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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Shift Change Scenes from a Post-industrial Revolution Between The Lines	Hamilton’s industrial age is over. In the steel capital of Canada, there are no more skies lit red by foundries at sunset, no more traffic jams at shift change. Instead, an urban …	Stephen Dale	252	2021	View
From Introduction From: The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History View James Lorimer and Company	Uses fictional names to exemplify the particular movements that the book discusses. A short concise history of the labour movement in Canada and what we need to understand about it in the social …	Craig Heron	13	2012	$1.30 Add
From Tectonic Shift From: Shift Change View Between The Lines	This chapter describes Hamilton as it once was: foundries belching iron oxide into the atmosphere, traffic jams driven by shift changes at factories, and workers toiling at all hours of the day …	Stephen Dale	25	2021	$2.50 Add
From Boom, Bust, and a Double-Sided Bohemian Renaissance From: Shift Change View Between The Lines	This chapter surveys some of the attempts to develop and revitalize Hamilton’s downtown core. Although the initial efforts were unsuccessful, a few optimists valiantly plotted …	Stephen Dale	48	2021	$4.80 Add
From The Craftworkers’ Challenge From: The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History View James Lorimer and Company	We meet the first movement of organized craftworkers beginning to take shape in the mid-nineteenth century in response to the new capitalist organization of work and labour markets. By the end of …	Craig Heron	27	2012	$2.70 Add
From The "Creative Class" Creates a Global Urban Clash From: Shift Change View Between The Lines	In this chapter, the author examines the relationship between Hamilton and Toronto, and how these two once-divided cities are now closely intertwined. The chapter also explores gentrification in …	Stephen Dale	53	2021	$5.30 Add
From The Workers’ Revolt From: The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History View James Lorimer and Company	We find a new wave of organization and agitation rolling through the corportate capitalist world of the early 20th century this time involving both revived craft unions and a new more radical …	Craig Heron	30	2012	$3.00 Add
From A Blue-Collar Legacy – for Better and for Worse From: Shift Change View Between The Lines	This chapter examines the dual nature of Hamilton, and poses key questions about the city. Can history be the basis for a roadmap forward? Are there unique aspects of Hamilton’s past that …	Stephen Dale	49	2021	$4.90 Add
From The Giant Tamed From: The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History View James Lorimer and Company	Explores the slow, uphill battle to shake the solid hegemony of Canadian employers in industrial life in the two decades between the wars and then the breakthrough that took place at the end of …	Craig Heron	27	2012	$2.70 Add
From Slogging towards Tomorrow From: Shift Change View Between The Lines	This chapter examines the activities of the Hamilton Roundtable and other similar institutions, which sought to bridge the gaps between government, the non-profit sector, business, churches, and …	Stephen Dale	48	2021	$4.80 Add
From The New Resistance From: The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History View James Lorimer and Company	We watch the industrial regime of legalized collective bargaining established in the 1940s come apart in the 1960s abd 1970s under pressure from angry rank-and-file unionists and militiant …	Craig Heron	22	2012	$2.20 Add
From Counterattack From: The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History View James Lorimer and Company	Traces the vigorous counterattack from the state and capital to weaken Canadian unions permanently	Craig Heron	26	2012	$2.60 Add
From The Economy Whose Interests Are Being Served? From: Canada after Harper View James Lorimer and Company	Andrew Jackson leads off by describing how our economy has been seriously harmed by the transfer of industries and jobs to other countries, by wage stagnation, and an over-reliance on the …	Andrew Jackson	19	2015	$1.90 Add
From Rebuilding the House of Labour From: The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History View James Lorimer and Company	Presents the internal pressures and new dilemmas facing the labour movement today	Craig Heron	29	2012	$2.90 Add
From A New Agenda for Labour From: The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History View James Lorimer and Company	Assesses the emerging agenda for labour in the hostile climate of the 1990s	Craig Heron	11	2012	$1.10 Add
From Unions Their Role in Democracy and Prosperity From: Canada after Harper View James Lorimer and Company	Lynne Fernandez then recounts how neoliberal government and corporate practices have weakened unions and violated their fundamental rights.	Lynne Fernandez	25	2015	$2.50 Add