Labour & Labour Unions
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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  Assessing the Contemporary Working-Class Movement |
David Camfield | 12 | 2011 | $2.40 Add | |
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From  BibliographyFrom: Winnipeg 1919 |
Norman Penner | 2 | 2019 | $0.20 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! BrotherhoodFrom: Seven Days in Halifax |
In this chapter, Ashe describes the events of Day Three of Halifax’s 1970 "Encounter on Urban Environment," focusing on a session on Halifax Shipyards. He highlights the … | Robert Ashe | 9 | 2025 | $0.90 Add |
 Building a Better World Third EditionAn Introduction to the Labour Movement in Canada |
This third edition of Building a Better World offers a comprehensive introductory overview of Canada’s labour movement. The book includes an analysis of why workers form unions; assesses … | 232 | View | ||
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From  Building Relationships: Indigenous-Settler Solidarity and the NFUFrom: Frontline Farmers |
The last chapter considers the National Farmers Union’s work in building relationships of solidarity with Indigenous peoples of Canada. Interviews are with Maureen Bostock, Julie Enman, … | Lauren Kepkiewicz | 20 | 2019 | $2.00 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  A Union for EveryoneFrom: A New Kind of Union |
Describes the continued efforts of the CEP and the CAW to negotiate the New Union Project from 2012-2013. Analyzes debates over how the new union can represent Canadians from a wide variety of … | Fred Wilson | 38 | 2019 | $3.80 Add |
Canadian Labour in CrisisReinventing the Workers' Movement |
Does Canada have a working-class movement? Though many of us think of ourselves as middle class, most of us are, in fact, working class: we work for a wage. And though many of us are members of … | David Camfield | 108 | 2011 | View |
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From  Canadian Motordom in Depression and WarFrom: Car Nation |
1930-1945. Looks at the downturn for the auto industry during the Great Depression, the unionization of the industry, and the effect of WWII on the auto industry. Specifically uses the life of … | Dimitry Anastakis | 17 | 2008 | $1.70 Add |
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From  NEW! Canadian Motordom in Depression and WarFrom: Car Nation Canada |
In this chapter, Anastakis covers the 1930s and the Second World War period. Topics include the auto and the 1930s Depression, war production by auto manufacturers, union organizing in the war … | Dimitry Anastakis | 14 | 2026 | $1.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Capital, the State, and the 1960s Appetite for Reform: From Conciliation to Containment |
This chapter outlines Canadian political and economic history from 1945-1960s. Palmer describes how Liberal governments expanded welfare and the social safety net, and how labour unions expanded, … | Bryan D. Palmer | 12 | 2026 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! Capitalism and Colonialism Unchecked: After the 2025 Election |
In this chapter, Palmer outlines the key policies put in place by the Carney Liberals in 2025-26, including the turn away from labour, Indigenous communities and their rights, and environmental … | Bryan D. Palmer | 25 | 2026 | $2.50 Add |
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From  Capitalist Confederated Canada: The Emergence of Organized Labour and Class Conflict, 1870-90From: Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada’s Origins 1500-1890 |
This chapter examines the tumult of the 1870s in Canada, including the Pacific Scandal of 1873, Indigenous resistance in the North-West and the global financial pandemic from 1873 to 1897, which … | Bryan D. Palmer | 12 | 2024 | $1.20 Add |
