| Description |
1 online resource (198 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The structure of Canadian working-class history / Gregory S. Kealey -- Workers in Atlantic Canada / David Frank -- The Newfoundland Loggers' Strike of 1959 / H. Landon Ladd |
| Summary |
In 1983 and 1984 the Canadian Studies Program of the Secretary of State funded four lecture series at Canadian universities on the history of the Canadian working class. This volume presents many of the lectures in a published version. Ranging from east to west and covering two centuries of Canadian labour history, the volume includes a selection of essays by some of Canada's leading social historians including Michael Cross, David Frank, Ross McCormack, Bryan Palmer and Joy Parr. Outstanding participants in the making of Canadian labour history Eugene Forsey and H. Landon Ladd have also contributed. Directed at a popular audience these fourteen lectures provide a major survey of Canada's labour past |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Labor unions -- Canada -- History.
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Working class -- Canada -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cherwinski, W. J. C. (Walter Joseph Carl), 1942-
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Kealey, Gregory S., 1948-
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Committee on Canadian Labour History.
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| LC no. |
86183018 |
| ISBN |
(paperback) |
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(paperback) |
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