Party of Conscience

The CCF, the NDP, and Social Democracy in Canada

Edited by Roberta Lexier, Stephanie Bangarth and Jonathan Weier  

A closer look at Canada’s social democrats

Coming September 2018

Corporatizing Canada

Making Business out of Public Service

By Jamie Brownlee, Chris Hurl and Kevin Walby  

Exposing state agencies and organizations posing as private firms.

Published May 2018

Fighting Dirty

How a Small Community Took on Big Trash

By Poh-Gek Forkert  

An epic ten-year struggle against the biggest garbage company in the world

Published September 2017

Toronto’s Poor

A Rebellious History

By Bryan D. Palmer and Gaétan Héroux  Foreword by Frances Fox Piven  

The story of resistance and activism of Toronto’s dispossessed

• CAWLS Book Prize for the best book in work and labour studies, 2017 (Winner)

Published November 2016

The Vimy Trap

or, How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Great War

By Ian McKay and Jamie Swift  

An essential antidote to “Vimyism”!

• Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, 2017 (Short-listed)
• Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, 2017 (Short-listed)

Published October 2016

Queer Progress

From Homophobia to Homonationalism

By Tim McCaskell  

A local and global story of queer activism

Published September 2016

A Future Without Hate or Need

The Promise of the Jewish Left in Canada

By Ester Reiter  

Every complainer will be a singer

• Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature- History, 2017 (Short-listed)

Published July 2016

Flight and Freedom

Stories of Escape to Canada

By Ratna Omidvar and Dana Wagner  

Would Canada let them in today?

Published September 2015

In Defiance

By Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois  Translated by Lazer Lederhendler  

An inside look at the most impressive student protest in Canadian history.

Published June 2015

Lunch-Bucket Lives

Remaking the Workers’ City

By Craig Heron  

A fascinating look at working-class life in early twentieth-century Canada

• Clio Ontario Prize, 2016 (Winner)
• Fred Landon Award, 2016 (Winner)
• International Labor History Association, Book of the Year, 2015 (Winner)
• CAWLS Book Prize for the best book in work and labour studies, 2016 (Winner)
• Speakers Book Award, Legislative Assembly of Ontario, 2015 (Short-listed)
• Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, 2016 (Short-listed)

Published June 2015