Department of History

Michael Bjorge

Department of History

Email: bjorge@dal.ca
Mailing Address:

Room 3054, Department of History, Dalhousie University, 6135 University Avenue, PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS

Research Topics:

The Workers’ War: Economic Democracy and Canada’s Industrial Homefront, 1939-1945. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

“The Edmonton General Strike,” in James Naylor, Rhonda Hinther, and Jim Mochoruk eds., For a Better World: The Winnipeg General Strike and the Workers’ Revolt (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2022), 115-139.
“No Model Minority: Tear Gas, Bayonets, Strikes, Resistance, Riot, and Struggle in Japanese Internment Camps,” in Rhonda Hinther and Jim Mochoruk, eds., Civilian Internment in Canada: Histories and Legacies (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2020), 180-208.
“Anti-Foreign Strikes and the Patriotic Shield: Direct Action, Canadian Workers, and the Struggle Against the Employment of ‘Enemy Aliens’ in WWII,” in Steven Marti and William Pratt, eds., Fighting with the Empire: Canada, Britain, and Global Conflict, 1867-1947 (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2019), 142-165.
“‘They Shall Not Die!’ Anarchists, Syndicalists, Communists, and the Sacco and Vanzetti Solidarity Campaign in Canada,” Labour/Le Travail 75 (Spring 2015): 43–73.