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  • Editors’ Note
  • Gregory S. Kealey and Bryan D. Palmer

With this issue Sean Cadigan steps down as editor of Labour/Le Travail. Increased administrative responsibilities at Memorial University of Newfoundland necessitated Sean relinquishing editorial responsibilities, and this issue is jointly edited by Sean, Gregory S. Kealey, and Bryan D. Palmer. Greg and Bryan will act as interim co-editors of L/LT until a new editor or co-editors can be appointed. We thank Sean for his time and effort as editor, and for his longstanding contribution to the journal.

This issue contains a number of articles and one research note relating to caring labour, all of these contributions submitted by members of the Canadian Association of Work and Labour Studies (cawls). The publication of this material represents another step in consolidating the relationship of cawls and the Canadian Committee on Labour History (cclh), with L/LT a publishing venue encouraging closer affiliations, ongoing connections, and joint work on the part of the two labour studies bodies. The impetus behind these caring labour publications in L/LT was a CAWLS-sponsored conference on “Dissent and Resistance in the Workplace,” organized by Donna Baines, and held 3-4 October 2014 at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. We thank Donna and Sean, who worked together on the original submission of the caring labour papers that appear in this issue.

The editors would also like to note the excellent, new bibliographic resource in our field, The Labour Studies Index (labourstudies.ca). Two Laurentian University librarians, Desmond Maley and Dan Scott, founded this new project in Fall 2014. To date the Index includes Labour/le Travail (1976-), Just Labour, (2002-14), and Relations industrielles/Industrial Relations (1945-). In addition the Index will include relevant theses and dissertations, books, government and other institutional reports, and reviews. The Index only includes open access material. Individuals can help support and improve this project by adding appropriate material to the Index. For additional information and technical instructions please contact DMaley@laurentian.ca or DScott@laurentian.ca.

Finally, the editors would like to announce and congratulate the inaugural winner of the new cclh article prize. The 2016 winner is Magda Fahrini for her article “Glimpsing Working-Class Childhood through the Laurier Palace Fire of 1927: The Ordinary, the Tragic, and the Historian’s Gaze,” published in The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 8, 3 (Fall 2015). [End Page 9]

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