Mark Leier
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 693743 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mark Leier |
| PRENOMES | Mark |
| SOBRENOME | Leier |
| ASSINATURA | LEIER M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Simon Fraser University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1987 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Working-Class Heroes
Reviewed by: Working-Class Heroes: A History of Struggle in Song, book and CD ed. by Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore Mark Leier Mat Callahan, Yvonne Moore, eds., Working-Class Heroes: A History of Struggle in Song, book and CD (Oakland: pm Press 2019) Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore have put together an inspiring collection of American labour songs, ranging from iww classics by Joe Hill and Ralph Chaplin to less-known songs from the 1930s by Sarah Og…
Contemporary Challenges Teaching Labour History
Contemporary Challenges:Teaching Labour History Mark Leier Introduction As scholars and academics, we are trained and rewarded for our mastery of content, of the facts, concepts, and ideas that make up our discipline. When we start teaching, it is common for us to focus on content. We are, after all, experts. We profess our expertise to the initiates and judge them by how well they absorb what we lay before them. This top-down process has been in…
Teaching Labour History and Organizing Skills with Movement Activists
Bearing the Marks of Capital
When Coal Was King
Book Review| March 01 2005 When Coal Was King: Ladysmith and the Coal-Mining Industry on Vancouver Island When Coal Was King: Ladysmith and the Coal-Mining Industry on Vancouver Island John R. Hinde Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2003 viii + 276 pp., $85.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper) Mark Leier Mark Leier Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2005) 2 (1): 125–127. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2-1-125…
Rebel Life
Debating Productivity
From Rebel to Reactionary
Portrait of a Labour Spy
This paper examines the life of Robert Raglan Gosden, 1882-1961. Gosden was an unskilled worker who joined the Industrial Workers of the World and advocated violent revolution. He took part in the Vancouver Island mining strikes of 1912-1914, and was a key player in the 1916 provincial election scandal. By 1919, however, he was an informant for the RCMP. The paper outlines Gosden's career and analyzes the complex way his class experience shaped h…
Plots, Shots, and Liberal Thoughts
CANADIANS IN THE LEFT and labour movements have been as fascinated by the events surrounding the death of Albert Goodwin in 1918 as Americans have been with those around the assassination of John F. Kennedy. In both cases the official explanation has been attacked by critics who reject the lone gunman theory in favour of conspiracies that reach to the highest levels of government and capital. No documents, witnesses, or verifiable testimony of a …
Things That Never Added up to Me
Horses of a Shared Colour
It is a rare event in Canadian historiography that two fine books should appear simultaneously dealing with the same city in the same time period. Rarer still is the fact that the two authors would subsequently debate the core concept of their books ? the importance of class in history ? in a regional journal. One is an urban historian, the other a historian of the working class. Reviewers of the two books are thus tempted to explore the upstairs…
Red Flags and Red Tape
Which Side Are They on? Thinking about The Labour Bureaucracy
WILLIAM SLOANE and Steven Fraser have crafted thorough and insightful biographies of labour leaden. They present critical, balanced, and on the whole positive interpretations of their subjects. But how should we assess and judge labour leaders? On the face of it, it would seem unfair to compare Jimmy Hoffa of the Teamsters with Sidney Hillman of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers (ACW). Hoffa's politics were voluntarist at best, conservative Republ…
The First Forty Years
Ethnicity, Urbanism, and the Labour Aristocracy
Kipling Gets a Red Card
IN 1908, THE WOBBLY newspaper the Industrial Union Bulletin published a poem entitled Cry of Toil. Better known as We Have Fed You All for A Thousand Years, the poem was originally credited to Rudyard Kipling, then in later editions to unknown proletarian. When it was reprinted in an anthology edited by Marcus Graham in 1929, the editor noted that it was a parody of a Kipling poem.' This is in fact the case, for the rww poem borrows the structure…
Where the Fraser River Flows
Which Side Are They On
The debate over the labour bureaucracy has changed considerably since Robert Michels first argued that oligarchy was inevitable whenever humans organized. Recent work has tended to play down the notion of the labour bureaucracy as a body distinct from, and often in opposition to, the rank and file. Indeed, in the pages of this journal, Jonathan Zeitlin has maintained that “no clear line can be drawn between trade union officials and the ‘rank and…
Harvey and Jessie
The Damndest Radical
Roger A. Bruns's immensely entertaining biography, now available in paperback, throws a spotlight on a colorful, influential, but long-obscured Chicago character. This is the true story of Ben Reitman, ally of hobos, personal physician to scores of Al Capone's prostitutes, author, womanizer, founder of Chicago's Hobo College, and longtime lover of Emma Goldman
Solidarity on Occasion
The labour and socialist movement of British Columbia before World War One was home to a number of competing tendencies and factions. While the different groups could and did work together on occasion, their relations with each other were often marked by hostility and suspicion. The Vancouver free speech fights of 1909 and 1912 illustrate dramatically the in-fighting between the Socialist Party of Canada, the Industrial Workers of the World, and …
The Soul of the Wobblies
Roughneck
Roughneck
The Damndest Radical
