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Rachel K. Brickner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at Acadia University. Her research focuses on workers’ activism, particularly among women, migrants, and public sector workers.

Peter Brogan is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography at York University. His research examines the relationship among urbanization, contemporary capitalism, labour movements, and working class power in North America.

Susan Dianne Brophy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo. Her current research focuses on the history of law and capitalism.

Joseph Courtney, M.A., is a researcher with the national office of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Ottawa, Canada. He has over ten years’ experience conducting research in support of developmental services workers.

Tamara Daly is a political economist and a health services researcher. She is an Associate Professor in the School of Health Policy and Management at York University. She also holds appointments in the Graduate programmes in Health Policy and Equity, Critical Disability Studies, and Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies. She holds a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (cihr) Research Chair in Gender, Work and Health.

Malcolm Doupe is a health services researcher. He holds positions as a Senior Research Scientist at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, and the Provincial Director of the Western Regional Training Centre.

Eric Fillion est doctorant au département d’histoire de l’Université Concordia. Ses recherches sur la diplomatie musicale canadienne s’inscrivent en continuité avec son parcours de musicien et ses travaux en cours sur le Jazz libre.

Dustin Galer is a Postdoctoral Fellow at York University and Collaborator at the Centre for Research on Work Disability Policy. His research explores historical perspectives of disability rights, poverty and employment.

Monika Goldmann, PhD is a sociologist, senior researcher and consultant at Social Research Centre/Dortmund University. She is involved in scientific research in the field of work sociology with a special focus on gender equality in employment, demographic change, and health and elderly care.

Stan Granic is a research associate with the Croatian Canadian Internment Project and has contributed articles, translations and reviews to several journals including The Michigan Historical Review, Canadian Ethnic Studies and Canadian Slavonic Papers.

Robert Hickey, PhD., is an Associate Professor of Industrial Relations at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Prior to entering academe, Robert spent ten years as a union organizer in the US.

Frode F. Jacobsen is an anthropologist with a degree in nursing. He is a Professor in older people’s care at Bergen University College, a Professor II at vid Specialized University, Norway, and a Research Director of the Center for Care Research – Western Norway. [End Page 7]

Tara La Rose, msw, rsw, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at Trent University (Social Work Program, Durham campus). Her research interests include: digital media, professional critique and resistance; labour and popular social work histories; interdisciplinarity and intra-professional education.

Beatrice Müller is a political scientist and holds a PhD in social work/education science. She is a research associate on the project “Re-imagining Long-Term Residential Care: An International Study of Promising Practices” and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vechta, Germany.

Jason L. Newton (PhD candidate) studies the history of the environment and capitalism at Syracuse University. His dissertation is titled “Forging Titans: Masculinity, Myth, and the Rise of Industrial Capitalism in the Northern Forest, 1850-1950.”

Jim Struthers is an historian and Professor Emeritus in Canadian Studies at Trent University and a member of the Trent Centre for Aging and Society. He publishes on the history of aging and Canadian public policy.

Yukari Takai is Assistant Professor at the University of Windsor and Associate of the York Centre for Asian Research. Her current research examines transmigration of Japanese to Hawaii and North America. She is the author of Gendered Passages: French-Canadian Migration to Lowell, Massachusetts, 1900-1920 (2008).

Deanne Taylor is a Regional Practice Lead: Research & Knowledge Translation, Interior Health Authority. Dee has a Masters, Disability and Community Studies and a PhD, Community Health Science...

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