Union power : solidarity and struggle in Niagara

Union power : solidarity and struggle in Niagara / Carmela Patrias and Larry Savage.

"Charting the development of the region's labour movement from the early nineteenth century to the present, Patrias and Savage illustrate how workers from this highly diversified economy struggled to improve their lives both inside and outside the workplace. Including extensive quotations...

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Main Authors: Patrias, Carmela, 1950- (Author), Savage, Larry, 1977- (Author)
Corporate Author: Canadian Committee on Labour History
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edmonton : AU Press, [2012]
Series:Working Canadians (Edmonton, Alta.) ; 3.
Subjects:
Labor movement > Ontario > Niagara Peninsula > History.
Labor unions > Ontario > Niagara Peninsula > History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Labor movement
Labor unions
Ontario > Niagara Peninsula
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Canallers Fight for Work and Fair Wages
  • The Early Labour Movement
  • Class and Ethnicity in the Early Twentieth Century
  • Labour Revolt in Niagara
  • Welfare Capitalism in Niagara
  • Unemployment and Organization During the Great Depression
  • The Crowland Relief Strike
  • The Cotton Mill Strike, 1936-37
  • The Monarch Strike
  • The CIO at McKinnon Industries
  • Fighting for Democracy on the Home Front, 1939-45
  • Niagara Labour's Cold War
  • Women and Workers of Colour in the 1950s and 1960s
  • Ideologies Clashing: The 1970 UAW Strike
  • Strike Wave: 1972-76
  • Canadian Pulp and Paper Workers Fight Back
  • Corporate Restructuring and Labour's Decline
  • The Eaton's Strike: Women Workers Walk the Line
  • "Don't Lower the Standard": The Newsroom on Strike
  • Occupation in Thorold
  • Labour Builds Brock: Unions and the University
  • Living in a Dying Town: Deindustrialization in Welland
  • "Kicking Ass for the Working Class": Hotel Workers in Niagara
  • The House Advantage: Organizing Niagara's Casinos
  • Migrant Farm Workers in Niagara
  • Organized Labour and the New Democratic Party in Niagara.

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