Occupational Health & Safety
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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! Brothers! Fratelli! Irmãos! |
This chapter examines Toronto’s construction industry in the late 1960s. Fernandes traces how Local 183 workers—drawn from Irish, Italian, Portuguese, and Polish … | Gilberto Fernandes | 12 | 2026 | $1.20 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 NEW! Dramatis Personae and Prologue |
This prologue introduces the men and organizations that shaped Toronto’s building trades during the 1960s and 1970s. Fernandes recounts the Hogg’s Hollow tunnel fire of March 17, … | Gilberto Fernandes | 12 | 2026 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! Epilogue |
This chapter traces the evolution of Toronto’s Local 183 construction union from the 1960s through 2025, examining how figures like Gerry Gallagher, Charlie Irvine, and John Stefanini … | Gilberto Fernandes | 18 | 2026 | $1.80 Add |
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From  Fast FashionFrom: The Great Greenwashing |
From The Great Greenwashing: How Brands, Governments, and Influencers Are Lying to You | John Pabon | 31 | 2024 | $3.10 Add |
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From  February 2021: Workplace SpreadFrom: Spin Doctors |
This chapter explores the second wave of the pandemic in the winter of 2021, and the role that workplaces played in the spread of the virus. | Nora Loreto | 26 | 2021 | $2.60 Add |
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From NEW! Gallagher’s Guerrillas |
This chapter offers a vivid portrait of John Gallagher’s construction safety campaign in Toronto, centred on Norm Pike, who led unannounced inspection blitzes that shut down over 350 unsafe … | Gilberto Fernandes | 12 | 2026 | $1.20 Add |
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From NEW! “How to Finish the Job” |
This chapter examines the transformation of labour relations inOntario’s construction industry during the early 1970s, centring on Local 183’s business manager Stefanini and his … | Gilberto Fernandes | 13 | 2026 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! “Life Against the Dollar” |
This chapter examines the 1969–1971 leadership of Toronto’s concrete forming union, Local 183, as well as protests against Ontario’s Bill 167. | Gilberto Fernandes | 12 | 2026 | $1.20 Add |
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From May 2020: COVID-19 Hits Food Processing IndustriesFrom: Spin Doctors |
This chapter covers how Covid-19 impacted food processing industries. Loreto examines how the workers in grocery stores, factories, and plants were "hailed as frontline heroes and treated as … | Nora Loreto | 21 | 2021 | $2.10 Add |
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NEW! Militants, Mobsters and MavericksThe Men Who Built Modern Toronto in the 1960s–70s |
This is a gripping look at the underbelly of Toronto’s explosive postwar growth in the 1960s and 1970s, at a time when labour leaders, politicians, contractors and crime figures battled for … | Gilberto Fernandes | 384 | 2026 | View |
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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 NEW! The “Lucky” Ones |
This chapter explores Toronto’s underground construction workers from the late 1940s through the 1970s. The chapter traces the deadly conditions faced by tunnellers building the Yonge and … | Gilberto Fernandes | 16 | 2026 | $1.60 Add |
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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 |
