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Published Work

Books

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Jordan Stanger-Ross and Pamela Sugiman (eds.), Witness to Loss: Race, Culpability, and Memory in the Dispossession of Japanese Canadians. Montreal: McGill Queen’s University Press, 2017. 

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Sugiman, Pamela H. Labour’s Dilemma: The Gender Politics of Auto Workers in Canada, 1937-1979. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. Second printing in 1997.  

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Journal Articles

Sugiman, Pamela. “`Life is Sweet’: Vulnerability and Composure in the Wartime Narratives of Japanese Canadians,” Journal of Canadian Studies, 43(1): 186-218, 2009.

Sugiman, Pamela. “`A Million Hearts from Here’: Japanese Canadian Mothers and Daughters and the Lessons of War,” Journal of American Ethnic History, Summer Issue: 50-68, 2007.

Sugiman, Pamela. “These Feelings that Fill My Heart’: Japanese Canadian Women’s Memories of Internment,” Oral History, 34(2): 69-84, 2006.

Sugiman, Pamela. “Passing Time, Moving Memories: Interpreting Wartime Narratives of Japanese Canadian Women,” Histoire Sociale/Social History, 36(73): 51-79, 2004.

 

Sugiman, Pamela. “Memories of Internment: Narrating the Life Stories of Japanese Canadian Women,” Canadian Journal of Sociology, 29(3): 359-88, 2004.

Sugiman, Pamela. “Privilege and Oppression: The Configuration of Race, Gender, and Class in Southern Ontario Auto Plants, 1939 to 1949.” Labour Le Travail, 47 (Spring): 83-113, 2002.

      

Fox, Bonnie and Pamela Sugiman. “Flexible Work, Flexible Workers: The Restructuring of Clerical Work in a Large Telecommunications Company,” Studies in Political Economy, 60, Autumn, 59-84, 1999.

 

Sugiman, Pamela. “`That Wall’s Comin’ Down’: Gendered Strategies of Worker Resistance in the UAW Canadian Region (1963-1970).” Canadian Journal of Sociology, Vol. 17, No. 1, 1-27, 1992.

       

Sugiman, Pamela and Harry K. Nishio, “Socialization and Cultural Duality Among Aging Japanese Canadians,” Canadian Ethnic Studies, Vol. 15, No. 3: 17-35, 1983.

        

Sugiman, Pamela. “The Sales Clerks: Worker Discontent and Obstacles to its Collective Expression.” Atlantis, Vol. 8, No. 1, 13-33, 1982.

Articles in Peer Reviewed Books

Sugiman, Pamela. “I Can Hear Lois Now: Corrections to My Story of the Internment of Japanese Canadians - `For the Record.’” In Stacey Zembrzycki and Anna Sheftel (eds.), Oral History Off the Record. Unspoken Negotiations in the Practice of Oral History. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 149-67, 2013.

         

Sugiman, Pamela. “Days You Remember: Japanese Canadian Women and the Violations of Internment.” In Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed and Nazilla Khanlo  (eds.), Not Born a Refugee Woman. How Refugee Women Reclaim their Identities in Research, Education, Policy and Creativity.  New York: Berghahn Books, pp.113-134, 2008.

           

Sugiman, Pamela. “The Unmaking of a Transnational Community: Japanese Canadian Families in Wartime Canada.” In Lloyd Wong and Victor Satzewich (eds.), Negotiating Borders and Belonging: Transnational Identities and Practices in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, pp. 52-68, 2006.

           

Sugiman, Pamela. “Understanding Silence: Finding Meaning in the Oral Testimonies of Nisei Women in Canada.” In Changing Japanese Identities in Multicultural Canada. Selected Conference Proceedings. Centre for Asia Pacific Initiatives, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, pp. 353-63, 2003.

           

Sugiman, Pamela H. “Unionism and Feminism in the Canadian Auto Workers Union (1965-92). In Women Challenging Unions. Linda Briskin and Patricia McDermott (eds.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 172-88, 1993.

Articles Reprinted In Books

Sugiman, Pamela. “Days You Remember: Japanese Canadian Women and the Violations of Internment.” Abridged version In Franca Iacovetta and Marlene Epp (eds.), Sisters or Strangers. Immigrant, Ethnic and Racialized Women in Canadian History. Second edition. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007.

  

Sugiman, Pamela. “`A Million Hearts from Here’: Japanese Canadian Mothers and Daughters and the Lessons of War.” In Tamara Myers, Lara Campbell and Adele Perry (eds.), Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women’s History. 7th edition, Oxford University Press, 2007.

