| dc.contributor.author | Finkel, Alvin | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-06-23T19:08:04Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-06-23T19:08:04Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-06-23T19:08:04Z | |
| dc.identifier.other | Sharing Authority: Building Community in University Alliances Through Oral History, Digital Storytelling and Collaboration Conference in Montreal, QC, February 7-10, 2008 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2149/2602 | |
| dc.description | First off, the paper I presented is attached. It's really a half paper since Jeff Taylor presented the first part of a joint address regarding the Alberta Labour History Institute and I presented the specific example of our work with the Celanese Workers Commemoration Project, my speaking notes for which I have attached.
This was a successful conference and I think that I was one of the key participants, asking questions and making comments in several sessions. The papers that Jeff and I submitted received a warm welcome with many questions and a number of compliments afterwards.
During the conference, Jeff and I suggested to the conference organizer, Steven High, that it would be valuable to have him visit both AU and ALHI to discuss issues in oral history. Since that time, Frits Pannekoek has agreed to provide funding for such a visit. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Over the past 8 years, the Alberta Labour History Institute (ALHI) has produced videos and transcriptions of over 200 interviews with trade union leaders, activists, and rank-and-filers in an effort to produce a workers' history of their work and community lives. ALHI plans several hundred more interviews in the next several years as a result of partnership agreements with the Alberta Federation of Labour and other organizations. ALHI is a volunteer organization consisting of trade unionists, academics, and other interested parties. As in any such organization engaged in popular history, the activists have different understandings of the purpose of oral history interviews, who is to be interviewed, the kinds of questions to be asked, and how, if at all, the interviews should be interpreted. This paper will present the views of two academics with a long history of participation in ALHI on the academic activist "take" on these issues and the extent to which compromises between academic and popular historians, both having a commitment to preserving histories of class struggle, are possible and desirable. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | AVPR Special Research Opportunities & Academic & Professional Development Fund (A&PDF) | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 28.286.ACRF.D126; | |
| dc.title | Collaborating with Unions to Tell the Workers’ Story: the Celanese Edmonton Workers’ Commemoration Project | en |
| dc.type | Presentation | en |
