Thomas Walton Langford

Professor Emeritus of Sociology

B.A. Sociology, University of Guelph, 1984

B.Sc. Honours Botany, University of Guelph, 1975

Doctor of Philosophy Sociology, McMaster University, 1989

M.A. Sociology, University of Guelph, 1984

Scholarly Book Award (Publication Grant), Awards to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP) of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences of Canada. 2023

The Lights on the Tipple Are Going Out: Fighting Economic Ruin in a Canadian Coalfield Community. Tom Langford. UBC Press. 400 pages, 6 x 9, 23 b&w photos, 14 tables, 2 maps. (2024)
Alberta’s Day Care Controversy: From 1908 to 2009—and Beyond. Tom Langford. Athabasca University Press. xviii + 406. (2011)
A World Apart: The Crowsnest Communities of Alberta and British Columbia. Wayne Norton and Tom Langford (editors). Plateau Press. ix + 202. (2002)
The Elk Valley. Wyatt Petryshen, Paul S. Ciccantell and Tom Langford. Chapter 5 in Sustainable Development and Rural Public Heath: From Fossil Fuels to Greener Futures (edited by Michael Hendryx, Springer). pp. 51-64. (2024)

“‘Tin-Pot Childcare’ Lives On? Alberta Falls Short of the National Vision. Tom Langford. Alberta Views 25(3), April. 22-28. (2022)
The Workers’ Revolt in Western Coal Country. Tom Langford. Active History (Active History theme week on the 1919 Strike Wave, 17-21 June 2019). (2019)
It Takes A Village. The Case for Universal Daycare. Tom Langford. Alberta Views 19(8), October. 28-33. (2016)
Rebel Local 7292 in the Elk Valley. Tom Langford. British Columbia History, 56(4). 31-32. (2023)