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Steven High
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Professor of History at Concordia's Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. Current Project: Deindustrialization & the Politics of Our Time -- deindustrialization.org . New Book: The Left in Power: Bob Rae's NDP and the Working Class (Feb '25) .. more

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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · 1d
Spending the holidays working my way through Sven Beckert's 1300-page magnus opus. He is offering nothing short of a revisionist history of humanity - instead of nations and rulers this is a world history driven by traders and other capitalists. More Schumpeter than Marx, so far at least.
Capitalism by Sven Beckert: 9780735220836 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A New York Times Notable Book • A Financial Times Best Book of the Year "A learned, formidable and vivid story… Readers around the world will study and ponder this monumental work of history,...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · 5d
Instead of spending big money to recruit a few dozen academics from outside of Canada, I wish the Liberals invested in the outstanding talent coming out of our PhD programs. Postdocs could be extended (#, duration) for large numbers for the same price. It is top-down, headline seeking politics.

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 5d
CANADA: Karl Beveridge honours Carole Condé’s memory with historic donation to Workers Arts and Heritage Centre rabble.ca/arts/karl-be...
Karl Beveridge honours Carole Condé's memory with historic donation to Workers Arts and Heritage Centre
In memory of his wife, Karl Beveridge has made a donation to the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre.
rabble.ca

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Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social · 6d
I posted this👇 to a claim that genAI is better than Ctl+F to search historical docs. @tristanpalmgren.bsky.social replied with a genAI summary of my document and @bookllyfr.bsky.social asked if it was accurate.

It turns out that it did exactly what genAI does: made stuff up & got stuff wrong.🧵

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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · 8d
Simply heartless.... gutter politics at its worst. We are talking about disabled children here and families trying to make a new start. Shame on the Quebec government.
ledevoir.com Le Devoir @ledevoir.com · 8d
À quelques jours de Noël, des familles ont appris qu’elles ne recevraient plus cette précieuse aide financière.
Québec met fin à une aide aux enfants demandeurs d’asile handicapés
www.ledevoir.com

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Le Devoir @ledevoir.com · 8d
À quelques jours de Noël, des familles ont appris qu’elles ne recevraient plus cette précieuse aide financière.
Québec met fin à une aide aux enfants demandeurs d’asile handicapés
www.ledevoir.com

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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · 8d
Consultants, especially American ones, have no business shaping the future of postsecondary education in Canada. Chris Hurl wrote a great book on "The Consultant Trap", which speaks to their role in legitimating neoliberal shock therapy.

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Halifax Examiner @halifaxexaminer.ca · 9d
A firm with a reputation for recommending deep cuts and layoffs has been hired as a consultant to review Nova Scotia’s universities
Morning File by @timbousquet.bsky.social
A firm with a reputation for recommending deep cuts and layoffs has been hired as a consultant to review Nova Scotia's universities - Halifax Examiner
I don't like that university programs are having to justify themselves merely in terms of the jobs that students get after graduation.
www.halifaxexaminer.ca

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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · 10d
The ideological attack on the humanities and social sciences goes on. Interdisciplinary research centres are now being hit. This will have long-term repercussions. Very sad news.
willpjones.bsky.social Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · 10d
My PhD in US history was enriched immeasurably by the area studies centers at UNC. “The centers are a real core element of the institutional structure of the University. It's like saying, ‘Look, I can't afford to have two hands, so I'm gonna have to cut one off.’”
UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026
As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...
dailytarheel.com

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Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · 10d
My PhD in US history was enriched immeasurably by the area studies centers at UNC. “The centers are a real core element of the institutional structure of the University. It's like saying, ‘Look, I can't afford to have two hands, so I'm gonna have to cut one off.’”
UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026
As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...
dailytarheel.com

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Le Mouvement social @revue-lms.bsky.social · 11d
Appel à contributions pour la 2e édition des Journées du "Mouvement social" – "La désindustrialisation au village. Sources, mémoires et trajectoires ouvrières dans les mondes ruraux contemporains" – Université ULCO – 4-5 juin 2026 – Plus d'infos sur notre Carnet : lms.hypotheses.org/24361
La désindustrialisation au village. Sources, mémoires et trajectoires ouvrières dans les mondes ruraux contemporains
Appel à contributions pour la deuxième édition des Journées du Mouvement Social, 4-5 juin 2026
lms.hypotheses.org

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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · 12d
Just want to say thanks to my publisher BTL and to everyone who agreed to be interviewed for my book as well as the OHS awards committee.
btlbooks.com Between the Lines @btlbooks.com · 12d
Congratulations to Dr. Steven High. The Left in Power: Bob Rae’s NDP and the Working Class has won the Ontario Historical Society’s 2025 Best Scholarly Book Award: ontariohistoricalsociety.ca/wp-content/u...

