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Confrontation at Winnipeg : labour, industrial relations, and the general strike / David Jay Bercuson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bercuson, David Jay.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrial relations--Canada--History.
- Industrial relations.
- General Strike, Winnipeg, Man., 1919.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 239 p.
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Why was Winnipeg the scene of the longest and most complete general strike in North American history? Bercuson answers this question by examining the development of union labour and the impact of depression and war in the two decades preceding the strike.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Preface
- Preface to the Revised Edition
- The Early Years
- The Depths of Depression
- The Trials of War
- Injunction City
- The Triumph of Radicalism
- Socialists and Soldiers
- The One Big Union
- Towards the Brink
- Battling for the Lord: May 15’29
- Impasse: May 30-June 16
- Defeat
- Confrontation in Retrospect
- A Longer View
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliography and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-85181-0
- 9786612851810
- 0-7735-6267-2
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