Now available! Strangely, Friends: A History of Cuban-Canadian Encounters by @kdubin.bsky.social! From the classrooms of Havana to the jazz clubs of Toronto, this book captures the enduring bonds forged through music, education, and mutual curiosity. Learn more: tinyurl.com/StrangelyFri...

Appel à communications pour une journée d'études que je co-organise : Les administrations du travail et les restructurations industrielles des années 1970 aux années 1990 afhmt.hypotheses.org/5868

Great to see @deindustrialpol.bsky.social team members in the news - but few of us get to be sketched too ! www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/...

Such an important intervention. First from Kim Thúy and now from Rémy Chhem and Marie-Ève Samson on behalf of the collective, Super Boat people. www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/opi...

I totally agree. We need to re-centre corporations.

Maybe it’s true that no one in #onpoli cares about @algomau.bsky.social. I do, though, because, of all of Ontario’s universities, it has a very important history & huge potential. #cdnpse needs stability, otherwise we will continue to see stories like this.

New book on the miners' strikes in Britain during the Second World War by Ariane Mak: editions.ehess.fr/ouvrages/ouv...

Looking forward to the online round-table next week. Open to all! www.eventbrite.ca/e/roundtable...

Two (2) MA fellowships at Concordia in deindustrialization studies.

Happy to have a chapter in this excellent (albeit far too expensive) new book edited by Chris Fitzgerald that explores the intersection between oral history and linguistics. www.bloomsbury.com/ca/linguisti...

I've been researching Singapore's early (1950s-1970s) labour history as part of a wider study on US capital flight. Not recognized here is the link between the union movement and Singapore's People's Action Party which has been in power since 1959.

Glad to see that the Canadian government has suspended the clawback (imposed by Mulroney in the 80s) of displaced workers' severance pay. Now let's make this change permanent - it is fundamentally unfair!

A special Labour Day read! "How Canadian women used unions to shape their lives for the better" by @peggynash.bsky.social and @jwhite54.bsky.social. Out today in the Globe and Mail Opinion column. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Well, this seems bleakly appropriate again.

Very much enjoyed interviewing Peter Katadotis with Eric Shragge this afternoon about his activist life in 1970s Montreal. Inspired by Saul Alinsky, who once spoke in the city, Peter was a key figure in the Parallel Institute, welfare rights campaigning, the Company of Young Canadians and the NFB.

Love this kind of creativity in historical research!

An interesting series of short memory-based audio-documentaries on the paper mill in Temiscaming Quebec (a key site of worker ownership). massyemond.bandcamp.com/album/this-t...

The trade union movement has long had it right, only when wages and working conditions are removed from competition (with poverty and repression dressed up as locational advantage) can we break the cycle of ever more extreme inequality.

Does anyone know what historical sources can help me track changing shareholder/corporate expectations of what an "adequate" return on investment looks like since the 1970s? I know that it varies sectorally and that it is, ultimately, more important than literal profitability.

This is a good thread. I note, by contrast, the ease with which "radical centrists" and the right took up the vaguer language of "culture" ("there's a culture of X"), an ersatz relativism ("we are entitled to our own facts"), invocations of (a very flat concept of) context ("man of his time"), etc.

I've just submitted An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class to my publisher, Verso. My book explores how a British working class which was powerfully grounded in politics, the economy and culture has been unmade since the 1960s. An Injury to All is due for publication next year!

Received a nice email from the leader's office for the Ontario NDP about my last book. Nice to know it is being read within the party. btlbooks.com/book/the-lef...

Wild - the British Labour Party (1976) sounded A LOT like Trump today. To combat mass unemployment and reindustrialize, the party reccommended the use of "import controls (surcharges and /or quotas), equivalent to a 15% surcharge on all manufactured imports.” Only then could it reflate the economy.

Air Canada workers are on the front lines defending a crucial constitutional right from being eroded. We must support them with everything we've got. By @policyalternatives.ca Executive Director @peggynash.bsky.social #canlab www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

"Yes, Students Should Still be Writing Essays in an Age of AI." I am grateful that the @cndhistassoc.bsky.social has reprinted an essay that I wrote for @thestar.com. Full text available at: cha-shc.ca/wp-content/u... Excerpts below.

