Working people /
"From the dock workers of Saint John in 1812 to teenage "crows" at McDonald's today, Canada's trade union movement has a long, exciting history, Working People tells the story of the men and women in the labour movement in Canada and their struggle for security, dignity, and...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Montréal [Que.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2007
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| Edition: | 5th ed. rev. and updated. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Working people
- Getting organized
- International ideas
- Political movement
- Labour reformers
- Hinterland labour
- Trades and labour
- Gompers's shadow
- Business, labour, and governments
- Labour radicals
- Labour and the first World War
- Western revolt
- Unroaring twenties
- Surviving the depression
- Industrial unionism
- Fighting Hitler and management
- "People coming into their own"
- No falling back
- Struggle for allegiance
- Merger movement
- Times of frustration
- Prosperity and discontent
- Public Interest, Public Service
- Justice and nationalism
- Quebec and the common front
- Scapegoat for inflation
- Recession and hard times
- Levelling the playing field
- Struggling to the millennium
- Millennial achievements
- Graphs: Changes in the labour movement.
