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“In Defiance is a remarkable insider’s account of the largest popular mobilization in recent Canadian history.” -Yves Engler
"Lunch-Bucket Lives is quite simply a masterpiece." - Ian McKay
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois' compelling account of the Maple Spring student strike, Tenir tête, won the 2014 Governor General's Literary Award for non-fiction and we are thrilled to announce the publication of the English translation, In Defiance. This translation also features a new foreword by Naomi Klein.
Strikes are just one important part of the amazing history found in Lunch-Bucket Lives: Remaking the Workers' City by Craig Heron. This book is a local study on Hamilton Ontario that draws out how Hamilton workers shared the larger working-class experience across Canada and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th Century.
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In Defiance
By Gabriel-Nadeau-Dubois
Translated by Lazer Lederhendler
Foreword by Naomi Klein
On February 7, 2012, as students in Quebec prepared to vote to go on strike, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois gave a rousing speech: “What you do today will be remembered. The decision you make will tell future generations who we were. And you already know what is being said today about our generation. That we are the generation of comfort and indifference, the generation of cash and iPods; that we are individualists, egotists; that we don’t care about anything, except our navels and our gadgets. Aren’t you tired of hearing this? Well, I am. Luckily, today we have a chance to prove that it’s not true, that it has never been true.”
The “Maple Spring” saw more than 300,000 students across Quebec protest a tuition fee hike by striking from their classes. Nadeau-Dubois takes readers step-by-step through the strike, recounting the confrontations with journalists, ministers, judges, and police. Along the way he exposes the moral and intellectual poverty of the Quebec elite and celebrates the remarkable energy of the students who opposed the mercenary attitude of the austerity agenda.
Hear an interview with the author on the CBC radio show C'est la vie.
In Defiance is translated from the 2014 Governor General’s Literary Award winner for non-fiction, Tenir tête (Lux Éditeur)
In Defiance is available from BTL and at your local bookstore.
ISBN 978-1-77113-182-7
200 pages
$21.95 |
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Lunch-Bucket Lives:
Remaking the Workers' City
by Craig Heron
Lunch-Bucket Lives takes the reader on a bumpy ride through the history of Hamilton’s working people from the 1890s to the 1930s. It ambles along city streets, peers through kitchen doors and factory windows, marches up the steps of churches and fraternal halls, slips into saloons and dance halls, pauses to hear political speeches, and, above all, listens for the stories of men, women, youths, and children from families where people relied mainly on wages to survive.
Heron takes wage-earning as a central element in working-class life, but also looks beyond the workplace into the households and neighbourhoods—settlement patterns and housing, marriage, child care, domestic labour, public health, schooling, charity and social work, popular culture, gender identities, ethnicity and ethnic conflict, and politics in various forms—presenting a comprehensive view of working-class life in the first half of the twentieth century.
Lunch-Bucket Lives is available from BTL and at your local bookstore.
ISBN 978-1-77113-212-1
784 pages
$39.95
This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
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BTL books reviewed
The War Resisters League reviewed Crisis and Control: The Militarization of Protest Policing By Lesley J. Wood and said it "succeeds in both detailing evolutions in protest policing over the last two decades and developing a suitably complex analysis of that process, it is most useful as a work of movement praxis, a rigorous and finely researched examination of global trends in policing and their resulting impact on possibilities for movement-building." |
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