Franca Iacovetta

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 very critical of several prominent scholars, such as J.L. Granatstein and Michael Bliss, who have questioned social historians' dominance of Canadian historical-writing [Gendering Trans/National Historiographies: Feminists Rewriting Canadian History] .

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