Author: Bercuson, David Jay
Title: Confrontation at Winnipeg Labour, Industrial Relations, and the General Strike
Description: Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1974. Paperback. pp. x, 227. 8vo. Light shelfwear, head of spine bumped, scuffing to extremities, creasing to spine, ink owner's name to front cover and half title page; good. Why was Winnipeg the scene of the longest and the most complete general strike in North American history? This study seeks the answer to this question by examining the development of union labour and the impact of depression and war in the two decades preceding the general strike.

Keywords: Union labour; Class polarization; Winnipeg; General strike; Politics; Labour unrest; Labour-management; Canadian history; 1919;


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