Triumph and Solidarity
372 pages, 6 x 9
20 b&w photos
Paperback
Release Date:18 Feb 2025
ISBN:9781771993951
Triumph and Solidarity
BC Communists in the Early Years of the Great Depression
By Jon Bartlett
SERIES:
Athabasca University Press
British Columbia was the site of some of the most significant events in the history of the labour movement and had some of the best-organized and most politically conscious communist workers. In this illuminating volume, Jon Bartlett follows the activities of BC Communists from the onset of the Great Depression to the coming of the Popular Front and investigates the collisions between these Communists and the organs of the federal, provincial, and municipal governments. Reflecting on the vectors of cultural resistance, from the creation of vernacular newspapers to the circulation of popular song and verse, Bartlett charts workers’ efforts to resist wage cutbacks in mines, mills, and the logging and fishing industries and describes the organization of opposition to the relief camps and its outcomes.
Jon Bartlett's areas of interest are labour history and vernacular song. He is co-author with Rika Ruebsaat of Dead Horse on the Tulameen: Settler Verse from BC’s Similkameen Valley (2011) and Soviet Princeton: Slim Evans and the 1932–33 Miners’ Strike (2015). Also with Rika Ruebsaat, Bartlett has sung and produced seven albums of traditional Canadian song, founded and organized a traditional music festival, and presented workshops and lectures in schools and universities.
