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“What is a Jungle?”
From: Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks
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This chapter traces the mid- to late- 1950s struggle of Italian-Canadian workers to organize in Toronto’s residential building trades. Through the stories of Bruno Zanini, Charles Irvine, and Frank Colantonio, the text follows the arc from individual tragedy—marked by Gerarda Trillo’s suicide in 1955—to collective action.
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.