Roger A. Bruns's immensely entertaining biography, now available in paperback, throws a spotlight on a colorful, influential, but long-obscured Chicago character. This is the true story of Ben Reitman, ally of hobos, personal physician to scores of Al Capone's prostitutes, author, womanizer, founder of Chicago's Hobo College, and longtime lover of Emma Goldman
Where the Fraser River Flows
The Soul of the Wobblies
Roughneck
The Damndest Radical
Roger A. Bruns's immensely entertaining biography, now available in paperback, throws a spotlight on a colorful, influential, but long-obscured Chicago character. This is the true story of Ben Reitman, ally of hobos, personal physician to scores of Al Capone's prostitutes, author, womanizer, founder of Chicago's Hobo College, and longtime lover of Emma Goldman
Solidarity on Occasion
The labour and socialist movement of British Columbia before World War One was home to a number of competing tendencies and factions. While the different groups could and did work together on occasion, their relations with each other were often marked by hostility and suspicion. The Vancouver free speech fights of 1909 and 1912 illustrate dramatically the in-fighting between the Socialist Party of Canada, the Industrial Workers of the World, and …
Harvey and Jessie
Which Side Are They On
The debate over the labour bureaucracy has changed considerably since Robert Michels first argued that oligarchy was inevitable whenever humans organized. Recent work has tended to play down the notion of the labour bureaucracy as a body distinct from, and often in opposition to, the rank and file. Indeed, in the pages of this journal, Jonathan Zeitlin has maintained that “no clear line can be drawn between trade union officials and the ‘rank and…
Kipling Gets a Red Card
IN 1908, THE WOBBLY newspaper the Industrial Union Bulletin published a poem entitled Cry of Toil. Better known as We Have Fed You All for A Thousand Years, the poem was originally credited to Rudyard Kipling, then in later editions to unknown proletarian. When it was reprinted in an anthology edited by Marcus Graham in 1929, the editor noted that it was a parody of a Kipling poem.' This is in fact the case, for the rww poem borrows the structure…
Where the Fraser River Flows
Ethnicity, Urbanism, and the Labour Aristocracy
The First Forty Years
Which Side Are They on? Thinking about The Labour Bureaucracy
WILLIAM SLOANE and Steven Fraser have crafted thorough and insightful biographies of labour leaden. They present critical, balanced, and on the whole positive interpretations of their subjects. But how should we assess and judge labour leaders? On the face of it, it would seem unfair to compare Jimmy Hoffa of the Teamsters with Sidney Hillman of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers (ACW). Hoffa's politics were voluntarist at best, conservative Republ…
Plots, Shots, and Liberal Thoughts
CANADIANS IN THE LEFT and labour movements have been as fascinated by the events surrounding the death of Albert Goodwin in 1918 as Americans have been with those around the assassination of John F. Kennedy. In both cases the official explanation has been attacked by critics who reject the lone gunman theory in favour of conspiracies that reach to the highest levels of government and capital. No documents, witnesses, or verifiable testimony of a …
Things That Never Added up to Me
Horses of a Shared Colour
It is a rare event in Canadian historiography that two fine books should appear simultaneously dealing with the same city in the same time period. Rarer still is the fact that the two authors would subsequently debate the core concept of their books ? the importance of class in history ? in a regional journal. One is an urban historian, the other a historian of the working class. Reviewers of the two books are thus tempted to explore the upstairs…
Red Flags and Red Tape
From Rebel to Reactionary
Portrait of a Labour Spy
This paper examines the life of Robert Raglan Gosden, 1882-1961. Gosden was an unskilled worker who joined the Industrial Workers of the World and advocated violent revolution. He took part in the Vancouver Island mining strikes of 1912-1914, and was a key player in the 1916 provincial election scandal. By 1919, however, he was an informant for the RCMP. The paper outlines Gosden's career and analyzes the complex way his class experience shaped h…
Debating Productivity
Rebel Life
When Coal Was King
Book Review| March 01 2005 When Coal Was King: Ladysmith and the Coal-Mining Industry on Vancouver Island When Coal Was King: Ladysmith and the Coal-Mining Industry on Vancouver Island John R. Hinde Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2003 viii + 276 pp., $85.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper) Mark Leier Mark Leier Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2005) 2 (1): 125–127. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2-1-125…
Bearing the Marks of Capital
Contemporary Challenges Teaching Labour History
Contemporary Challenges:Teaching Labour History Mark Leier Introduction As scholars and academics, we are trained and rewarded for our mastery of content, of the facts, concepts, and ideas that make up our discipline. When we start teaching, it is common for us to focus on content. We are, after all, experts. We profess our expertise to the initiates and judge them by how well they absorb what we lay before them. This top-down process has been in…
Teaching Labour History and Organizing Skills with Movement Activists
Working-Class Heroes
Reviewed by: Working-Class Heroes: A History of Struggle in Song, book and CD ed. by Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore Mark Leier Mat Callahan, Yvonne Moore, eds., Working-Class Heroes: A History of Struggle in Song, book and CD (Oakland: pm Press 2019) Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore have put together an inspiring collection of American labour songs, ranging from iww classics by Joe Hill and Ralph Chaplin to less-known songs from the 1930s by Sarah Og…
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