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Sciopero! Sciopero!
From: Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks
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This chapter recounts the 1960 construction workers’ strike in Toronto, led by Italian-Canadian labourers
seeking union recognition. Triggered by the Hogg’s Hollow disaster and unsafe working conditions, the strike saw organizers like Charles Irvine mobilize flying squads across Metro Toronto’s building sites.
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.
