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Join us Friday, August 16, 2019, 9 am to 4:45 pm for the second Politics of Libraries Conference, Labour in Libraries. Register here.

Location: Education South, Room 122, University of Alberta

2019 marks two important centennials in Canadian labour history. In the aftermath of the Great War, labour activists across Canada were concerned by low wages and poor working conditions. These issues culminated in the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, quashed on “Bloody Saturday” (June 21), which remains a red letter day in Canadian labour history a century later. In Alberta, 1919 also marks the establishment of the Civil Service Association of Alberta (now the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees), which has become the province’s largest union over the past 100 years.

Reflecting a century after these two important events in Canadian labour history, and looking to the field of library and archives, what is the state of labour in libraries and archives today?

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