Working People, Fifth Edition
An Illustrated History of the Canadian Labour Movement
5th Edition
Published on 13. January 1999
424 pages
978-0-7735-7554-7 (ISBN)
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A revised and updated edition of Morton's classic story of Canada's labour movement.
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Morton Desmond:
Desmond Morton is founding director of the Institute for the Study of Canada, McGill University, and one of Canada's leading historians.Desmond Morton (1937-2019) was professor emeritus at Hiram Mills, Department of History, the founding director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, and one of Canada's leading historians.
Desmond Morton is founding director of the Institute for the Study of Canada, McGill University, and one of Canada's leading historians.Desmond Morton (1937-2019) was professor emeritus at Hiram Mills, Department of History, the founding director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, and one of Canada's leading historians.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword to the Fifth Edition
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Working People
- 2 Getting Organized
- 3 International Ideas
- 4 Political Movement
- 5 Labour Reformers
- 6 Hinterland Labour
- 7 Trades and Labour
- 8 Gompers's Shadow
- 9 Business, Labour, and Governments
- 10 Labour Radicals
- 11 Labour and the First World War
- 12 Western Revolt
- 13 Unroaring Twenties
- 14 Surviving the Depression
- 15 Industrial Unionism
- 16 Fighting Hitler and Management
- 17 "People Coming into Their Own
- 18 No Falling Back
- 19 Struggle for Allegiance
- 20 The Merger Movement
- 21 Times of Frustration
- 22 Prosperity and Discontent
- 23 Public Interest, Public Service
- 24 Justice and Nationalism
- 25 Quebec and the Common Front
- 26 Scapegoat for Inflation
- 27 Recession and Hard Times
- 28 Levelling the Playing Field
- 29 Struggling to the Millennium
- 30 Millennial Achievements
- Graphs: Changes in the Labour Movement
- Further Reading
- Abbreviations
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
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- N
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- P
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