Gilberto Fernandes
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From  NEW! “I Built an Empire” |
This chapter examines how John Stefanini reshaped Local 183, a construction labourers’ union, during the mid-1970s. | Gilberto Fernandes | 14 | 2026 | $1.40 Add |
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From NEW! “I Didn’t Want to Die on the Saddle” |
This chapter traces the career of John Stefanini, the Italian-Canadian leader who built LIUNA Local 183 into North America’s largest construction union during the 1980s and early 1990s. | Gilberto Fernandes | 18 | 2026 | $1.80 Add |
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From NEW! “Life Against the Dollar” |
This chapter examines the 1969–1971 leadership of Toronto’s concrete forming union, Local 183, as well as protests against Ontario’s Bill 167. | Gilberto Fernandes | 12 | 2026 | $1.20 Add |
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NEW! Militants, Mobsters and MavericksThe Men Who Built Modern Toronto in the 1960s–70s |
This is a gripping look at the underbelly of Toronto’s explosive postwar growth in the 1960s and 1970s, at a time when labour leaders, politicians, contractors and crime figures battled for … | Gilberto Fernandes | 384 | 2026 | View |
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From NEW! “Quo Vadis?” |
This chapter traces the formation of the Brandon Union Group, a coalition of Italian-Canadian construction workers organizing for fair labour conditions in Toronto during the late 1950s and early … | Gilberto Fernandes | 13 | 2026 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! Sciopero! Sciopero! |
This chapter recounts the 1960 construction workers’ strike in Toronto, led by Italian-Canadian labourers seeking union recognition. Triggered by the Hogg’s Hollow disaster and unsafe … | Gilberto Fernandes | 13 | 2026 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! The Fox and the Burglar |
This chapter examines the 1962 collapse of Toronto’s Brandon Union Group and the tangled web of organized crime, labour politics, and public safety that unfolded across Canada in the early 1960s. | Gilberto Fernandes | 12 | 2026 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! The “Lucky” Ones |
This chapter explores Toronto’s underground construction workers from the late 1940s through the 1970s. The chapter traces the deadly conditions faced by tunnellers building the Yonge and … | Gilberto Fernandes | 16 | 2026 | $1.60 Add |
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From NEW! “The Lucky Things That Happen to Me” |
This chapter traces the life of Gerry Gallagher, an Irish immigrant who arrived in Canada in 1951 to organize construction workers. It examines his wartime experiences, his founding of LIUNA … | Gilberto Fernandes | 15 | 2026 | $1.50 Add |
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From NEW! “The Sewers of the ‘Sweet Life’” |
This chapter examines the intersection of Italian-Canadian identity, union activism, and workplace safety in Toronto during 1961 and 1962. Fernandes explains how strikes, threats of violence … | Gilberto Fernandes | 17 | 2026 | $1.70 Add |
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From NEW! The Toronto Troubles |
This chapter traces the criminal violence and union racketeering that consumed Toronto’s construction industry in 1972 and 1973, including the bombings of Acme Lathing and the attempted … | Gilberto Fernandes | 13 | 2026 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! “What is a Jungle?” |
This chapter traces the mid- to late- 1950s struggle of Italian-Canadian workers to organize in Toronto’s residential building trades. Through the stories of Bruno Zanini, Charles Irvine, … | Gilberto Fernandes | 8 | 2026 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! “When the Thaw Comes” |
The Hogg’s Hollow tunnel disaster of March 17, 1960, in Toronto became a rallying point for exposing the exploitation of Italian immigrant construction workers. Frank Drea’s bold … | Gilberto Fernandes | 9 | 2026 | $0.90 Add |
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From NEW! “Who Gets Nick’s Head” |
This chapter traces the concrete forming industry in Toronto during the mid-to-late 1960s, centring on Nick Di Lorenzo’s struggle to maintain dominance as rival contractors challenged his grip. | Gilberto Fernandes | 11 | 2026 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! “Who is Calling the Shots?” |
This chapter traces the autumn of 1971, when Local 183 business manager Stefanini secured agreements with five of Toronto’s largest high-rise apartment builders. | Gilberto Fernandes | 12 | 2026 | $1.20 Add |
