NEWS
​​"Standing Up to Big Nickel: The Story of the Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers' Strike, 1958" -- Elizabeth Quinlan's book on the 1958 Inco strike in Sudbury -- is now available from McGill-Queen's University Press.​
This newly released book is a comprehensive portrait of a pivotal strike. ​​
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​​​Interview about the book:
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​CBC Morning North with Markus Schwabe
"New book examines the Mine Mill Worker's strike in Sudbury in 1958"
(Aired June 23/25. Runs 8 min.)
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Note on the book's cover:
The stunning cover of the book features a detail from a mural painted by Canadian artist Henry Orenstein (1918-2008). It was reproduced with the permission of his daughter, Sarah Orenstein. The mural is proudly maintained by Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers' Union/ Unifor Local 598 in Sudbury. For some years, many outside of Sudbury thought this mural had been destroyed by fire. For more information on that story and photographs of the entire mural, recently , please see:
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Henry Orenstein's Mine Mill Local 598 (1956): A Correction and Reproduction
by Elizabeth Quinlan, Labour / Le Travail, Issue 95, Spring 2025, pp. 237-240.
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(Please note: Labour/Le Travail makes all but the two most recent issues of its journal available to readers free of charge. That means this article will be available only to subscribers and library users until after Issue 97 has been released, at which point it will be available to all.)​​
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The Spring 2024 edition of Labour/Le Travail (Journal of Canadian Labour Studies) features a piece by Dr. Elizabeth Quinlan titled, "Making Space for Creativity: Cultural Initiatives of Sudbury's Mine Mill Local 598 in the Postwar Era." (Volume 93 (2024) Labour/Le Travail)​​
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​June 24, 2025
We would like to thank Books & Beans in Sudbury for hosting the warm and wonderful book launch for Standing Up to Big Nickel on Monday, June 23, 7-9 pm.
We also wish to thank Bay Used Books in Sudbury for hosting Elizabeth Quinlan's lovely book signing event on Sunday June 22, from 11am to 4pm.
Your hospitality is greatly appreciated. It means a great deal to launch this book in the community where the story all began. Above all, thank you to everyone in Sudbury who contributed to this project!
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May 14, 2024
We are currently looking to talk to anyone who may have heard stories or have memories of Falconbridge's mine, mill, and smelter operations in the Sudbury area in the late 1950s or early 1960s. Any details you recall could be important. For more information, please see our Falconbridge Wildcat Strike page (under Research Projects). To get in touch or share your stories, please email quinlanprojects@usask.ca or call 306-227-4039.​
​​​March 27, 2024
A newly created Video Showcase features some of the trailers and promo footage produced for the stage play,With Glowing Hearts, by playwright Jennifer Wynne Webber. That play is based on Dr. Quinlan's research into the Mine Mill & Smelter Workers' Union and its Ladies Auxiliaries.
Watch the Video Showcase here: With Glowing Hearts Promo Showcase
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Nov. 7, 2023
Research related videos are now featured on our newly launched "Quinlan Projects" Vimeo channel at:
https://vimeo.com/quinlanprojects
May 27, 2023
Watch the video of the Participatory Theatre forum to address workplace harassment among Saskatchewan's direct healthcare workers.
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June 20, 2022
Watch Dr. Quinlan's address to the Annual Memorial to the four miners killed in a cave-in at Falconbridge Mines, Sudbury Ontario, June 20, 1984.
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May 2021
The British Sociological Association announces SAGE Prize for Innovation / Excellence
2021 Winners:
Elizabeth Quinlan, Susan Robertson, Ann-Marie Urban,
Isobel Findlay,& Beth Bilson.