Apart from Indigenous people, who have lived here for countless thousands of years, Alberta workers are immigrants from all over the world. The Alberta Labour History Institute 2026 Calendar has as its theme, “A History of Immigrant Workers in Alberta.” Its focus is on the contribution of various immigrant groups of immigrant workers, the racism and exploitation that workers have faced in different periods, and the resilience and militancy of immigrant workers throughout our history. This theme is particularly timely today because of a new explosion of anti-immigrant propaganda that needs to be understood in the context of past racist bouts of anti-immigrant hysteria. An encouraging development that we trace is the trade union movement’s conversion over time from racist stereotyping of non-white immigrants to becoming a leader in the human rights movement.
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