Eugene A. Forsey Prize
Eugene A. Forsey Prize in Canadian Labour and Working-Class History
Prix Eugene A. Forsey en histoire canadienne du travail et de la classe ouvrière
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Eugene A. Forsey Prize
in Canadian Labour and Working-Class History
The Canadian Committee on Labour History invites submissions for the Eugene A. Forsey Prize for graduate and undergraduate work on Canadian labour and working-class history.
Prizes are awarded annually for the best undergraduate essay, or the equivalent, and for the best graduate thesis completed in the past three years. The awards are determined by separate committees established by the executive of the CCLH. In the spirit of the journal LabourlLe Travail itself, the committees interpret the definition of Canadian labour and working-class history broadly.
Undergraduate essays may be nominated by course instructors, but nominators are limited to one essay per competition. Additionally, authors may submit their own work. Essays not written at a university or college may be considered for the undergraduate awards.
For the graduate prize, supervisors may nominate one thesis per competition or an author of a thesis may submit a copy. Submissions of both MA and PhD theses are welcome. Theses defended on or after 1 May 2005 are eligible for consideration in the current competition.
The Prize is supported by an anonymous donor, with the consent of the late Dr. Forsey's family, the CCLH chose to name the Prize in his honour because of his pioneering work in the field of Canadian labour history. Dr. Forsey was Research Director of the Canadian Congress of Labour and later the Canadian Labour Congress and also served on the committee which founded LabourlLe Travail.
The deadline for submissions in the current competition is 1 July 2009 .
Prizes will be announced in a forthcoming issue of LabourlLe Travail. Previous winners of the Prize are listed on the CCLH website. To submit entries to the competition, four copies of essays and one copy of a thesis must be sent to Forsey Prize, Canadian Committee on Labour History, c/o Alvin Finkel, Center for State and Legal Studies, Athabasca University, 1 University Drive, Athabasca, AB T9S 3A3 Canada.
Prix Eugene A. Forsey
en histoire canadienne du travail et de la classe ouvrière
Le Comité canadien sur l'histoire du travail (CCHT) sollicite des candidatures de la part des étudiants et des étudiantes des 1er, 2e et 3e cycles qui oeuvrent dans le domaine de l'histoire canadienne du travail et de la classe ouvrière.
Deux prix sont accordés annuellement : un prix pour la meilleure thèse ou le meilleur mémoire rédigé au cours des trois dernières années, ainsi qu'un prix pour le meilleur travail rédigé dans l'année par un étudiant ou une étudiante de 1er cycle. Deux comités distincts, mis en place par l'exécutif du CCHT, procéderont à la sélection des lauréats et des lauréates. À l'instar des membres de la rédaction de Labour/Le Travail, les comités responsables de l'octroi du Prix définissent l'histoire canadienne du travail et de la classe ouvrière de façon large.
Les professeurs peuvent recommander des travaux d'étudiants et d’étudiantes du 1er cycle, mais ils doivent se limiter à une seule présentation par concours. Les auteurs peuvent soumettre eux-mêmes leur travail. Pour le prix attribué aux étudiants et aux étudiantes du 1er cycle, les travaux réalisés hors de l'université ou du collège sont admissibles.
En ce qui concerne le prix décerné aux étudiants et aux étudiantes des 2e et 3e cycles, les professeurs ne peuvent proposer qu'une thèse ou un mémoire par concours, et les auteurs peuvent soumettre leur candidature eux-mêmes. Les thèses et les mémoires soutenus à partir du 1er mai 2005 sont admissibles à la phase actuelle du concours.
Ce prix, dont l'attribution est rendue possible grâce à un don anonyme, vise à honorer la mémoire de Eugene A. Forsey, un pionnier dans le domaine de l'histoire canadienne du travail et de la classe ouvrière, qui a été directeur de recherche au Congrès canadien du travail et aussi au Congrès du travail du Canada et membre du comité fondateur de Labour/Le Travail. C'est avec l'assentiment de la famille de feu Eugene A. Forsey que le CCHT a donné son nom à ce prix.
La date limite de présentation des candidatures est fixée au 1er juillet 2009. Les noms des récipiendaires seront publiés dans un numéro de Labour/Le Travail et les noms des lauréats et des lauréates des années précédentes seront inscrits sur le site Web du CCHT. Les travaux doivent être soumis en quatre exemplaires et les thèses et mémoires en un seul, à l'adresse suivante : Forsey Prize, Canadian Committee on Labour History, c/o Alvin Finkel, Center for State and Legal Studies, Athabasca University, 1 University Drive, Athabasca, AB T9S 3A3 Canada.
Sean William Mills, "The Empire Within: Montreal, the Sixties, and the Forging of a Radical Imagination," PhD Dissertation, Queen’s University, 2007.
Citation from the Prize Committee: In this dissertation, Sean Mills has made innovative use of decolonization theory to explore a wide range of social and political activism in 1960s Montreal. The application of Third World liberation theory by Montreal-based activists provides the framework to analyze the diverse intellectual strands of Quebec Sixties politics. Advocates for black power, women’s liberation, labour radicals, francophone separatists, and others came together and ‘developed their own individual narratives of liberation.’ Mills insists that tumultuous decade of the 1960s in Quebec, and for the West generally, was ‘profoundly shaped’ by interactions with the Third World. Meticulously researched and written in confident, lively prose, Mills presents a vivid portrait of Montreal’s diverse activists exchanging with their compatriots ‘from Havana to Buenos Aires to Berkeley.’ The dissertation argues cogently that 1960s Quebec was much less a singular movement for ‘Quebec liberation’ than it was a dynamic hybrid of progressive impulses, with all the strengths and weaknesses this entailed. Both as an intriguing historical case study and a potential template for contemporary engagement, Sean Mills’ analysis of Sixties Montreal will interest a wide range of scholars.
