Working People in Alberta

Alvin Finkel is Professor of History, Athabasca University.

Jason Foster is assistant professor of human resources and labour relations at Athabasca University. He was previously the director of policy analysis at the Alberta Federation of Labour where he spent more than a decade as an occupational health and safety practitioner, advocate, and educator. Bob Barnetson is a professor of labour relations at Athabasca University. He is the author of The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada (2010) and coeditor of Farm Workers in Western Canada: Injustice and Activism (2016). His research focuses on the political economy of workplace injuries, with particular attention to child, migrant, and farm workers. Formerly, Bob worked for a trade union, the Alberta Workers’ Compensation Board, the Alberta Labour Relations Board, and Alberta Employment and Immigration.

James Muir is an associate professor in the Department of History and Classics as well as the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta.

Eric Strikwerda teaches Canadian history at theUniversity of Alberta and labour studies/industrial relations atAthabasca University.