Gilberto Fernandes
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From  NEW! “A Good Man” |
This chapter traces the life and legacy of Gerry Gallagher, an Irish-born construction union leader who died in 1978, and the turbulent world of Toronto building trades that followed. | Gilberto Fernandes | 13 | 2026 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! A Liminal City |
This chapter offers a layered portrait of Toronto in the late 1960s, tracing its rise as Canada’s financial capital following Montreal’s gradual decline. | Gilberto Fernandes | 14 | 2026 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! “A Sinister Array of Characters” |
This chapter traces the tangled web of organised crime, union conflicts, and political corruption within Toronto’s construction industry during the late 1960s and early 1970s. | Gilberto Fernandes | 12 | 2026 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! “Another Kind of Violence” |
This chapter discusses how the 1961 Toronto construction strike, led by Charles Irvine and Bruno Zanini, forced a fifty-day halt to residential construction after contractors abandoned union … | Gilberto Fernandes | 22 | 2026 | $2.20 Add |
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From NEW! Boomtown |
This chapter examines Toronto’s explosive postwar transformation from the late 1940s through the mid-1960s, when a million new residents reshaped the city. The narrative traces the housing … | Gilberto Fernandes | 12 | 2026 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! Bread and Butter |
This chapter traces Gerry Gallagher’s union organizing across Ontario in the late 1940s and 1950s, particularly his recruitment of Hydro labourers for LIUNA Local 183, and discusses the … | Gilberto Fernandes | 11 | 2026 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! Breaking Bones |
This chapter discuses the health toll of underground tunnelling, Italian immigrant labour organizing through Local 183, and organized crime’s encroachment on Toronto. | Gilberto Fernandes | 15 | 2026 | $1.50 Add |
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From NEW! Brothers! Fratelli! Irmãos! |
This chapter examines Toronto’s construction industry in the late 1960s. Fernandes traces how Local 183 workers—drawn from Irish, Italian, Portuguese, and Polish … | Gilberto Fernandes | 12 | 2026 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! “Can You Hear Me?” |
This chapter examines construction worker safety in Toronto during the mid-1960s. The narrative follows Local 183 leader Gerry Gallagher as he battled dangerous subway tunnelling conditions, … | Gilberto Fernandes | 18 | 2026 | $1.80 Add |
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From NEW! Concrete City |
This chapter explores Toronto’s concrete transformation during the 1960s and 1970s, a period when immigrant workers and architectural innovation reshaped the city’s skyline. | Gilberto Fernandes | 13 | 2026 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! Dramatis Personae and Prologue |
This prologue introduces the men and organizations that shaped Toronto’s building trades during the 1960s and 1970s. Fernandes recounts the Hogg’s Hollow tunnel fire of March 17, … | Gilberto Fernandes | 12 | 2026 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! Endnotes and Visual Credits |
This "chapter" includes endnotes and visual credits | Gilberto Fernandes | 22 | 2026 | $2.20 Add |
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From NEW! Epilogue |
This chapter traces the evolution of Toronto’s Local 183 construction union from the 1960s through 2025, examining how figures like Gerry Gallagher, Charlie Irvine, and John Stefanini … | Gilberto Fernandes | 18 | 2026 | $1.80 Add |
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From NEW! Gallagher’s Guerrillas |
This chapter offers a vivid portrait of John Gallagher’s construction safety campaign in Toronto, centred on Norm Pike, who led unannounced inspection blitzes that shut down over 350 unsafe … | Gilberto Fernandes | 12 | 2026 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! “Go Canadian, Boys!” |
This chapter recounts the 1969 jurisdictional battle in Toronto between Local 183 carpenters and Local 562 lathers over nearly 2,500 formworkers in the residential concrete sector. | Gilberto Fernandes | 12 | 2026 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! “How to Finish the Job” |
This chapter examines the transformation of labour relations inOntario’s construction industry during the early 1970s, centring on Local 183’s business manager Stefanini and his … | Gilberto Fernandes | 13 | 2026 | $1.30 Add |
