| Description |
1 online resource (x, 212 p.) : ill., maps, ports. |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
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Working Canadians, books from the CCLH, 1925-1831 |
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Working Canadians (Edmonton, Alta.)
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ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Note |
Co-published by: CCLH. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Canallers Fight for Work and Fair Wages 8 -- The Early Labour Movement 10 -- Class and Ethnicity in the Early Twentieth Century 16 -- Labour Revolt in Niagara 25 -- Welfare Capitalism in Niagara 34 -- Unemployment and Organization During the Great Depression 40 -- The Crowland Relief Strike 42 -- The Cotton Mill Strike, 1936-37 45 -- The Monarch Strike 51 -- The CIO at McKinnon Industries 54 -- Fighting for Democracy on the Home Front, 1939-45 56 -- Niagara Labour's Cold War 67 -- Women and Workers of Colour in the 1950s and 1960s 74 -- Ideologies Clashing: The 1970 UAW Strike 81 -- Strike Wave: 1972-76 84 -- Canadian Pulp and Paper Workers Fight Back 89 -- Corporate Restructuring and Labour's Decline 91 -- The Eaton's Strike: Women Workers Walk the Line 95 -- "Don't Lower the Standard": The Newsroom on Strike 99 -- Occupation in Thorold 102 -- Labour Builds Brock: Unions and the University 105 -- Living in a Dying Town: Deindustrialization in Welland 117 -- "Kicking Ass for the Working Class": Hotel Workers in Niagara 124 -- The House Advantage: Organizing Niagara's Casinos 149 -- Migrant Farm Workers in Niagara 164 -- Organized Labour and the New Democratic Party in Niagara 172. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
| Note |
All rights reserved. |
| Subject |
Labor movement -- Ontario -- Niagara Peninsula -- History.
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Labor unions -- Ontario -- Niagara Peninsula -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Savage, Larry, 1977- author.
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Canadian Committee on Labour History, contributor.
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American Council of Learned Societies.
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| Added Title |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| ISBN |
1926836782 |
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9781926836782 paperback |
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9781926836799 pdf |
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9781926836805 epub |
| Standard No. |
heb40009 hdl |
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