Edward Dunsworth
Canada and the World, Migration, Labour, 1900-today
Winter 2024:
Tuesday 11:00-12:00pm
I am a historian of migration and labour with a particular interest in studying Canada within a global context. My first book, , was published in 2022 by 不良研究所-Queen鈥檚 University Press. The book uses a case study of farm labour in southwestern Ontario鈥檚 tobacco sector to advance a significant reinterpretation of the histories of farm labour and temporary foreign worker programs in Canada.
A second book, the result of a collaboration with Gabriel Allahdua (a migrant farm worker-turned-activist from Saint Lucia) to produce his memoir, will be released in March 2023 with Between the Lines. That book is titled, .
An active public historian, I am a member of the editorial collective at Activehistory.ca, a founding member of the Toronto Workers鈥� History Project, and a frequent author of articles for broader audiences.
My next major project is a history of immigration politics in Canada.
Harvesting Labour: Tobacco and the Global Making of Canada鈥檚 Agricultural Workforce (Montreal: 不良研究所-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2022)
Gabriel Allahdua, with Edward Dunsworth, Harvesting Freedom: The Life of a Migrant Worker in Canada (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2023)
鈥溾�楳e a free man鈥�: resistance and racialisation in the Canada-Caribbean Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program,鈥� Oral History 49, no. 1 (Spring 2021): 71-82.
鈥淩ace, Exclusion, and Archival Silences in the Seasonal Migration of Tobacco Workers from the Southern United States to Ontario,鈥� Canadian Historical Review 99, no. 4 (Dec. 2018): 563-93.
鈥淕reen Gold, Red Threats: Organization and Resistance in Depression-Era Ontario Tobacco,鈥� Labour/Le Travail 79 (Spring 2017): 105-142.