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.

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  Humans: The 300,000-Year Struggle for Equality

  Alvin Finkel

  For 300,000 years humans have pushed for equality in their societies. For the first time ever, historian Alvin Finkel brings together the evidence to tell the story of the 99% who have constantly sought to live in a society of equals.

  $25.95, Paperback
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  Our Lives: Canada after 1945

  Alvin Finkel

  The people, forces, and events that have shaped post-war Canada

  $29.95, Paperback
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  The Chamberlain-Hitler Collusion

  Alvin Finkel, Clement Leibovitz, Christopher Hitchens

  This book shows that Chamberlain and other British leaders welcomed Nazism as an alternative to Communism.

  $24.95, Paperback
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  Business and Social Reform in the Thirties

  Alvin Finkel

  This book challenges the commonly accepted view that governments enacted social reforms in the 1930s in response to demands for more equitable redistribution of wealth in a time of trouble, robbing from the rich to give to the poor.

  $16.95, Paperback