Websites
Nova Scotia Archives, “Men in the Mines”
Mining Accidents
Anderson, Frank. 1969. Canada’s Worst Mine Disaster. Calgary: Frontier Books.
Bercuson, David. 1978. “Tragedy at Bellevue: Anatomy of a Mine Disaster.” Labour/Le Travail 3: 221–31.
Buckley, Karen Lynne. 2004. Danger, Death and Disaster in the Crowsnest Pass Mines, 1902-1928. Calgary: University of Calgary Press.
Dodd, Susan. 2006. “Blame and Causation in the Aftermath of Industrial Disasters: Nova Scotia’s Coal Mines from 1858 to Westray.” In The Politics of Recognition and Response, edited by Eric Tucker, 237–76. Amityville, N.Y.: Baywoood Publishing Company.
Farrenkopf, Michael. 2019. “Accidents and Mining: The Problem of the Risk of Explosion in Industrial Coal Mining in Global Perspective.” In Making Sense of Mining History: Themes and Agendas, edited by Stefan Berger and Peter Alexander, 193–211. London: Routledge.
Sandlos, John. 2024. “The Accidental Underground: Death and Injury in Ontario’s Mining Industry,” in Megan J. Davies and Geoffrey Hudson, eds. An Accidental History of Canada. Kingston and Montreal, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 61-88.
Whiteside, James. 1990. Regulating Danger: The Struggle for Mine Safety in the Rocky Mountain Coal Industry. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Smelters and Pollution
Kuhlberg, Mark, and Scott Miller. 2018. “‘Protection to the Sulphur-Smoke Tort-Feasors’: The Tragedy of Pollution in Sudbury, Ontario, the World’s Nickel Capital, 1884-1927.” Canadian Historical Review 99 (2): 225-257.
LeCain, Tim. 2000. “The Limits of ‘Eco-Efficiency’: Arsenic Pollution and the Cottrell Electrical Precipitator in the U.S. Copper Smelting Industry.” Environmental History 5 (3): 336–51.
LeCain, Tim. 2004. “When Everybody Wins Does the Environment Lose? The Environmental Techno-Fix in Twentieth-Century American Mining.” In The Technological Fix: How People Use Technology to Create and Solve Problems, edited by Lisa Rosner, 137–54. New York: Routledge.
Leddy, Lianne. 2021. Serpent River Resurgence: Confronting Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Munton, Don, and Owen Temby. 2015. “Smelter Fumes, Local Interests, and Political Contestation in Sudbury, Ontario, during the 1910s.” Urban History Review 44 (1-2): 24-36.
Wirth, John D. 2000. Smelter Smoke in North America: The Politics of Transborder Pollution. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas.
Occupational Health
Clavette, Suzanne. 2005. Les dessous d’Asbestos: une lutte idéologique contre la participation des Travailleurs. Sainte-Foy, Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval.
Cousineau, Jacques. 1958. Réflexions en marge de “La Grève de l’amiante”: contribution critique à une recherche. Les Cahiers de l’Institut social populaire ; no. 4. Montréal: Institut social populaire.
Delisle, Esther, and Pierre K. Malouf. 2004. Le Quatuor d’Asbestos: Autour de la grève de l’amiante. Collection Histoire et société. Montréal: Éditions Varia.
Derickson, Alan. 1988. “Industrial Refugees: The Migration of Silicotics from the Mines of North America and South Africa in the Early 20th Century.” Labor History 29 (1): 66–89.
Forestell, N. M. 2006. “‘And I Feel Like I’m Dying from Mining for Gold’: Disability, Gender, and the Mining Community, 1920-1950.” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 3 (3): 77–93.
Hogaboarn, Dieter Grant. 1997. “Compensation and Control: Silicosis in the Hardrock Mining Industry, 1921-1974.” PhD thesis, Queen’s University.
Jorgenson, Mica, and John Sandlos. 2021. “Dust versus Dust: Aluminum Therapy and Silicosis in the Canadian and Global Mining Industries.” Canadian Historical Review 102 (1): 1–26.
Létourneau, Jocelyn. 1991. “La grève de l’amiante entre ses mémoires et l’histoire.” Oral History Forum d’histoire orale 11: 8–16.
Leyton, Elliott. 1974. Dying Hard: Industrial Carnage in St. Lawrence, Newfoundland. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
MacDowell, Laurel Sefton. 2012. “The Elliot Lake Uranium Miners’ Battle to Gain Occupational Health and Safety Improvements, 1950-1980.” Labour/Le Travail, 69: 91–118.
