Raising the Workers' Flag

The Workers' Unity League of Canada, 1930-1936

AvStephen Endicott

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Engelska, 2012

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During the Great Depression, the conflicting interests of capital and labour became clearer than ever before. Radical Canadian workers, encouraged by the Red International of Labour Unions, responded by building the Workers' Unity League – an organization that greatly advanced the cause of unions in Canada, and boasted 40,000 members at its height. In Raising the Workers' Flag, the first full-length study of this robust group, Stephen L. Endicott brings its passionate efforts to light in memorable detail.Raising the Workers' Flag is based on newly available or previously untapped sources, including documents from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's Security Service and the Communist Party's archives. Using these impressive finds, Endicott gives an intimate sense of the raging debates of the labour movement of the 1930s. A gripping account of the League's dreams and daring, Raising the Workers' Flag enlivens some of the most dramatic struggles of Canadian labour history.

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Utgivningsdatum:2012-09-07
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:480
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781442696839
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
Vikt:1 g

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Stephen L. Endicott is a professor emeritus in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies at York University.

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‘Well-written, accurate and vastly interesting, Endicott’s fascinating new book Raising the Workers’ Flag should attract the attention of active trade unionists and friends of labour… This well-pictured book recounts the history of our most militant national labour federation.’ - Garnet Dishaw (Our Times Dec-Jan 2013) ‘Few historians have tackled their subject with more enthusiasm, insider insight, and eye popping detail than Stephen l. Endicott has done in this first book-length treatment of the Worker’s Unity League(WUL).’- Ron Verzuh (BC Studies number 178, summer 2013) 'This is a great book, the product of twenty years of intensive labor in the archives by a historian who has an unmatched sensitivity to the complexities and nuances of communism's history. It achieves that rarest of combinations - immaculate scholarship and gifted story-telling.'- Ian MacKay (The American Historical Review (2013) 118 (5), 1509-1510) ‘This is a great book, the product of twenty years of intensive labour in the archives by a historian who had an unmatched sensitivity to the complexities and nuances of communism history. It achieves that rarest of combinations – immaculate scholarship and gifted story-telling.’ - Ian McKay (The American Historical Review; vol 118:05:2013)

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Table of Contents Preface & Acknowledgements Chapter 1Workers in Canada's Second Industrial RevolutionChapter 2The Red InternationalChapter 3Getting StartedChapter 4Going to 'Mecca'Chapter 51931: Trial by FireChapter 6Red BlairmoreChapter 71932: Confronting the Prime MinisterChapter 8The First Congress of the Workers' Unity League 1932 Chapter 9Women of the Workers' Unity LeagueChapter 10Hard Rock Miners: Anyox - Flin Flon - NorandaChapter 111933: Gaining MomentumChapter 12Sweatshops and Militancy in the Needle TradesChapter 13Woodsmen of the WestChapter 14Fishers in the Salish SeaChapter 15Not Hot Cakes or Foremen - On to Ottawa!Chapter 16Changing Times: the final convention of the WULChapter 17Afterword Appendixes Bibliography Photo Credits Index