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Edward Dunsworth is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. His dissertation is a transnational history of tobacco farm labour in 20th century Ontario.

David Frank was recently named professor emeritus in Canadian history at the University of New Brunswick. He has published several studies on the history of the coal miners, including J.B. McLachlan: A Biography (James Lorimer and Company, 1999). His most recent book is Provincial Solidarities: A History of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour (Athabasca University Press, 2013), published also in French as Solidarités provinciales : Histoire de la Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Nouveau-Brunswick.

Chris Hurl is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University. Drawing from both historical and contemporary case studies, his research documents how public sector and community-based struggles have contributed to the rise of new state spaces and novel conceptions of political administrative power in Canada.

Dennis Molinaro holds a PhD in history from the University of Toronto. His research centres on the uses of emergency powers in peacetime. He is the author of An Exceptional Law: Section 98 and the Emergency State, 1919–1936 (University of Toronto Press, 2017). His research on Cold War–era wiretapping has also made national headlines. He currently teaches history at Trent University.

Stéphanie O'Neill détient un doctorat du Département d'histoire de l'Université de Montréal. Sa thèse porte sur les réactions que suscite l'entrée de Montréal et du Québec dans la société de consommation, entre 1945 et 1975.

Matthew Pehl is an Associate Professor of history at Augustana University, in Sioux Falls, SD. His book The Making of Working-Class Religion has just been published by the University of Illinois Press.

Albert Schrauwers is the chair of the Department of Anthropology at York University, Toronto. He has written about utopian socialism in a number of interrelated national contexts.

Kendra Strauss is a feminist economic geographer and Associate Professor in the Labour Studies Program at Simon Fraser University. Her research interests are in the areas of occupational welfare, precarious employment, migration and social reproduction. Her most recent book, co-edited with Katie Meehan, is Precarious Worlds: Contested Geographies of Social Reproduction (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015).

Ron Verzuh is a writer, historian, photographer, and documentary filmmaker currently completing his doctoral dissertation in history at Simon Fraser University. He is the author of Radical Rag: Canada's Pioneer Labour Press and Underground Times: Canada's Flower-Child Revolutionaries. His articles have appeared in BC Studies, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, rabble.ca, and Our Times. His most recent article for Labour/Le Travail was "Remembering Salt: How a Blacklisted Hollywood Movie Brought the Spectre of McCarthyism to a Small Canadian Town." [End Page 7]

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