Rebel Life by Mark Leier

Rebel Life: The Life and Times of Robert Gosden, Revolutionary, Mystic, Labour Spy

  • Mark Leier
  • Non-Fiction
  • 256 pages, 6×9 inches
  • Price: $21 CAD · $21 USD
  • ISBN: 9781554200580
  • Date published: 2013-07-04
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About Rebel Life

Extensively revised throughout and including a chapter of new material, Rebel Life chronicles the life of labour organizer, revolutionary, anarchist and labour spy Robert Gosden. Mark Leier's revisions incorporate new information about Gosden's career that has come to light since the first edition was published in 1999.

Canada's west coast was rife with upheaval in the second and third decades of the twentieth century. At the centre of the turmoil is Robert Gosden, migrant labourer turned radical activist

About Mark Leier

Mark Leier, an editor at Labour/Le Travail, is the director of the Centre for Labour Studies at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC, where he also teaches history. He is the author of Bakunin: The Creative Passion, a biography of the 19th century anarchist thinker; Red Flags And Red Tape; and Where The Fraser River Flows. He lives in North Vancouver.

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