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Stephanie Ross, "The Making of CUPE: Structure, Democracy and Class Formation," Ph.D.,York University, 2005
Siobhan Laskey, "'Employees Under the Law': The Challenge of Industrial Legality in New Brunswick, 1945-1955", undergraduate essay, University of New Brunswick, 2006
Todd McCallum, "'Still Raining, Market Still Rotten;' Homeless Men and the Early years of the Great Depression in Vancouver," PhD thesis, Queen's University, 2004.
Alexandra Dodger, "The Eyes of Canada on Stratford: Reconsidering the Causes and the Consequences of Stratford's 1933 Furniture Strike," undergraduate essay, University of Toronto, 2005.
Sean Purdy, "From Place of Hope to Outcast Space: Territorial Regulation and Tenant Resistance in Regent Park Housing Project, 1949-2001," PhD thesis, Queen's University, 2003.
Anne Toews, "The Canadian Communist Party and the Women's Labor Leagues, 1918-1929," undergraduate essay, University College of the Fraser Valley, 2004.
Esyllt Wynne Jones, "Searching For the Springs of Health: Women and Working Families in Winnipeg's 1918-1919 Influenza Epidemic," PhD thesis, University of Manitoba (2002).
Scott C. McMahon, "For a New Kind of Radicalism: Exploring Quebecois Nationalist Radical Literature as a Microcosmic Representation of the New Left Sensibilities on Nation and Citizenship in Quebec in the 1960s," undergraduate essay, Trent University, 2004.
Richard Rennie, "'And there's nothing goes wrong': Industry, Labour, and Health and Safety at the Fluorspar Mines, St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, 1933-1978," PhD thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland (2001).
Brooke Pratt, "A Canadian Life on the Literary Left: The Legacy of Dorothy Livesay," Trent University.
Donica Belisle, "Consuming Producers: Retail Workers and Commodity Culture at Eaton's in Mid-Twentieth-Century Toronto," MA,Queen's University, 2001.
Andrew Parnaby, "On the Hook: Welfare Capitalism on the Vancouver Waterfront, 1919-1939," PhD thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2001
Undergraduate/Non-diplômé
Winners/Les gagnants 2001
Graduate/Diplômé
Jennifer Stephen, "Deploying Discourses of Employability and Domesticity: Women's Employment and Training Policies and the Formation of the Canadian Welfare State, 1935-1947," PhD thesis, University of Toronto, 2000.
Undergraduate/Non-diplômé
Judy McKeown, "Generational Decline and Racialisation of Labour in the Domestic Sphere: The Experience of British, Caribbean, and Filipina Domestic Workers," York University, 2000.
Mélanie Morin, "Michel Chartrand: la force de la parole et de l'action," Université de Moncton, 2000
Marcus Klee, "Between the Scylla and Charybdis of Anarchy and Despotism: The State, Capital, and the Working Class in the Great Depression, Toronto, 1929-1940," PhD thesis, Queen's University, 1998.
Undergraduate/Non-diplômé
Juanita Nolan, "Vancouver Trade and Industrial Unionists in Conflict: Baking Bread and Battling Capitalism in 1903 British Columbia," Simon Fraser University.
Allison Howell, "Retail Unionisation: A Historical Approach to the Suzy Shier Case," Trent University.
Winners/Les gagnants 1999
Graduate/Diplômé
Geoffrey Ewen, "The International Unions and the Workers' Revolt in Quebec, 1914-1925," PhD thesis, York University, 1998.
Undergraduate/Non-diplômé
Brian T. Thorn, "'Inhabitants of the Flowery Kingdom:' The Knights of Labor and the Chinese Question, 1880-1891," Queen's University.
J. Callum Makkai, "Captains' Wives of New England and Nova Scotia, 1850-1914," Dalhousie University
Winners/Les gagnants 1998
Graduate/Diplômé
Peter McInnis, "Harnessing Confrontation: The Growth and Consolidation of Industrial Unionism in Canada, 1943-1950," PhD thesis, Queen's University, June 1996.
Undergraduate/Non-diplômé
Mélanie Oulette, "La Grève de l'Amiante de 1975," Université de Montréal.
Jennifer Rogers, "Modernization of the Fishing Industry and the Fisherfolk: A Search for the Reality of Fishing in Nova Scotian Folk-song," Dalhousie University.
Winners/Les gagnants 1997
Graduate/Diplômé
James Wishart, "Producing Nurses: Nursing Training in the Age of Rationalization at Kingston General Hospital, 1924-1939," MA thesis, Queen's University, April 1997
Undergraduate/Non-diplômé
Chad Avery, "Iron Men Skipping Ship: The Desertion of Sailors on Atlantic Canadian Ships During the Age of Sail," Dalhousie University
Josée Moreau, "La grève de Winnipeg et la grève d'Asbestos: impact sur la société canadienne et québecois," Université de Moncton, Campus d'Edmundston
Winners/Les gagnants 1996
Graduate/Diplômé
John S. Lutz, "Work, Wages and Welfare in Aboriginal -- Non-Aboriginal Relations, British Columbia, 1849-1970," PhD Thesis, University of Ottawa, 1994.
Undergraduate/Non-diplômé
Kimberly Berry, "The Last Cowboy: The Community and Culture of Halifax Taxi Driver," Dalhousie University
Patrick J. Connor, "'Neither Courage Nor Perseverance Enough': Attentants at the Asylum for the Insane, Kingston 1877-1905," York University
