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“Quo Vadis?”
From: Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks
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This chapter traces the formation of the Brandon Union Group, a coalition of Italian-Canadian construction workers organizing for fair labour conditions in Toronto during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Contributors
Gilberto Fernandes
Gilberto Fernandes is a visiting scholar and instructor in the Department of History at York University. He is the author of several academic publications on the history of the Portuguese diaspora in North America, and Ontario's construction industry and building trade unions. He is an award-winning public historian with several credits, including documentaries, exhibitions, community archives, websites, podcasts, walking tours, and theatre. Among these are the award-winning project City Builders: A History of Immigrant Construction Workers in Postwar Toronto, as well as the Laborem Ex Machina: A History of Construction Machinery and Operating Engineers in Canada.
