Chapter 2
The Workers' Revolt
From: The Canadian Labour Movement
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Chapter two deals with the emergence of new workers’ movements on the changing terrain of the Second Industrial Revolution in Canada. It also explores the emerging crisis for craftworkers within new managerial and technological regimes, the rise and fall of all-inclusive industrial unionism, the creation of new independent working-class parties, the impact of World War One and the doldrums for the labour movement in the economically depressed 1920s.
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Contributors
Craig Heron
CRAIG HERON is a professor emeritus of History at York University in Toronto and the author of several works in Canadian social history, including Working in Steel: The Early Years in Canada, 1883–1935; The Workers’ Revolt in Canada, The Workers’ Festival: A History of Labour Day in Canada, Lunch-Bucket Lives: Remaking the Workers’ City and Working Lives: Essays in Canadian Working-Class History.
Charles Smith
CHARLES SMITH is an associate professor and department head of Political Studies at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan. He is co-author of Unions in Court: Organized Labour and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and co-editor of the journal Labour/Le Travail.
