Working PeopleMonograph on the history of trade unionism in Canada - covers political aspects of the labour movement, trade union leadership, problems of the 1930s economic recession and the two World Wars, the strike movement for improving working conditions, union merger, collective bargaining in the public service, and protection of the public interest, trade union federation and international trade union membership, inflation and incomes policy conflict, etc. Bibliography pp. 318 to 330, photographs and references. |
Contents
Work gang | 3 |
Getting Organized | 9 |
Ship labourers strike | 11 |
Copyright | |
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