Franca Iacovetta
Franca Iacovetta is a "feminist/socialist" historian of labour and migration currently working at the University of Toronto.
Her dissertation, published as Such Hardworking People: Italian Immigrants in Postwar Toronto, was supervised by York University's Ramsay Cook. She has since edited numerous collections of case studies, examining the lives of so-called "marginalized peoples" in Canada and the United States. Her most recent book Gatekeepers was awarded the Canadian Historical Association's John A. Macdonald Prize in 2008.
She has been critical of J.L. Granatstein, who questioned the dominance of social history in recent Canadian historical-writing in Who Killed Canadian History?, calling it a "clearly offensive", "ill-conceived little book".Selected bibliography
- Such Hardworking People: Italian Immigrants in Postwar Toronto
- Enemies Within: Italian and Other Wartime Internments in Canada and Beyond, co-ed with R. Perin and A. Principe
- Women, Gender and Transnational Lives: Italy’s Workers of the World, co-ed with D. Gabaccia
- Sisters or Strangers?: Immigrant, Ethnic and Racialized Women in Canadian History, co-ed with M. Epp and F. Swyripa ;
- Gatekeepers: Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold Ward Canada
