Labour Movement
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From  The Forest IndustryFrom: Climate@Work |
John Holmes | 17 | 2013 | $1.70 Add | |
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From  NEW! The Fox and the Burglar |
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 |
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From  The Giant Tamed |
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 |
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From  The Heenan DisclosureFrom: Winnipeg 1919 |
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 |
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From The Impact of Climate Change on Employment and Skills Requirements in the Construction IndustryFrom: Climate@Work |
John O'Grady | 19 | 2013 | $1.90 Add | |
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From  The McLaughlins vs. The Workers |
In this chapter, Leah traces class conflict in Oshawa, Ontario, from the 1860s through the 1940s, centring on the McLaughlin family and the workers who built the town’s industrial identity. | Tony Leah | 13 | 2024 | $1.30 Add |
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From The New Resistance |
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 |
 The Point is To Change the WorldSelected Writings of Andaiye |
Radical activist, thinker, and comrade of Walter Rodney, Andaiye was one of the Caribbean’s most important political voices. For the first time, her writings are published in one collection. … | Alissa Trotz; Andaiye | 320 | 2020 | View |
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From NEW! “The Sewers of the ‘Sweet Life’” |
This chapter examines the intersection of Italian-Canadian identity, union activism, and workplace safety in Toronto during 1961 and 1962. Fernandes explains how strikes, threats of violence … | Gilberto Fernandes | 17 | 2026 | $1.70 Add |
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From The Strike |
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 |
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From The Transportation Equipment IndustryFrom: Climate@Work |
Austin Hracs; John Holmes | 19 | 2013 | $1.90 Add | |
The Truth About the ’37 Oshawa GM StrikeThey Made Cars and They Made Plans: Reds, the Rank and File, and International Solidarity Unionized GM |
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 |
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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 Tourism, Climate Change and the Missing WorkerUneven Impacts, Instiutions and Response From: Climate@Work |
Steven Tufts | 20 | 2013 | $2.00 Add | |
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From  IntroductionFrom: A New Kind of Union |
An introduction to the development Canadian labour has undergone in the 21st century. Highlights some of the key players and organizations in the creation of Unifor as well as gives background … | Fred Wilson; Peter Kennedy | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
