Union power :: solidarity and struggle in Niagara /

"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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Hauptverfasser: Patrias, Carmela, 1950- (VerfasserIn), Savage, Larry, 1977- (VerfasserIn)
Körperschaft: Canadian Committee on Labour History
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edmonton : AU Press, [2012]
Schriftenreihe:Working Canadians (Edmonton, Alta.) ; 3.
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Zusammenfassung:"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 from interviews, archival sources, and local newspapers, the story unfolds, in part, through the voices of the people themselves: the workers who fought for unions, the community members who supported them, and the employers who opposed them. Early industrial development and the appalling working conditions of the often vulnerable common labourer prompted a movement toward worker protection. Patrias and Savage argue that union power - power not built on profit, status, or prestige - relies on the twin concepts of struggle and solidarity: the solidarity of the shared interests of the working class and the struggle to achieve common goals. Union Power traces the evidence of these twin concepts through the history of the Niagara region's labour movement."--Publisher's description
Beschreibung:Co-published by: CCLH.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 212 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781926836799
1926836790
9781926836805
1926836804
ISSN:1925-1831 ;

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