Peter McInnis
Ph.D. Queen's University
Professional Activities & Community Service
Labour/Le Travail, Editorial Board – 1997 to 2016
Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT):
Chair, Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee, 2015-2017. Elected position.
- Board of Directors, Civil Liberties Defence Fund, 2015-2017
- Trustee, Defence Fund, 2015-2017
Labour and working-class history, North America and the Cold War era, social history of postwar Canada (focusing on the 1960s).
Current Research Projects
StFX UCR - A Remembrance of Things Past: The Commemoration of Industrialization/Deindustrialization at the Canadian Museum of History and the Nova Scotia Museum of Industry.
‘Militant Mail: Postal Workers and the Achievement of Collective Bargaining in the United States and Canada’.
"Hothead Troubles: 1960s-Era Wildcat Strike Culture in Canada." In Debating Dissent: Canada and the Sixties, eds. Lara Campbell, Dominique Clément, and Gregory S. Kealey. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012: 155-172.
"Teamwork for Harmony: Labour-Management Production Committees and the Postwar Settlement in Canada." In Labouring Canada: Class, Gender, and Race in Canadian Working-class History, eds. Joan Sangster and Bryan D. Palmer. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Harnessing Labour Confrontation: Shaping the Postwar Settlement in Canada, 1943-1950. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.
"Planning Prosperity: Canadians Debate Postwar Reconstruction." In Uncertain Horizons: Canadians and Their World in 1945, ed. Greg Donaghy. Ottawa: Canadian Committee for the History of the Second World War, 1997: 231-
