Labour at the Lakehead : ethnicity, socialism, and politics, 1900-35

Labour at the Lakehead : ethnicity, socialism, and politics, 1900-35 / Michel S. Beaulieu.

In the early twentieth century, the Canadian Lakehead was known as a breeding ground for revolution, a place where harsh conditions in dockyards, lumber mills, and railway yards drove immigrants into radical labour politics. This intensely engaging history reasserts Northwestern Ontario's right...

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Main Author: Beaulieu, Michel S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Vancouver : UBC Press, 2011.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Labor movement > Ontario > Thunder Bay > History > 20th century.
Labor unions > Ontario > Thunder Bay > History > 20th century.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Ethnic relations
Labor movement
Labor unions
Politics and government
Social conditions
Thunder Bay (Ont.) > Ethnic relations.
Thunder Bay (Ont.) > Politics and government > 20th century.
Thunder Bay (Ont.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Ontario > Thunder Bay
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. The Roots of Revolution?: 1. Early socialist organizations at the Lakehead, 1900-14; 2. Repression, revitalization, and revolutions, 1914-18
  • Part 2. From Winnipeg to the Workers' Unity League: 3. "The Hog Only Harms Himself if He Topples His Trough": The one big union, 1919-22; 4. "Into the Masses!": The Communist Party of Canada at the Lakehead, 1922-25; 5. Bolshevization and the reorganization of the Lakehead Left, 1925-27; 6. Turning to the left, 1928-30
  • Part 3. The Great Depression and the Third Period: 7. "Class against Class": socialist activities, 1930-32; 8. Wobbly relations: The Communist Party of Canada, the Industrial Workers of the World, and the Lakehead, 1932-35.

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