Research Catalog

Title

Union power : solidarity and struggle in Niagara / Carmela Patrias and Larry Savage.

Author

Patrias, Carmela, 1950-

Publication

Edmonton : AU Press, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Savage, Larry, 1977-
• Canadian Committee on Labour History

Description

x, 212 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Working Canadians

Uniform Title

Working Canadians (Edmonton, Alta.)

Subject

• Labor movement > Ontario > Niagara Peninsula > History
• Labor unions > Ontario > Niagara Peninsula > History

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Co-published by: CCLH.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also issued in electronic format.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Canallers Fight for Work and Fair Wages 8 -- The Early Labour Movement 10 -- Class and Ethnicity in the Early Twentieth Century 16 -- Labour Revolt in Niagara 25 -- Welfare Capitalism in Niagara 34 -- Unemployment and Organization During the Great Depression 40 -- The Crowland Relief Strike 42 -- The Cotton Mill Strike, 1936-37 45 -- The Monarch Strike 51 -- The CIO at McKinnon Industries 54 -- Fighting for Democracy on the Home Front, 1939-45 56 -- Niagara Labour's Cold War 67 -- Women and Workers of Colour in the 1950s and 1960s 74 -- Ideologies Clashing: The 1970 UAW Strike 81 -- Strike Wave: 1972-76 84 -- Canadian Pulp and Paper Workers Fight Back 89 -- Corporate Restructuring and Labour's Decline 91 -- The Eaton's Strike: Women Workers Walk the Line 95 -- "Don't Lower the Standard": The Newsroom on Strike 99 -- Occupation in Thorold 102 -- Labour Builds Brock: Unions and the University 105 -- Living in a Dying Town: Deindustrialization in Welland 117 -- "Kicking Ass for the Working Class": Hotel Workers in Niagara 124 -- The House Advantage: Organizing Niagara's Casinos 149 -- Migrant Farm Workers in Niagara 164 -- Organized Labour and the New Democratic Party in Niagara 172.

ISBN

• 9781926836782
• 1926836782

OCLC

• 781535882
• SCSB-11907530

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library