Labour Movement

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! Chapter 16: The Distinct Society of Quebec, 1900-30 From: Capitalism and Colonialism View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter examines Québec’s Distinct Society which emerged in response to foreign economic and cultural control. Resistance emerged in the figure of Henri Bourassa and his …	Bryan D. Palmer	14	2025	$1.40 Add
From NEW! Chapter 19: Outcasts and Dissidents in the Early 1930s From: Capitalism and Colonialism View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter discusses the examines the 1930s hobo jungles emerged due to the unemployment crisis and militant groups such as the Communist Worker’s Unity League (WUL) and the 1935 …	Bryan D. Palmer	16	2025	$1.60 Add
From NEW! Chapter 20: Communists, CCFers, Workers, and the Unemployed 1937, a Year of Rebellion From: Capitalism and Colonialism View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter discusses the role played by the Popular Front united Canadian Communists and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in the anti-fascist cause.	Bryan D. Palmer	11	2025	$1.10 Add
From NEW! Chapter 25: Capital at Home and Abroad, 1945-60 From: Capitalism and Colonialism View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter explains how the unemployment and social collapse of the Depression prompted grassroots solidarities and militant Communist organizing.	Bryan D. Palmer	19	2025	$1.90 Add
From NEW! Chapter 26: Managing Labour’s Momentum The Post-War Settlement, 1945-59 From: Capitalism and Colonialism View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter looks at the labour militancy that achieved union recognition in the 1945–48 strike wave and the historic Rand Formula.	Bryan D. Palmer	14	2025	$1.40 Add
From NEW! Chapter 27: Quebec in the 1940s and 1950s "The Great Darkness" From: Capitalism and Colonialism View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter explains how In the 1940s and 1950s Québec underwent rapid industrial growth and a more secularized labour movement led to landmark struggles like the 1949 Asbestos and 1952 …	Bryan D. Palmer	8	2025	$0.80 Add
From NEW! Chapter 31: Conclusion Canada at Mid-Century From: Capitalism and Colonialism View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter outlines how at mid-century the state had achieved labour calm and a certain amount of economic and political stability while it had removed thousands of First Nations and Inuit from …	Bryan D. Palmer	7	2025	$0.70 Add
From NEW! Chapter 8: Deindustrialization and the Maritimes in the 1920s From: Capitalism and Colonialism View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter traces the rise and fall of foreign-controlled companies such as British Empire Steel Corporation in Nova Scotia headed by Roy Wolvin.	Bryan D. Palmer	9	2025	$0.90 Add
From Chronology of the Main Events of the Winnipeg General Strike From: Winnipeg 1919 View James Lorimer and Company	A day-by-day summary of the events of the strike, from May 1-June 26, 1919	Norman Penner	3	2019	$0.30 Add
From Climate Change and Labour in the Energy Sector From: Climate@Work View Fernwood Publishing		John Calvert; Marjorie Griffin Cohen	29	2013	$2.90 Add
From Climate Change and Work and Employment in the Canadian Postal and Courier Sector From: Climate@Work View Fernwood Publishing		Geoff Bickerson; Meg Gingrich; Sarah Ryan	16	2013	$1.60 Add
From Climate, Work and Labour: The International Context The International Context From: Climate@Work View Fernwood Publishing		Carla Lipsig-Mummé	20	2013	$2.00 Add
Climate@Work Fernwood Publishing	Climate@Work addresses this deficit by systematically tackling the question of the impact of climate change on work and employment and by analyzing Canada’s conservative silence towards …	Carla Lipsig-Mummé	200	2013	View
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 NEW! DIY Defunding the Police How Winnipeg Sex Workers Stopped the Police from Taking Drivers’ Money From: Disarm, Defund, Dismantle View Between The Lines	In DIY Defunding the Police the Sex Workers of Winnipeg Action Coalition (SWWAC) a volunteer collective made up of sex workers, activists, and other allies, advocates for the decriminalization …	Sex Workers of Winnipeg Action Coalition	6	2022	$0.60 Add
From Excerpts from W.A. Pritchard’s Address to the Jury, March 23-24, 1920 From: Winnipeg 1919 View James Lorimer and Company	Excerpts from W.A Pritchard’s address to the Jury March 23-24, 1920. Pritchard was one of eight indifiduals prosecuted for seditious conspiracy in the aftermath of the Winnipeg General Strike	Norman Penner	42	2019	$4.20 Add