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Between the Lines @btlbooks.com · 12d
Congratulations to Dr. Steven High. The Left in Power: Bob Rae’s NDP and the Working Class has won the Ontario Historical Society’s 2025 Best Scholarly Book Award: ontariohistoricalsociety.ca/wp-content/u...

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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · 12d
Great tenure-track job opportunity. atlas.workland.com/work/70383/p...
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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · 13d
One of the brilliant PhD students that I supervise, Derek Xavier Garcia, just had an article published in American Quarterly on “A Genealogy of Resistance on the Border: The Naming of Colegio Jacinto Treviño.” It can be found at the following link: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Project MUSE - A Genealogy of Resistance on the Border: The Naming of Colegio Jacinto Treviño
muse.jhu.edu

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Département de sociologie de l'UQAM @sociologieuqam.bsky.social · 13d
📢 Le Département de sociologie @uqam.ca a ouvert un 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲 𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗲 é𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲. L’offre d’emploi est en pj ainsi que disponible ici: www.rhu.uqam.ca/AffichagePro...

La date limite pour soumettre un dossier de candidature est le lundi 𝟮𝟲 𝗷𝗮𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 à 𝟭𝟳𝗵. N'hésitez pas à faire circuler l'info!

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Xavier Vigna @xvigna.bsky.social · 15d
@deindustrialpol.bsky.social @stevenhigh.bsky.social
afhmt.bsky.social Association française pour l'histoire des mondes du travail @afhmt.bsky.social · 15d
Journées du Mouvement : « La désindustrialisation au village. Sources, mémoires et trajectoires ouvrières dans les mondes ruraux contemporains »
4-5/6/26 Université du Littoral

AAC Jeunes chercheur.e.s
Propositions à envoyer avant le 15/02/26
[email protected]

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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · 15d
Winter weather is not usually recognized as a factor in plant closing struggles, but it is when a multinational fails to heat a 'temporarily idled' mill in a northern climate. Freezing pipes begin to burst and the community fears the mill will be forever ruined.
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Pulp mill owners urged to ‘step up’ and heat shuttered northwestern Ontario plant | CBC News
People in Terrace Bay are being supported in their calls for the owners of a pulp mill in the northwestern Ontario community to provide winter maintenance at the plant where operations came to a halt ...
www.cbc.ca

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Xavier Vigna @xvigna.bsky.social · 15d
Clothilde Dozier a réalisé une série formidable : "On va pas s'mentir" sur la lutte en cours des salariés d'Arcelor-Mittal pour le journal Fakir
L'ensemble des épisodes est visible ici :
fakirpresse.info/on-va-pas-sm...
Très vive recommandation sur l'actualité de la désindustrialisation
« On va pas s’mentir » #2 : Tenir la distance - fakirpresse.info
« Tenir la distance » : premier épisode de notre série sur la lutte des salariés d'ArcelorMittal
fakirpresse.info

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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · 16d
A fantastic call for proposals (with a clear historiographic intervention) - will be of interest to folks in deindustrialization studies. Only wish that I could be there for it!
@deindustrialpol.bsky.social

lms.hypotheses.org/24361
La désindustrialisation au village. Sources, mémoires et trajectoires ouvrières dans les mondes ruraux contemporains
Appel à contributions pour la deuxième édition des Journées du Mouvement Social, 4-5 juin 2026
lms.hypotheses.org

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Xavier Vigna @xvigna.bsky.social · 17d
Encore une branche industrielle qui disparaît du pays avec un projet de SCOP rejeté. Les salariés doivent désormais affronter une terrible épreuve
www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...
Brandt, le dernier fabricant de gros électroménager en France, est mis en liquidation ; plus de 700 emplois supprimés
Le tribunal des activités économiques n’a sélectionné aucun des projets de reprise de l’entreprise. Il n’a particulièrement pas retenu le dossier porté par les salariés, qui promettait de sauver 295 e...
www.lemonde.fr

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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · 18d
Congratulations to Tim Liebregt for successfully defending his excellent MA thesis today on "Bust Amid Boom: Automotive Plant Closures in Windsor, Ontario, 1945-1965." Bravo Tim!!

