Jamie Swift is a Canadian journalist, author, and activist. His body of work has focused largely on issues of social justice, economy, environment, globalization, and politics.
Swift was born in Montreal, Quebec where, in 1968, he pursued a degree in African Studies at McGill University.[1] Upon moving to Toronto in the mid-seventies, Swift became involved in the social activist community and subsequently began his writing career. In 1977, he published his first book, The Big Nickel: Inco at home and abroad, which examined the effect of nickel production in third world countries.[2]
The Big Nickel: Inco at Home and Abroad (1977) ISBN978-0919946057 Cut and Run: The Assault on Canada's Forests (1983) ISBN978-0919946316 Conflicts of Interest: Canada and the Third World (1991) ISBN978-0921284413 Wheel of Fortune: Work and Life in the Age of Falling Expectations (1995) ISBN978-0921284895 Civil Society in Question (1999) ISBN978-1896357249 Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada, Fourth Edition (2003) ISBN9781896357775 Walking the Union Walk: Stories from the Communications, Energy, and Paperworkers Union (2003) ISBN978-1896357744 Hydro: The Decline and Fall of Ontario's Electric Empire (2004) ISBN978-1-896357-88-1 Persistent Poverty: Voices from the Margins (2010) ISBN978-1-897071-73-1 Warrior Nation: Rebranding Canada in an Age of Anxiety (2012) ISBN978-1-926662-77-0