McCulloch, Jock. 2011. “Air Hunger: The 1930 Johannesburg Conference and the Politics of Silicosis.” History Workshop Journal 72 (1): 118–37.
McCulloch, Jock. 2012. South Africa’s Gold Mines and the Politics of Silicosis. Oxford: James Curry.
Rennie, Richard. 2008. The Dirt: Industrial Carnage and Conflict at St. Lawrence, Newfoundland. Toronto: Brunswick Books.
Rosner, David, and Gerald Markowitz, eds. 1987. Dying for Work: Workers’ Safety and Health in Twentieth-Century America. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press.
Rosner, David, and Gerald Markowitz. 1991. Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in Twentieth-Century America. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Sellers, Chris. 1994. “Factory as Environment: Industrial Hygiene, Professional Collaboration and the Modern Sciences of Pollution.” Environmental History Review 18 (1): 55–83.
Sellers, Chris. 1997. Hazards of the Job: From Industrial Disease to Environmental Health Science. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Storey, R., and W. Lewchuk. 2000. “From Dust to Dust: Asbestos and the Struggle for Worker Health and Safety at Bendix Automotive.” Labour/LeTravail 45: 103–140.
Storey, Robert. 2004. “From the Environment to the Workplace . . . and Back Again? Occupational Health and Safety Activism in Ontario, 1970s-2000+.” Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 41 (4): 419–47.
Works that Address Multiple Project Themes
Andrews, Thomas G. 2008. Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Angus, Charlie. 2022. Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower. Toronto: House of Anansi.
Angus, Charlie, and Brit Griffin. 1996. We Lived a Life and Then Some: The Life, Death and Life of a Mining Town. Toronto Ont.: Between The Lines.
Baldwin, Doug. 1977. “A Study in Social Control: The Life of the Silver Miner in Northern Ontario.” Labour / Le Travail 2: 79–106.
Baldwin, Douglas O., and David F. Duke. 2005. “‘A Grey Wee Town’: An Environmental History of Early Silver Mining at Cobalt, Ontario.” Urban History Review 34 (1): 71–87.
Barnes, Michael. 1986. Fortunes in the Ground: Cobalt, Porcupine and Kirkland Lake. Erin, Ontario: Boston Mills Press.
Belshaw, John Douglas. 2002. Colonization and Community: The Vancouver Island Coalfield and the Making of the British Columbian Working Class. McGill-Queen’s Studies in Ethnic History. Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Baldwin, Doug. 1977. “A Study in Social Control: The Life of the Silver Miner in Northern Ontario.” Labour / Le Travail 2: 79–106.
Bowen, Lynne. 2002. Boss Whistle: The Coal Miners of Vancouver Island Remember. Nanaimo: Rocky Point Books
Hinde, John Roderick. 2003. When Coal Was King: Ladysmith and the Coal-Mining Industry on Vancouver Island. Vancouver: UBC Press.
Jorgenson, Mica. 2023. The Weight of Gold: Mining and the Environment in Ontario, Canada, 1909-1929. University of Nevada Press.
Leech, Brian. 2018. The City That Ate Itself: Butte, Montana and Its Expanding Berkeley Pit. Reno: University of Nevada Press.
MacDowell, Laurel Sefton. 2001. Remember Kirkland Lake: The Gold Miners’ Strike of 1941-42. Rev. ed. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press.
McKay, Ian. 1986. “The Realm of Uncertainty: The Experience of Work in the Cumberland Coal Mines, 1873-1927.” Acadiensis 16 (1): 3–57.
McNeill, J.R., and George Vrtis, eds. 2017. Mining North America: An Environmental History Since 1522. Oakland: University of California Press.
Montrie, Chad. 2003. To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Mountford, Benjamin, and Stephen Tuffnell, eds. 2018. A Global History of Gold Rushes. Oakland: University of California Press.
Newsome, Eric. 1989. The Coal Coast: The History of Coal Mining in B.C., 1835-1900. Orca Book Publishers.
Sandlos, John, and Arn Keeling. 2021. Mining Country: A History of Canada’s Mines and Miners. Toronto: James Lorimer & Co.
Van Horssen, Jessica. 2016. A Town Called Asbestos: Environmental Contamination, Health, and Resilience in a Resource Community. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
Walker, Brett. 2010. Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan. Seattle: University of Washington Press.