Booklaunch: Out of the Impasse?

This launch of Herman Rosenfeld’s writings provides a vital record of socialist analysis rooted in the lived experiences of Canadian labour. Drawing on his background as a shop floor worker at General Motors in Scarborough and in the education department of the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW, now Unifor), this selection examines how a constantly changing capitalism seeks to reorganise workplace practices. And how, in resistance, working-class organisations must adapt, rebuild, and reimagine collective power. Across these essays, Rosenfeld argues that technological modernisations and economic “efficiencies” suggested by management are never value-neutral but rather political choices that reproduce class (and other) hierarchies unless challenged by workers and their representative organisations.

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Recorded 17 July 2026, Toronto.