Labour
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From  NEW! The Wild PlaceFrom: Wanda’s War |
Chapter 7 reflects on Wanda’s time as a displaced person in the Wildflecken displaced persons camp, which housed more than fifteen thousand displaced Poles. The chapter covers the living … | Marsha Faubert | 11 | 2023 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! The Winds of ChangeFrom: Wanda’s War |
Chapter 9 explores Canada’s role in taking those displaced by the Second World War and the conclusion of the UNRRA project. The chapter discusses British and Canadian plans to exchange four … | Marsha Faubert | 12 | 2023 | $1.20 Add |
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From  The Winnipeg General Sympathetic Strike May-June 1919 Prepared by the Defence Committee, Winnipeg, 1920From: Winnipeg 1919 |
An account of the 1919 Winnipeg General strike published by a group of labour organizers in the aftermath of the strike. | Norman Penner | 230 | 2019 | $23.00 Add |
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From  The Workers’ Revolt |
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 |
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From  NEW! Think Tanks and Progressive Policy InstitutionsFrom: The Fire and the Ashes |
In this chapter, Jackson discusses the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, which worked closely with the labour movement to counter the development of right-wing thought and policies. It … | Andrew Jackson | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
 Through the MillGirls and Women in the Quebec Cotton Textile Industry, 1881-1951 |
Girls and women were essential to industrialization in Canada, particularly in the cotton textile industry, which was concentrated in Quebec. In 1891, for example, more than 2000 girls and women … | Gail Cuthbert Brandt | 324 | 2018 | View |
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From  NEW! Timeline of Key EventsFrom: Testimonio |
A thorough timeline of some key events in Guatemalan history starting in 1523 and stretching to 2020. | Catherine Nolin; Grahame Russell | 6 | 2021 | $0.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Treason of the StateFrom: Civilizing the State |
In Treason of the State, the author contextualized his work by examining the history of welfare and poverty policies in the United States. He also explores co-operation, democracy and … | John Restakis | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
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From  Understanding women’s painFrom: Bent out of Shape |
Karen Messing | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add | |
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From  Towards a New UnionThe Proposal Committee Debates From: A New Kind of Union |
Details and overviews the discussions held between the CEP and the CAW as the New Union Project moved forward. A brief history of the committee which discussed and proposed goals for the New … | Fred Wilson | 29 | 2019 | $2.90 Add |
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From NEW! Using Law and Democracy to Resist Predatory MiningFrom: Testimonio |
Essays in this section: Reclaiming Democracy, Realizing Self-Determination: Consultas as a Tool to Defend Human Rights and the Environment in Guatemala’s Genocidal Shadow – … | Cory Wanless; J.P. Laplante | 22 | 2021 | $2.20 Add |
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NEW! Wanda’s WarAn Untold Story of Nazi Europe, Forced Labour, and a Canadian Immigration Scandal |
In 1943, Wanda Gizmunt was ripped from her family home in Poland and deported to a forced labour camp in Nazi Germany. At the end of the war, she became one of millions of displaced Europeans … | 256 | View | ||
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From NEW! War and AmnestyFrom: Wanda’s War |
Chapter 3 details Wanda’s and Casey’s experiences following Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union launched on June 22, 1941. The chapter discusses the … | Marsha Faubert | 16 | 2023 | $1.60 Add |
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From  NEW! We Are a Union, What Do We Do Now? 1970-79From: Leading Progess |
This chapter discusses who belonged to and led PIPSC in the 1970s, how collective bargaining took place, and what policy positions the Institute adopted. It also explores the collective … | Jason Russell | 33 | 2020 | $3.30 Add |
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From  Who Were the Immigrants?SECTION TWO - The other side of the cotton From: A Distinct Alien Race |
The standard theory claims that most of the Canadien immigrants to New England were debt-strapped farmers, but this is not the only important story about Franco-American origins in Québec; … | David Vermette | 16 | 2018 | $1.60 Add |
Winnipeg 1919The Strikers' Own History of the Winnipeg General Strike |
On May 15, 1919 workers from across Winnipeg, ranging from metal workers to telephone operators, united to spark the largest worker revolt in Canadian history. Even the Winnipeg police voted to … | 340 | View |
