Description: Cold War Workers explores how security labour transformed the lives of individuals, families, and communities in Canada in ways that were both predictable and surprising, with the militarization and colonization of Indigenous lives and lands being especially disruptive.
Brief description: Isabel Campbell is a senior historian at the Department of National Defence who has published widely on the Canadian Cold War.
Review Quotes: "Campbell takes Cold War scholarship in a new direction by filling voids and offering portrayals of groups either previously excluded or underrepresented in the existing literature." Steve Hewitt, University of Birmingham and co-author of Just Watch Us: RCMP Surveillance of the Women's Liberation Movement in Cold War Canada