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Triumph and Solidarity
BC Communists in the Early Years of the Great Depression
Av Jon Bartlett
Häftad, 2026
391 kr
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British Columbia was the site of some of the most significant events in the history of the labour movement and had some of the best-organized and most politically conscious communist workers. In this illuminating volume, Jon Bartlett follows the activities of BC Communists from the onset of the …
Cape Breton in the Long Twentieth Century
Formations and Legacies of Industrial Capitalism
Av Andrew Parnaby, Lachlan MacKinnon
Häftad, 2024
553 kr
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The emergence, dominance, and alarmingly rapid retreat of modernist industrial capitalism on Cape Breton Island during the "long twentieth century" offers a particularly captivating window on the lasting and varied effects of deindustrialization. Now, at the tail end of the industrial moment in …
Provincial Solidarities
A History of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour
Av David Frank
Häftad, 2013
341 kr
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A pioneering study, written in clear and forceful prose, this is theuntold story of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour and theprovincial labour solidarities that succeeded in overcoming divisionsand defeats to raise the status of working men and women within NewBrunswick society. Drawing on …
Solidarités Provinciales
Histoire De La Fédération Des Travailleurs Et Travailleuses Du Nouveau-Brunswick
Av David Frank
Häftad, 2013
337 kr
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La Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses duNouveau-Brunswick, fondée en 1913, est la deuxième plus anciennefédération provinciale du travail au Canada. Son histoire remonte auxpremières campagnes en faveur de l'indemnisation des accidents dutravail et de la reconnaissance syndicale, et elle …
Champagne and Meatballs
Adventures of a Canadian Communist
Häftad, 2011
377 kr
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Active for over forty years with the Communist Party of Canada, BertWhyte was a journalist, an underground party organizer and soldierduring the Second World War, and a press correspondent in Beijingand Moscow. But any notion of him as a Communist party hack would bemistaken. Whyte never let …
Working People in Alberta
A History
Av Alvin Finkel
Häftad, 2012
510 kr
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Working People in Alberta traces the history of labour inAlberta from the period of First Nations occupation to the present.Drawing on over two hundred interviews with labour leaders, activists,and ordinary working people, as well as on archival records, the volumegives voice to the people who have …
Union Power
Solidarity and Struggle in Niagara
Av Carmela Patrias, Larry Savage
Häftad, 2012
294 kr
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From factory workers in Welland to retail workers in St. Catharines,from hospitality workers in Niagara Falls to migrant farm workers inNiagara-On-The-Lake, Union Power showcases the role of workingpeople in the Niagara region. Charting the development of theregion's labour movement from the early …
Wages of Relief
Cities and the Unemployed in Prairie Canada, 1929-39
Häftad, 2013
337 kr
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In the early part of the Dirty Thirties, the Canadian prairie citywas a relatively safe haven. Having faced recession before the GreatWar and then again in the early 1920s, municipalities already hadrelief apparatuses in place to deal with poverty and unemployment.Until 1933, responsibility for the …
