Rebel Life: The Life and Times of Robert Gosden, Revolutionary, Mystic, - Softcover
Canada’s west coast was rife with upheaval in the second and third decades of the twentieth century. At the centre of the turmoil is Robert Gosden, migrant labourer turned radical activist – turned police spy. In 1913, he publicly recommends assassinating Premier Richard McBride to resolve the miners’ strike. By 1919, he is urging Prime Minister Robert Borden to "disappear" key labour radicals to quelch rising discontent. What happened?
Rebel Life plumbs the enigma that was Gosden, but is it much more: an ideal introduction to BC labour history containing archival photograph and sidebars rich with historical arcana and a chapter outlining the research that unearthed Gosden’s story and a rich resource for instructors, students, and trade unionists.
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Mark Leier, an editor at Labour/Le Travail is the director of the Centre for Labour Studies at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, where he also teaches history. He is the author of two books, Where the River Flows: The Industrial Workers of the World in British Columbia and Red Flags and Red Tape and many academic papers on various labour issues. He lives in North Vancouver.
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- PublisherNew Star Books
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0921586698
- ISBN 13 9780921586692
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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