Mel Watkins
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Melville Henry Watkins was a Canadian political economist and activist and professor emeritus of economics and political science at the University of Toronto. He was a founder and co-leader with James Laxer of the Waffle, a left-wing political formation within the New Democratic Party that advocated an "independent socialist Canada" and Canadian nationalism. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2019.
Mel Watkins's Published Works
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Published Works
- Dene Nation - the Colony Within (1977) (74)
- The Staple Theory Revisited (1977) (66)
- On the Real Side : Laughing, Lying and Signifying - the Underground Tradition of African-American Humor that Transformed American Culture, from Slavery to Richard Pryor (1994) (41)
- Comment Staples Redux (2007) (30)
- On the Real Side: Laughing, Lying, and Signifying the Underground Tradition of African-American Humor That Transformed American Culture, from Slavery to Richard Pryor (1994) (26)
- Beyond Wilderness: The Group of Seven, Canadian Identity, and Contemporary Art (2007) (19)
- Canada under free trade (1993) (16)
- African American Humor: The Best Black Comedy from Slavery to Today (2002) (14)
- Stepin Fetchit: The Life and Times of Lincoln Perry (2005) (12)
- Gordon to watkins to you (1970) (10)
- Dancing with Strangers: A Memoir. (1999) (8)
- The U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement (1988) (8)
- The Innis Tradition in Political Economy (1982) (7)
- From Underdevelopment to Development (1977) (5)
- To be a Black woman: portraits in fact and fiction (1970) (4)
- Staples and Beyond: Selected Writings of Mel Watkins (2006) (4)
- Back on the Rez: Finding the Way Home by Brian Maracle (review) (2014) (4)
- The Clash of Ideas: Neoclassical Trade Theory Versus Canadian Political Economy (2003) (4)
- Gordon to Watkins to you, documentary: The battle for control of our economy, (1970) (3)
- The Waffle and the National Question (1990) (3)
- Industry restructuring and training reform in Australia: opportunity or threat for recreation? (1994) (3)
- Reflections on Being Born in a Group of Seven Canvas That Is Magically Transformed into a Sensuous Eleanor Bond Painting (1997) (3)
- Seen from the South (1990) (1)
- The Bob Love Story: If It's Gonna Be, It's Up to Me (1995) (1)
- PAPER SERIES 2003 PROTECTING SOUTHERN ONTARIO ’ S FARMLAND Challenges and Opportunities (2004) (1)
- The Book of Bob (2018) (1)
- An Alternative Trade and Development Model for Canada (1993) (1)
- Crashing the gates (1997) (1)
- LibGuides: Children's Series: Tiara Club (2013) (0)
- LibGuides: Children's Series: Sleepover Squad (2013) (0)
- LibGuides: Children's Series: Calendar Mysteries (2013) (0)
- Estimate of world income, 1953 (1956) (0)
- LibGuides: Children's Series: Magic Bunny (2013) (0)
- Control of Physiological Experiments Using a Hybrid Computer. (1980) (0)
- LibGuides: Children's Series: Dance Fairies (2013) (0)
- LibGuides: Children's Series: The Black Lagoon (2013) (0)
- From Harlem to East Berlin (1993) (0)
- LibGuides: Books for Tough Times: Divorce (2016) (0)
- LibGuides: Children's Series: My Weird School Daze (2013) (0)
- LibGuides: Children's Series: Pirates of the Caribbean (2013) (0)
- LibGuides: Children's Series: Horrid Henry (2013) (0)
- LibGuides: VCL Children's Summer Reading Club: CONNECT FOUR (2013) (0)
- Dene Nation: The Colony Within (1977) (0)
- Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) (2001) (0)
- LibGuides: Women's History Month: Fiction Books (2014) (0)
- LibGuides: Books for Tough Times: Childhood Illness (2016) (0)
- LibGuides: Nyack School District Reading Lists: First Grade (2013) (0)
- LibGuides: Children's Series: Thea Stilton (2013) (0)
- LibGuides: Superhero Children's Books at VCL: Super Heroes (2013) (0)
- The Case against United States-Canada Free Trade (1988) (0)
- LibGuides: Nyack Basics by Valley Cottage Library: About Nyack Basics (2018) (0)
- LibGuides: VCL Children's Summer Reading Club: Home (2013) (0)
- LibGuides: Children's Series: Creepella Von Cacklefur (2013) (0)
- LibGuides: Children's Series: Magic Tree House: Merlin Missions (2013) (0)
- 8. A New National Policy (1968) (0)
- LibGuides: Children's Series: Fashion Fairies (2013) (0)
- LibGuides: Children's Series: Cam Jansen (2013) (0)
- LibGuides: Nyack School District Reading Lists: Kindergarten (2013) (0)
- Economics: Canada : recent readings (1963) (0)
- LibGuides: Books for Tough Times: Disabilities (2016) (0)
- LibGuides: Children's Series: George Brown: Class Clown (2013) (0)
- LibGuides: Children's Series: Cupcake Diaries (2013) (0)
- LibGuides: VCL Children's Summer Reading Club: Booklists from Nyack School District (2013) (0)
- LibGuides: Children's Series: Katie Kazoo (2013) (0)
- LibGuides: Nyack Basics by Valley Cottage Library: Explore Through Movement and Play (2018) (0)
- LibGuides: Nyack School District Reading Lists: Reading Packets (2013) (0)
- LibGuides: Women's History Month: Non-fiction Books (2014) (0)
- LibGuides: Nyack Basics by Valley Cottage Library: Maximize Love, Manage Stress (2018) (0)
- The relentless prophet (1994) (0)
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