CONTRIBUTORS

DAN CUI is a doctoral student in the Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta. Her earlier research work on the Chinese head tax and discourse analysis focuses on the early history of Chinese immigrants in Canada. Her research interests include Chinese immigrants, youth, ethnic relations, social justice, and social theory. She is the co-author, with Jennifer Kelly, of “‘Our Negro Citizens’: An Example of Everyday Citizenship Practices,” in The West and Beyond: New Perspectives on an Imagined Region (Edmonton: Athabasca University Press, 2011).

ALVIN FINKEL is professor of history at Athabasca University. Author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of twelve books, he is president of the Canadian Committee on Labour History and former book review editor for Labour/Le Travail. His books include the best-selling, multi-edition, two-volume History of the Canadian Peoples (with Margaret Conrad), The Social Credit Phenomenon in Alberta, Business and Social Reform in the Thirties, History of Canadian Social Policy, and The Chamberlain-Hitler Collusion (with Clement Leibovitz). He joined the Alberta Labour History Institute in 1999 and has been an executive member since 2000.

JASON FOSTER is academic coordinator for Industrial Relations at Athabasca University. Before joining the faculty at AU, Jason worked for many years as the director of policy analysis with the Alberta Federation of Labour, dealing extensively with industrial relations practices, government employment and labour policy, and the operation of trade unions. He also brings experience in non-profit sector employment relations. He has published work on union activism in Canada and on tripartism in Canada and Europe. He is currently co-investigator on a research project examining the training and education experiences of temporary foreign workers in nursing and the building trades.

WINSTON CERELUK has spent most of his career within the labour movement, after a brief career as a schoolteacher. He was research and education director of the Alberta Federation of Labour in the late 1970s and subsequently held a number of positions in the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees and the AFL, and was thus intimately connected with the events that he discusses in this book. In recent years, he has represented the Canadian labour movement in a variety of international forums, including the International Labour Organization, and was also academic coordinator of Industrial Relations and Human Resources at Athabasca University. A member of the Alberta Labour History Institute since 1999, he has served on its executive for many years. He is the chair of the steering committee for Project 2012.

JENNIFER KELLY is associate professor and department chair of the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Alberta. Among her many publications are two books, Borrowed Identities (New York: Peter Lang, 2004) and Under the Gaze: Learning to Be Black in White Society (Halifax: Fernwood, 1998). Her current SSHRC-funded three-year research project, “Racialization, Immigration and Citizenship: Alberta 1900-1960s,” explores how processes of immigration and racialization affected the social formation of African-Canadian communities in Alberta. She is also conducting an ongoing oral history research project with Jamaican teachers who immigrated to Alberta during the 1960s. In addition, she is continuing to publish research on youth, media, and production of black subjectivities. Jennifer is a long-time activist with the Alberta Labour History Institute and has held executive positions at the ALHI.

JAMES MUIR is assistant professor of history at the University of Alberta. His work focuses on the intersection of law, colonialism, and the economy, with an emphasis on the early history of Nova Scotia. He has also studied liability and tort law in nineteenth-century Nova Scotia, laws related to the natural environment in New Zealand between 1840 and 1920, and labour regulation in Hudson’s Bay Company posts in the eighteenth century. He is an active member of the Alberta Labour History Institute board.

JOAN SCHIEBELBEIN is the director of CAPS, the University of Alberta Career Centre. She began working with CAPS in September 1988, eventually taking on responsibility for developing and managing the unit’s career education programming and Career Peer Educator (CPE) program. In addition to her work with CAPS, Joan currently serves on the University of Alberta’s Community Service-Learning Advisory Board and the Work and Learning Network for Research and Policy Advisory Board, which is based in the Department of Educational Policy Studies. She has been an activist with and executive member of the Alberta Labour History Institute for many years and is a key figure in Project 2012.

JIM SELBY is a lifelong labour activist and author of left-wing publications. He was research and communications director at the Alberta Federation of Labour for ten years and then research director for another fifteen years. He researched and wrote policy papers and briefs to all level of government on a wide range of social and economic issues.

ERIC STRIKWERDA teaches history at the University of Alberta and at Athabasca University, including working-class history and western Canadian history. He also teaches courses at Athabasca University in labour studies. His book, The Wages of Relief: The City and the Depression on the Canadian Prairies, 1929–1939, will be published by Athabasca University Press in 2012. He has also published articles on relief policies in western Canadian cities during the Great Depression.