For a Better World : The Winnipeg General Strike and the Workers' Revolt / edited by James Naylor, Rhonda L. Hinther, and Jim Mochoruk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Naylor, James, 1954- editor.

Hinther, Rhonda L., 1974- editor.

Mochoruk, Jim, 1957- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

General Strike, Winnipeg, Man., 1919.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (405 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, [2022]

Summary:

Canada's most famous example of class conflict, the Winnipeg General Strike, redefined conversations around class, politics, region, ethnicity, and gender. Probing the meaning of the General Strike in new and innovative ways, For a Better World interrogates types of commemoration, current legacies of the Strike, and its ongoing influence.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 “Strike or Revolution” Redux: The Historiography of the Winnipeg General Strike

2 In the Water: Race, Empire, and the Winnipeg General Strike

3 From Patriotism to Insurgency: The Shifting Allegiances of Winnipeg 1919’s Striker-Soldiers

4 “Adapt to the Institutions and the Manners of this Country”: Winnipeg Jews and the General Strike

5 The Edmonton General Strike

6 The Winnipeg General Strike in the Crowsnest Pass

7 Montreal’s Civil War: The Municipal Workers’ Strike of 1918

8 “Justice and Not Charity Should Be Your Demand!”: Montreal’s Unemployed and the Workers’ Revolt

9 The Kansas City General Strike: Wartime Solidarity in the American Midwest

10 The Seattle General Strike: Five Days That Matter

11 The Storm before the Calm: Social and Political Upheaval in the Western Hemisphere

12 The “Rural Nothing Worth Monkey Police,” or the Winnipeg Origins of 100 Years of Canadian State Spying on Labour and the Left

13 Not by Repression Alone: Defeating the Workers’ Revolt by False Promises of Reform

14 Remembering 1919: Commemoration and the Winnipeg General Strike

15 Putting History to Work: Public History and Commemoration

16 The Winnipeg General Strike in the Twenty-First Century

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

9780887550171

0887550177

OCLC:

1344160731