Mikhail Bjorge
Mikhail Bjorge is an assistant professor of History at Dalhousie University. Before arriving at Dalhousie, he taught history and political science at the University of Toronto and George Brown College. Holding a PhD from Queen’s University, he is primarily interested in the transnational nature of capitalism, work, and law, and writes broadly on political economy, labour, and enclosure.
Mikhail’s forthcoming book with the University of Toronto Press, The Workers War: Economic Democracy in Canada’s Industrial Homefront, 1939-1945, explores industrial unrest during the Second World War. With a particular focus on women, racialized minorities, and indigenous peoples, the study traces the diversity of shop floor militancy and working-class opposition to capitalism before the rise of the bureaucratic labour relations regime we know today.
Interested broadly in the global history of political economy, Dr. Bjorge’s ongoing research projects include Canadian macroeconomics, the matrixes of enclosure and colonialism, and labour unrest.