Rough and Plenty: A Memorial compares the displacement of Nova Scotia fishers during the early 1990s with that experienced by Scottish crofters in the nineteenth century. Using first-hand accounts, Rogers shows how both groups experienced marginalization and displacement as capitalism decimated their worlds. The book contains a strong social justice critique, giving voice to people who would otherwise be ignored by the historical record.

RAYMOND A. ROGERS was a professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University for twenty-five years. He is the author of three previous books: Nature and the Crisis of Modernity, The Oceans Are Emptying: Fish Wars and Sustainability, and Solving History: The Challenge of Environmental Activism. He earned the first PhD in Environmental Studies in Canada.

Introduction
Prologue
Hemmed-In Communities
Shelburne County, Nova Scotia, 1974, and Lewis, Scottish Hebrides, Early 19th Century
Remittances Home
Long Spruce Rapids, Nelson River, 1975, and Hudson Bay, 17th-19th Centuries
Outbreaks of Unrest
Shelburne County, Nova Scotia, 1993, and Scottish Hebrides, Mid-19th Century
Epilogue
Notes on Sources