Catherine Wismer
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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 SweetheartsThe Builders, the Mob and the Men |
Toronto was Boomtown in the 1960s. The city was growing quickly, gobbling up farmland for suburbs, pushing through expressways, knocking down neighbourhoods to make way for high-rise apartments. … | Catherine Wismer | 272 | 2014 | View |
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From ForewardFrom: Sweethearts |
Explains the process that led to the mafia finding a way into the housing industry. Also points to the fact that the book is an ethnic history where Jews and Italians sought to break the … | Catherine Wismer | 7 | 2014 | $0.70 Add |
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From The Harbord Class of ’33From: Sweethearts |
Looks at the Harbord Class of 1933, comprised of Jews, and the discrimmination they faced from Hitler supporters | Catherine Wismer | 9 | 2014 | $0.90 Add |
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From Bubsey, Squeaky, Little Woody and the WeaselFrom: Sweethearts |
1930-1949. Looks at the life of a Italian in Toronto during this time period who was involved with illegal activity. Introduced to the Zanini family | Catherine Wismer | 12 | 2014 | $1.20 Add |
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From Beyond a Bowl of Spaghetti:Lansky and Luciano From: Sweethearts |
1920-1949. Looks at Luciano and Lanskey who made their fortune during prohibition and how their operation entered toronto | Catherine Wismer | 13 | 2014 | $1.30 Add |
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From The New BuildersFrom: Sweethearts |
1950-1960. looks at the housing boom that occurred after the war due to the population swell. The decision to start building high rises | Catherine Wismer | 15 | 2014 | $1.50 Add |
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From DippersFrom: Sweethearts |
1950-1960. Italian Immigration to Canada in the early 1950s their need to find work and finding jubs in construction. Explores the creation of unions for housing workers | Catherine Wismer | 18 | 2014 | $1.80 Add |
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From The Mob and Its MoneyFrom: Sweethearts |
1950-1960. Looks at the mob’s expansion into legitimate business focusing on housing development. Corruption is explored | Catherine Wismer | 17 | 2014 | $1.70 Add |
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From Boomtown TorontoFrom: Sweethearts |
1960s looks at appartment developers and the boom in high rise appartments in Toronto, which renewed commericial and downtown development | Catherine Wismer | 9 | 2014 | $0.90 Add |
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From Zanini and IrvineFrom: Sweethearts |
1960s explores the disorganization of unions at this time and how Zanini and Irvine took advantage of this to gain power over the developers with their own union | Catherine Wismer | 19 | 2014 | $1.90 Add |
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From The SplitFrom: Sweethearts |
1960s Looks at the split of the unions into residential locals and the further fracturing of the unions. Zanini is convicted and sent to prison | Catherine Wismer | 14 | 2014 | $1.40 Add |
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From The Bahamas Adventure of C. Powell MorganFrom: Sweethearts |
1960s .The syndicate continues to refine methods of money laundering. Examines the Atlantic Acceptance Coorporation and its Bahamas hotel/casino developments | Catherine Wismer | 20 | 2014 | $2.00 Add |
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From The Bargain BuildersFrom: Sweethearts |
1960s the development of new building techniques that maximized profits by decreasing the need for skilled labour and finding cheaper materials. There are also inter-union disagreements for control | Catherine Wismer | 12 | 2014 | $1.20 Add |
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From Gus Simone, OrganizerFrom: Sweethearts |
1960s. Unions and the switch to drywall, work in commercial construction | Catherine Wismer | 12 | 2014 | $1.20 Add |
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From The Concrete Forming CampaignFrom: Sweethearts |
1960s formed concrete, residential unions and the international building trade unions | Catherine Wismer | 17 | 2014 | $1.70 Add |
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From The Independent UnionFrom: Sweethearts |
1960s Zanini and his independent Canadian Union in Concrete Forming, acqusations of it being a front for the mob | Catherine Wismer | 10 | 2014 | $1.00 Add |