Had a great meeting today with my incoming PhD student, Luca Savioli, who is studying the deindustrialization of Paris and Rome. As I am retiring in 8 years at age 65 (and PhDs take f-o-r-e-v-e-r to finish), he will be my final PhD student. Still accepting MA students and postdocs though!

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the ‘assassination’ of its Gaza correspondents and photographers by Israeli forces. 🔗: aje.io/eeht0q | #JournalismIsNotACrime

Furthest I've been in each direction in Canada: N: Kitwanga, BC W: Prince Rupert, BC E: Cape Spear, NL S: Leamington, ON

Part 2 of the blog is now live. I continue the conversation on class within today’s global socio-political agenda in a dialogue with the reviewers of ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’. Join the conversation in comments, on blogs or in journals alexandrinavanke.com/2025/08/07/p...

The next DePOT conference is here in Montreal next June and the theme is the environment and deindustrialization.

🏭 🍃 Si vous avez apprécié notre récente conférence en France, n'oubliez pas d'inscrire la conférence de l'année prochaine à Montréal dans votre agenda ! Nous avons également publié l'appel à communications, que vous pouvez consulter à l'adresse suivante afin de commencer à préparer votre soumission.

"L’histoire nous enseigne que toute véritable « transition juste » commence par un mouvement syndical fort." Mon opinion dans Le Devoir. www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idee...

This month's DEPOT deindustrialization blog is on "Proletarian (green) Publics in Transformation: Perspectives from the Ruhr" by Ute Eickelkamp and Stefan Berger. deindustrialization.org/proletarian_...

Very much enjoyed reading this critical piece on the politics of historian Pierre Nora in today's Le Devoir. www.ledevoir.com/opinion/chro...

Happy to see this news out of South Korea. Among other important things, the right to strike has been extended to plant closings and mass layoffs. www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/p...

Very much looking forward to reading this new book! Big congratulations to DePOT member Théo Georget! @deindustrialpol.bsky.social

I cannot believe this is true, that the Canadian government was, let's say diplomatically, less than honest about this. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Great planning meeting this morning with postdoc Florence Darveau Routhier on next year's workshop and special issue of Urban History Review on "Archiving the Contested City: Past and Present Spatial Struggles." It is an outgrowth of the DePOT project deindustrialization.org .

A major Ontario regional government closing down its heritage operations and liquidating its historical collections. Sigh. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Sad news. I once met him at the Green Spot restaurant in Saint-Henri when he came over to chat with David Austin, who I was there with. His archives are part of the Black communities collections held at Concordia's Special Collections.

devastating editorial by Omer Bartov (Israeli born, IDF veteran, leading scholar of the Holocaust). Reflects on not only the mass murder in Gaza but what this means for international law, historical memory, Holocaust studies, and Holocaust museums. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Tomé: Chile’s laboratory of deindustrialisation (and how to escape the shadow economy), globallabourcolumn.org/2025/07/10/t...

Spent an enjoyable (albeit hot) morning leading Dora and a group of 8 of her friends and family on a walking tour of the Lachine Canal. I do this every year after the tour is auctioned off as a fundraiser for the awesome Atwater Library (formerly the Mechanics Institute).

This is such a great blog on deindustrialization, offering us a geographic perspective. Highly recommended! I've pasted their map below - as it is an integral part of their analysis.

Congratulations to Dr. Sunjay Mathuria (supervised by Dr. Nalini Mohabir) who defended his outstanding PhD thesis "Tracing the Spectres, Evoking Absence-Presence: Memory-Making and Spatial Storytelling in Belfast and Lahore." It was a great conversation and I enjoyed serving as an examiner.

Very excited that this arrived in the mail today! Lilia did her postdoc at COHDS before being hired-on at U of T Mississauga.

Great to see the work of our artists in residence continue to ripple outward. This was a beautiful project! @deindustrialpol.bsky.social uk.news.yahoo.com/exhibition-s...

Remembering the tragedy of the Lac-Mégantic train derailment—and the lack of government action since. By Bruce Campbell @policyalternatives.ca www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

A thoughtful review of The Left in Power in the Montreal Review of Books from @taylornoakes.com mtlreviewofbooks.ca/reviews/the-...