Alvin Finkel

ALVIN FINKEL is a founding member of the Alberta Labour History Institute, an emeritus professor of History at Athabasca University where he taught for 36 years and the past president of the Canadian Committee on Labour History.

He was the book review editor for the journal Labour/Le Travail for 11 years and is still a member of that journal’s editorial board. A prolific author, Alvin’s 13 books have sold over 150,000 copies. They include textbooks on Canadian history and the history of social policy as well as labour history and the history of the events leading to World War II. On the latter topic, he co-wrote The Chamberlain-Hitler Collusion with Clement Leibovitz (Lorimer 2011). He lives in Edmonton Alberta.

Books by Alvin Finkel

Humans: The 300,000 Year Struggle for Equality

Compassion

Our Lives

Working People in Alberta

The Chamberlain-Hitler Collusion

The The West and Beyond

The West and Beyond

Social Policy and Practice in Canada

Our Lives: Canada after 1945

The Social Credit Phenomenon

Business and Social Reform in the Thirties