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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · 56m

Sad news - oral historian Selma Leydesdorff has died after a long illness. I always appreciated our interactions over the years, most recently as a contributor to her forthcoming Handbook on Global Oral History. Sending my very best to her friends and family.
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Prof. dr. S. (Selma) Leydesdorff

S. Leydesdorff. Oral History and Culture. Faculty of Humanities. Kloveniersburgwal 48.

www.uva.nl

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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · 2h

Wonderful to see the fabulous Scottish Oral History Centre (and Arthur McIvor) featured this way!

Aaron Sheridan @acsheridan.bsky.social · 2h

Great write up from @charlielynch.bsky.social in The National yesterday covering the upcoming 30th Anniversary of the Scottish Oral History Centre. My brilliant advisor and Director of the Centre @ymcfadden.bsky.social front and centre alongside the bona fide legend and founder Arthur McIvor!

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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats - looks great!

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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · 7d

The deadline for the June 2026 @deindustrialpol.bsky.social conference is today and that of our summer institute for emerging scholars is next week. Check out our website for details (deindustrialization.org). Here is one of my favourite DePOT photos taken at our 2022 summer institute in Germany:

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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · 7d

A new DePOT Blog from Amber Ward on "Social Reproduction and Scandal in Netflix’s Toxic Town."

deindustrialization.org/netflix-toxi...

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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · 7d

Beautiful autumn day - perfect for leading the senior's group at Greene Community Centre on a historical walk of the Lachine Canal! Super enjoyable.

You can do it too - via our downloadable memory-based audio tour: storytelling.concordia.ca/projects-ite...

Canal – COHDS

« Les gars s’accrochaient après le train pis y se rendaient à l’école Saint-Henri […] pour économiser, pour être capables d’aller au restaurant […] manger une frite pis prendre une liqueur. »

storytelling.concordia.ca

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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 8d

No deal is better than a bad deal. Ottawa must stop chasing tariff relief at the expense of Canadian workers, resources and sovereignty By @marclee.bsky.social and @ccpa-tirp.bsky.social director Stuart Trew @policyalternatives.ca troymedia.com/politicslaw/...

Is Ottawa selling out Canada to Trump?

Stuart Trew and Marc Lee • Critical industries and sovereignty may be the price for tariff relief

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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · 12d

What a great idea - how could this go wrong? Look at what a great job the US/Blair did in Iraq.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Washington backing plan for Tony Blair to head transitional Gaza authority

Reported proposal for international body to oversee Gaza for up to five years counters UN-backed plan for faster transition to Palestinian rule

www.theguardian.com

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Between the Lines @btlbooks.com · 14d

Now available! Strangely, Friends: A History of Cuban-Canadian Encounters by @kdubin.bsky.social!

From the classrooms of Havana to the jazz clubs of Toronto, this book captures the enduring bonds forged through music, education, and mutual curiosity.

Learn more: tinyurl.com/StrangelyFri...

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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · 16d

Congratulations Alexandrina!

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Xavier Vigna @xvigna.bsky.social · 17d

Appel à communications pour une journée d'études que je co-organise : Les administrations du travail et les restructurations industrielles des années 1970 aux années 1990

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Appel à communication : Les administrations du travail et les restructurations industrielles des années 1970 aux années 1990

Appel à communications Les administrations du travail et les restructurations industrielles des années 1970 aux années 1990 CHATEPF À partir des années 1970, les logiques de modernisation induisan...

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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · 16d

Great to see @deindustrialpol.bsky.social team members in the news - but few of us get to be sketched too !

www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/...

Historian Marion Fontaine on 'Block Everything': 'It's difficult to find precedents in the long history of social movements'

Marion Fontaine, historian of social movements at the Sciences Po higher learning institute, describes the September 10 movement as a disorganized initiative that the myth of the general strike does n...

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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · 17d

Such an important intervention. First from Kim Thúy and now from Rémy Chhem and Marie-Ève Samson on behalf of the collective, Super Boat people.

www.lapresse.ca/dialogue/opi...

