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“Who Gets Nick’s Head”
From: Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks
$1.10
This chapter traces the concrete forming industry in Toronto during the mid-to-late 1960s, centring on Nick
Di Lorenzo’s struggle to maintain dominance as rival contractors challenged his grip.
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.