        

Sugiman, Pamela. “I Can Hear Lois Now: Corrections to My Story of the Internment of Japanese Canadians.” Abridged version In Nolan Reilly, Alexander Freund and Kristina Llewellyn (eds.), The Canadian Oral History Reader. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, pp. 297-317, 2015.

  

Sugiman, Pamela. “Privilege and Oppression: The Configuration of Race, Gender, and Class in Southern Ontario Auto Plants, 1939 to 1949.” In Michael S. Kimmel, Amy Aronson, and Amy Kaler (eds.), The Gendered Society Reader. Second Canadian Edition.  Toronto: Oxford University Press, pp. 273-81, 2011.

  

Sugiman, Pamela. “Passing Time, Moving Memories: Interpreting Wartime Narratives of Japanese Canadian Women.” In Adele Perry, Mona Gleason, and Tamara Meyers (eds.), Rethinking Canada. The Promise of Women’s History. Sixth edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2010.

      

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Sugiman, Pamela. “Privilege and Oppression: The Configuration of Race, Gender, and Class in Southern Ontario Auto Plants, 1939 to 1949” In James Opp and John C. Walsh (eds.), Home, Work, and Play: Situating Canadian Social History, 1840- 1980, Second edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press, pp. 185-200, 2010.

         

Sugiman, Pamela. “Becoming `Union-Wise.’” In Bryan D. Palmer and Joan Sangster (eds.), Labouring Canada. Class, Gender, and Race in Canadian Working-Class History. Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press, pp. 333-346, 2008. 

  

Sugiman, Pamela. “Privilege and Oppression: The Configuration of Race, Gender, and Class in Southern Ontario Auto Plants, 1939 to 1949.” Abridged. In Michael Kimmel, Amy Aronson and Amy Kaleri (eds.), “The Gendered Society Reader. First Canadian Edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press, pp. 280-88, 2008.

 

Sugiman, Pamela. “Passing Time, Moving Memories: Interpreting Wartime Narratives of Japanese Canadian Women.” In Adele Perry and Mona Gleason (eds.), Rethinking Canada. The Promise of Women’s History. Fifth edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press, pp. 242-63, 2006.

  

Sugiman, Pamela. “Memories of Internment: Narrating the Life Stories of Japanese Canadian Women.” In Vijay Agnew (ed.), Diaspora, Memory and Identity: A Search For Home. Toronto: University of Toronto Press,  pp. 48-80, 2006.   

  

Fox, Bonnie and Pamela Sugiman. “Flexible Work, Flexible Workers: The Restructuring of Clerical Work in a Large Telecommunications Company.” In Vivian Shalla (ed.), Working in a Global Era. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, pp. 74-92, 2006.

  

Sugiman, Pamela. “Privilege and Oppression: The Configuration of Race, Gender, and Class in Southern Ontario Auto Plants, 1939 to 1949” In James Opp and John C. Walsh (eds.), Home, Work, and Play: Situating Canadian Social History, 1840-1980, Toronto: Oxford University Press, pp. 185-201, 2005.

  

Fox, Bonnie and Pamela Sugiman. “Flexible Work, Flexible Workers: The Restructuring of Clerical Work in a Large Telecommunications Company.” Reprinted in Studies in Political Economy. Developments in Feminism. Caroline Andrew, Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong, Wallace Clement and Leah F. Vosko (eds.). Toronto: Women’s Press, pp. 187-212, 2003.

  

Sugiman, Pamela H. “The Sales Clerks: Worker Discontent and Obstacles to its Collective Expression” (abridged). In Graham S. Lowe and Harvey J. Krahn (eds.), Working Canadians. Toronto: Methuen Publications, pp. 74-86, 1984.

Invited Book Chapters

Sugiman, Pamela. “The Power of Silence: Personal Memories and Historical Consciousness in Experiences of Racism in Canada.” In Nicholas Ng-A-Fook and Kristina Llewellyn (eds.), Storying Historical Consciousness. New York: Routledge, pp. 70-87. 2019.
 
Sugiman, Pamela. “Afterword.” In Witness to Loss:  Race, Culpability, and Memory in the Dispossession of Japanese Canadians. Montreal: McGill Queen’s University Press, pp. 194-200. 2017.