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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · 22d
Honoured to receive the Ontario Historical Society's Scholarly Book Prize at a lovely awards ceremony here in Toronto. Great to see Melissa Shaw receive the best article award for her outstanding piece on the Toronto UNIA.

Now at the airport waiting for my flight to Thunder Bay!
The Left in Power
Bob Rae’s NDP and the Working Class.
btlbooks.com

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Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time @deindustrialpol.bsky.social · 23d
Appel à candidatures - Devenez le nouveau ou la nouvel artiste en résidence de DePOT ! Une bourse de 16 000 dollars canadiens est offerte à un.e artiste ou à un groupe d'artistes explorant le thème de cette année, « La désindustrialisation et l'environnement ». Postulez avant le 15 janvier !
Artistes résidents – Deindustrialization
Le Programme d’Artistes résidents (AR) pour le projet DéPOT soutient le développement de projets créatifs qui abordent des thématiques liées aux racines historiques de la désindustrialisation et les…
deindustrialization.org

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Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time @deindustrialpol.bsky.social · 23d
Call for applications - Become DePOT's new Artist in Residence! CA$ 16,000 in funding is available for an artist or group of artists exploring this year's theme of Deindustrialization and the Environment - Apply by January 15!
Artists in Residence – Deindustrialization
The DePOT Artist in Residence (DePOT AIR) program supports creative engagements with the historical roots and lived experience of deindustrialization. We are interested in proposals that range across…
deindustrialization.org

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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · 29d
Very good news. I hope that Concordia's representatives did not speak in favour of the motion or vote for it, as the matter has never been brought up at CUFA Council. At our meeting on Monday, the oral report of our reps to CAUT said nothing much was happening.

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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · 29d
Concordia's Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS) has had a very close relationship with the Scottish Oral History Centre and its fabulous director Arthur McIvor for almost 2 decades. Here is a great piece on their work:
www.thenational.scot/news/2552704...
Thirty years of the Scottish Oral History Centre
ORAL history is the practice of gathering, preserving and interpreting the voices and memories of people, communities and participants
www.thenational.scot

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Steven High @stevenhigh.bsky.social · Nov 28
Paul Piche
Spirit of the West
The Pogues
Stompin Tom
Bruce Springsteen
{in that order]
cmedmoore.bsky.social Christopher Moore @cmedmoore.bsky.social · Nov 28
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen
Stan Rogers
Jully Black
McGarrigle Sisters
Bruce Cockburn
Rolling Stones
camerondotca.bsky.social Cameron Campbell @camerondotca.bsky.social · Nov 28
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Fugazi
Beastie Boys
7 Seconds
Circle Jerks
NOMEANSNO
(I wish this was longer than 5)

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Christopher Moore @cmedmoore.bsky.social · Nov 28
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen
Stan Rogers
Jully Black
McGarrigle Sisters
Bruce Cockburn
Rolling Stones
camerondotca.bsky.social Cameron Campbell @camerondotca.bsky.social · Nov 28
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Fugazi
Beastie Boys
7 Seconds
Circle Jerks
NOMEANSNO
(I wish this was longer than 5)
brainchain.ca Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · Nov 28
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:

Fugazi
Broken Social Scene
Charli XCX
Blue Rodeo
Nick Cave

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · Nov 26
A study from a Welsh university has shed new light on the stark legacy of deindustrialisation in Wales and its impact on the mental health of the population
Study reveals stark impact of deindustrialisation on mental health in Wales
A study from a Welsh university has shed new light on the stark legacy of deindustrialisation in Wales and its impact on the mental health of the population. The paper, by Dr Christopher Saville of Ba...
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