Publications
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My debut at Toronto Mike’d podcast
I had a great chat at Toronto Mike’d podcast, talking about my new book. Here is the full episode.
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Book launch event at Museum of Toronto, October 7
The Museum of Toronto, located on 401 Richmond St. West, is hosting a reception celebrating the release of my new book Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks on October 7, starting at 6:30pm. This is a free event. Here is the RSVP: https://museumoftoronto.com/event/book-reception-militants-mobsters-and-mavericks/ All are welcome!
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Announcing my new book! Militants, Mobsters, and Mavericks: The Men Who Built Toronto in the 1960s-70s.
I am thrilled to announce that my new book Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks: The Men Who Built Modern Toronto in the 1960s–70s, published by Lorimer, is finally out and available in every major bookstore. This is a gripping look at the underbelly of Toronto’s explosive postwar growth in the 1960s and 1970s, at a time…
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New article “Gendering ‘Intelligent’ Machines” in Technology and Culture
My fourth and final article to come out of my research project Laborem Ex Machina: A History of Construction Machinery and Operating Engineers in Canada was published in the October issue of Technology and Culture. Find it here: “Gendering ‘Intelligent’ Machines:How Operating Engineers Constructed their Masculinity,” Technology and Culture 66: 4 (2025): 1111-41 Keywords: Advertising; children and youth; literature; unions; war;…
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New article “Part of the Solution? Indigenous Apprentices and the Unionized Building Trades” in Labour / Le Travail
My third article to come out of my research project Laborem Ex Machina: A History of Construction Machinery and Operating Engineers in Canada was published in the Spring issue of Labour / Le Travail. Find it here: “Part of the Solution? Indigenous Apprentices and the Unionized Building Trades: The Way of the International Union of Operating…
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We Are What We Eat: A Review of “The Human Cost of Food” Digital Exhibition
I was asked to write a review of the digital exhibition The Human Cost of Food, curated by Ed Dunsworth and a team of undergraduate and graduate students at McGill University. This is a great example of public/active history about Canada’s temporary migrant worker program, its built-in cruelty, and the lives of those most affected…
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New article “As Ceaseless as the Sea: How Modern Construction Machines Disrupted Canadian Senses and Sensibilities, 1870s–1940s” in Technology and Culture
My second article to come out of my research project Laborem Ex Machina: The History of Operating Engineers and Heavy Machinery in Canada’s Construction Industry was published in the January issue of Technology and Culture, the flagship journal in the field of history of technology. Find it here: “As Ceaseless as the Sea: How Modern…
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New article “Reshaping the Ways of Commerce and Civilization” in the Journal of History
My first article to come out of my research project Laborem Ex Machina: The History of Operating Engineers and Heavy Machinery in Canada’s Construction Industry” was published in the December issue of Journal of History. Find it here: “Reshaping the Ways of Commerce and Civilization: Modern Construction Machines and the Building of Canada’s Mobility Infrastructure, 1860s–1920s,” Journal of History 58: 2–3 (December…
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