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Stanger-Ross, Jordan and Pamela Sugiman. “Foreword.” In Witness to Loss:  Race, Culpability, and Memory in the Dispossession of Japanese Canadians. Montreal: McGill Queen’s University Press, pp. xiii - xvii. 2017.
 
Sugiman, Pamela. “Work and the Economy.” In Lorne Tepperman and Patrizia  Albanese (eds.), Principles of Sociology. Fourth edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press, pp.248-69, 2016

Sugiman, Pamela. “Work and the Economy.” In Lorne Tepperman, Patrizia Albanese, and James Curtis (eds.), Principles of Sociology. Third edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press, pp. 213-31, 2013.
            
Sugiman, Pamela. “Work and the Economy.” In Lorne Tepperman, Patrizia Albanese, and James Curtis (eds.), Sociology. A Canadian Perspective. Third edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Sugiman, Pamela. “Work and the Economy.” Lorne Tepperman and James Curtis (eds.), Principles of Sociology. Second edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press, pp. 272-301, 2009.

Sugiman, Pamela, “Work and the Economy.” In Lorne Tepperman, James Curtis and  Patrizia Albanese (eds.), Sociology. A Canadian Perspective. Second edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press, pp. 276-311, 2008.

Sugiman, Pamela. “Work and the Economy.” In Lorne Tepperman and James Curtis  (eds.), Principles of Sociology. First edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press, pp. 260-287, 2006.

          

Sugiman, Pamela, “Work and the Economy.” In Lorne Tepperman and James Curtis (eds.). Sociology. Toronto: Oxford University Press, pp. 214-48, 2004.

Magazine Articles

Sugiman, Pamela, No position, “Should the Canadian Government have Authorized the Forcible Evacuation Inland of Japanese Citizens during the Second World War? Face to Face, Legion Magazine, July-August:27-29, 2015.

Textbook Inserts

Stanger-Ross, Jordan and Pamela Sugiman. In J. D. Belshaw, Canadian History: Post-Confederation. B.C. OpenTextbookProject, 2015. .http://open.bccampus.ca/adoption-of-an-open-textbook/

          

Sugiman, Pamela, “The Internment of Japanese Canadians in World War II.” In G. Newman et al., Canada: A Nation Unfolding, Second edition. Whitby, Ontario: McGraw Hill Ryerson, 2000. 

Reports

Employment Equity. A Commitment to Equality. Toronto: Canadian Auto Workers Union National Office. Women’s And Communications Departments, 1992.

            

Affirmative at Work. The Case of the Canadian Auto Workers and General Motors of Canada. Toronto: Ontario Women’s Directorate, 1987.

Book Reviews

“Oral History at the Crossroads. Sharing Life Stories of Survival and Displacement,” (Steven High, ed.), Canadian Historical Review, 2015.

           

“The Triumph of Citizenship. The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941-67,” (Patricia E. Roy), Pacific Affairs, 82,(3): 496-98, 2009.

         

“Women, Gender and Transnational Lives. Italian Workers of the World,” (Franca Iacovetta and Donna Gabaccia, eds.), Canadian Woman Studies, 23(3,4): 214, 2004.

     

“Strikebreaking and Intimidation.  Mercenaries and Masculinity,” (Stephen Norwood).  Journal of Women’s History, 2003.

         

“Women on the Job. Transitions in a Global Economy,” (Ann Eyerman), Labour Le Travail, Fall 52: 259-61, 2003.

            

“Getting By in Hard Times: Gendered Labour at Home and on the Job,” (Meg Luxton and June Corman), Atlantis, 26, 2: 150-51, 2002.

            

“Challenging Professions: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Women’s Professional Work,” (E. Smyth, S. Acker and A. Prentice, eds.), Relations Industrielles, Fall 56, 4: 809-11, 2001.

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"From Plant to Politics. The Auto Workers Union in Postwar Canada,” (Charlotte Yates), Contemporary Sociology, 24, 6: 769-71, 1996.

       

“Part-Time Paradox: Connecting Gender, Work and Family,” (Ann Duffy and Norene Pupo), Canadian Journal of Sociology, 19, 2: 283-86, 1994.

  

“All Day, Every Day. Factory and Family in the Making of Women’s Lives,” (Sallie Westwood). Resources for Feminist Research, 15, 2: 41, 1986.

  

“Hard Earned Wages. Women Fighting for Better Work,” (Jennifer Penney). Atlantis, 10, 1, Fall: 118-21, 1984.

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