Kim Thúy, et tous celles et ceux que nous n’entendons pas

La levée de boucliers de la part de certains commentateurs aux propos de Kim Thúy plus tôt cette semaine a suscité bon nombre de commentaires. Ce collectif d’enfants de réfugiés souhaite réagir et rap...

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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · 19d

I totally agree. We need to re-centre corporations.

Enterprise and Society @entandsoc.bsky.social · 19d

We're delighted to bring you this is a bold intervention from Kristoffer Edelgaard Christensen & Søren Ivarsson: "Global Capitalist Assemblages: A Historiographical Appraisal of Multinational Enterprise in the Global South." Abstract here, link in the next post. We hope it finds a wide readership.

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Thomas Peace @tpcanoe.bsky.social · 19d

Maybe it’s true that no one in #onpoli cares about @algomau.bsky.social. I do, though, because, of all of Ontario’s universities, it has a very important history & huge potential. #cdnpse needs stability, otherwise we will continue to see stories like this.

Thomas Peace @tpcanoe.bsky.social · 19d

We need all levels of government to immediately fix #cdnpse. Our universities & colleges are struggling in Ontario because we have had little vision. Both provincial & federal policies have inflicted harm. These cuts at Algoma are devastating. www.ctvnews.ca/northern-ont... #onpoli #cdnpoli

Sharp drop in enrolment leads to job cuts at Algoma University

Reductions in international student numbers have caused enrolment at Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie to drop by 50 per cent, the school’s president said Thursday.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · 19d

Ugh - that hurts....

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Duncan Money @mininghistory.bsky.social · 20d

New book on the miners' strikes in Britain during the Second World War by Ariane Mak:

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Front cover of the book "En guerre et en grève. Enquêtes dans les cités minières britanniques (1939-1945)"
The image on the front cover is a black and white photo of two men walking on a road with a mine headgear behind them.

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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · 20d

Looking forward to the online round-table next week. Open to all!

www.eventbrite.ca/e/roundtable...

Roundtable: Is the Field of Deindustrialization Studies too One-Sided?

Join us to discuss Stefan Berger's article questioning the scope of deindustrialization studies

www.eventbrite.ca

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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · 23d

Two (2) MA fellowships at Concordia in deindustrialization studies.

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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · 24d

Happy to have a chapter in this excellent (albeit far too expensive) new book edited by Chris Fitzgerald that explores the intersection between oral history and linguistics.
www.bloomsbury.com/ca/linguisti...

Linguistics and Oral History

This edited volume brings together linguistic and oral history practitioners to explore the intersections between both disciplines. This book is comprised of co…

www.bloomsbury.com

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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · 29d

I've been researching Singapore's early (1950s-1970s) labour history as part of a wider study on US capital flight. Not recognized here is the link between the union movement and Singapore's People's Action Party which has been in power since 1959.

LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 29d

SINGAPORE: Why strikes rarely happen in Singapore as labour unrest rises worldwide www.ntuc.org.sg/dssu/news/Wh...

Why strikes rarely happen in Singapore as labour unrest rises worldwide

Once plagued by strikes in its early years, Singapore transformed labour relations through consensus and tripartism. While unrest disrupts industries abroad, Singapore’s unions and employers have kept industrial peace for decades.

www.ntuc.org.sg

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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · 29d

Congratulations - looks great!

Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · Sep 5

Glad to see that the Canadian government has suspended the clawback (imposed by Mulroney in the 80s) of displaced workers' severance pay. Now let's make this change permanent - it is fundamentally unfair!

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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Labour vote splitting as Canada's political parties shift policies to attract workers' support | CBC News

Where labour unions and workers were once a safe vote for the NDP, the party can no longer count on their support as Conservatives and Liberals shift policies to attract organized labour.

www.cbc.ca

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Between the Lines @btlbooks.com · Sep 1

A special Labour Day read!

"How Canadian women used unions to shape their lives for the better" by @peggynash.bsky.social and @jwhite54.bsky.social. Out today in the Globe and Mail Opinion column.

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Opinion: How Canadian women used unions to shape their lives for the better

Hostile work conditions often only changed when some women took on the extraordinary burden of refusing to leave

www.theglobeandmail.com

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