Hard Lessons: The Mine Mill Union in the Canadian Labour Movement [Paperback] Buse, Dieter K.; Suschnigg, Peter and Steedman, Mercedes

ISBN 10: 1550022237 / ISBN 13: 9781550022230

Published by Dundurn Press, 1995

About this Item

Minor shelfwear to extremities. Minimal discolouration to pages, but content is clear and legible throughout.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hard Lessons: The Mine Mill Union in the Canadian Labour Movement [Paperback] Buse, Dieter K.; Suschnigg, Peter and Steedman, Mercedes
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1550022237
• ISBN 13: 9781550022230
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This book emerges from the papers, panels, and discussion of the conference "Where the Past Meets the Future - the Place of Alternative Unions in the Canadian Labour Movement," held to commemorate the first one hundred years of the history of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union. The union, which began in 1893 as the Western Federation of Miners and grew to a membership of over one hundred thousand in fifty locals throughout Canada during the 1950s, had shrunk to a single local of sixteen hundred members in Sudbury, Ontario, by the 1990s. This book brings together the voices of contemporary labour leaders, activists, old timers, and academics.

About the Authors

Dr. Dieter K. Buse is a Professor Emeritus of the History Department at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario.

Peter Suschnigg teaches at Laurentian University of Sudbury in Ontario.

Mercedes Steedman teaches in the Department of Sociology at Laurentian University.