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pb |
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9780773507944 |
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McGill-Queens |
| Release Date: |
2008-05-23 |
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ITEM OVERVIEW
Why was Winnipeg the scene of the longest and the most complete general strike in North American history? This study seeks the answer tot his question by examining the development of union labor and the impact of depression and war in the two decades preceding the general strike of 1919.
Attention is focused on earlier labor unrest, such as the street railway and Vulcan Works strikes of 1906, on industrial relations in the metal and building trades, and on the relations of labor and governments in what was then Canada's third largest city. It becomes clear that the general strike was not a sudden isolated outburst of labor discontent, but something that arose naturally out of a gradual worsening of labor-management relations before and during WWI. When the strike call came in May 1919, it was answered by almost every union in Winnipeg and by thousands of non-union workers, all of whom were increasingly frustrated by the rapidly rising cost of living and the frequent use by government and management of injunctions to crush strikes.
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