James Naylor

B.A., M.A. (Manitoba), Ph.D. (York)

Associate Professor

Telephone: (204) 727-9664
Email: naylor@BrandonU.ca
Office: 309 Clark Hall

Research Interests:

• Twentieth Century Social Movements
• Currently working on a study of transformation of radicalism and in perceptions of social class in English Canada, 1930-1950.

Teaching Interests:

• Social History and World History

Publications:

“The Labour Market and Capitalist Development in Winnipeg” in Silva Rerum:  A Collection of Scholarly Papers to honour A.B. Pernal, (L’viv:  National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2007).

“Canadian Labour Politics and the British Model,” in Phillip Buckner and R. Douglas Francis, eds., Canada and the British World: Culture, Migration, and Identity, (University of British Columbia Press, 2006)

“Work Life,” in Canada: Confederation to Present (CD-Rom), (Edmonton: Chinook Multimedia, 2001).

“Prairie Fire Fizzles,” (with Tom Mitchell), in Labour/Le Travail, 45 (Spring, 2000).

“Southern Ontario:  Striking at the Ballot Box,” and “The Prairies:  In the Eye of the Storm” (with Tom Mitchell) in Craig Heron, ed., The Workers’ Revolt in Canada, 1917-1925, (University of Toronto Press, 1998).

“Pacifism or Anti-Imperialism?  The CCF Response to the Outbreak of World War II” in Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, 6 (1997).

“Bring Which State In?” Labour/Le Travail, 36 (Fall 1995), 317-328.

“Workers and the State: Experiments in Corporatism after World War One,” in Studies in Political Economy, 42 (Autumn 1993).

The New Democracy: Challenging the Social Order in Industrial Ontario, 1914-1925 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991).

Assistant Editor, Labour/Le Travail

Courses Taught:

• 54:155    Canada to Confederation
• 54:156    Canada Since Confederation
• 54:154    World History since 1500
• 54:257    Making of the Modern World I: 1870-1939
• 54:258    Making of the Modern World II: 1939 to the Present
• 54:278    The History of Québec since 1759
• 54:282    Social History I: Class, Power, and Institutions
• 54:360    Social Movements of the 1960s
• 54:372    Aspects of the History of Women and Gender
• 54:383    Social History II:  Family, Ethnicity, and Leisure
• 54:437    Historical Methods and Historiography
• 54:453    The Great Depression