Labour & Labour Unions

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! The Fox and the Burglar From: Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks View James Lorimer and Company	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
From The Future of Unions: Decline or Renewal? From: Building a Better World Third Edition View Fernwood Publishing		Errol Black; Jim Silver; Larry Savage; Stephanie Ross	26	2004	$2.60 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 NEW! The Great Free Trade Debate From: The Fire and the Ashes View Between The Lines	This chapter concerns the authors’ work on the free trade debates in 1988, which culminated in the edited collection The Free Trade Deal.	Andrew Jackson	4	2021	$0.40 Add
From The Heenan Disclosure From: Winnipeg 1919 View James Lorimer and Company	An overview of Liberal MP Peter Heenan’s disclosure of documents relating to the strike to parliament on June 2, 1926	Norman Penner	2	2019	$0.20 Add
From NEW! “The Lucky Things That Happen to Me” From: Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks View James Lorimer and Company	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
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 NEW! The Political Renter Class in So-Called Australia From: Dispatches from the Threshold View Fernwood Publishing	In this chapter, the authors examine the political renter class in Melbourne during the 2020 pandemic, linking Australia’s housing crisis to settler colonialism and Indigenous dispossession.	David Kelly; Prashanti Mayfield	9	2025	$0.90 Add
From The Protagonists From: Frontline Farmers View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter is meant to introduce the farmer members of the National Farmers Union who share their key struggles, gathered together by topic.	Annette Aurélie Desmarais	18	2019	$1.80 Add
From The Roots of Today’s Problems From: Canadian Labour in Crisis View Fernwood Publishing		David Camfield	21	2011	$4.20 Add
From The Strike From: The Truth About the '37 Oshawa GM Strike View bar	In this chapter, Leah examines the conditions that led to the 1937 General Motors strike in Oshawa, Ontario, and the organization of the strike itself.	Tony Leah	75	2024	$7.50 Add
From NEW! The Toronto Troubles From: Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks View James Lorimer and Company	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
From The Tragedy of the 1880s From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada’s Origins 1500-1890 View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter discusses the state of Canada in the 1880s. Though still a British colony, the country had emerged as a powerful industrial capitalist state yet was deeply fragmented along economic, …	Bryan D. Palmer	13	2024	$1.30 Add
The Truth About the ’37 Oshawa GM Strike They Made Cars and They Made Plans: Reds, the Rank and File, and International Solidarity Unionized GM bar	Autoworkers unionized the General Motors plant in Oshawa in 1937 after a bitterly fought strike that pitted them against a rabidly anti-union government, hostile press and GM corporation. It was …	Tony Leah	288	2024	View
From The Wall Reflections on a Workshop Methodology From: Labour in Canada Cracking Labour's Glass Ceiling View Fernwood Publishing	Chapter Five is a retrospective on The Wall methodology by Bev Burke and Suzanne Doerge, long-time social-movement eduators who created the methodology to empower women to take action on …	Bev Burke; Suzanne Doerge	19	2019	$1.90 Add
From The Winnipeg General Sympathetic Strike May-June 1919 Prepared by the Defence Committee, Winnipeg, 1920 From: Winnipeg 1919 View James Lorimer and Company	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