Published by James Lorimer & Co., Toronto, 1979
ISBN 10: 0888622694 ISBN 13: 9780888622693
Seller: MAPLE RIDGE BOOKS, UXBRIDGE, ON, Canada
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. pp: 261. Bound in blue pictorial card covers. The author has collected accounts of eleven pivotal labour events in Canadian history. These include; the infamous 1919 Winnipeg general strike, the struggles to organize (1936-1942) of the Sydney steelworkers, the 1946 strike of the textile workers in Valleyfield, Quebec. A very good copy with moderate edge wear to the covers. The text is clean and free of notes or marks.
Published by Lorimer, 1979
ISBN 10: 0888622694 ISBN 13: 9780888622693
Seller: Webster's Bookstore Cafe, Inc., State College, PA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Pages clean, binding tight, minor shelf wear, cover slightly rubbed, spine creased in 1 place.
Published by James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers, Toronto, ON, Canada, 1979
ISBN 10: 0888622694 ISBN 13: 9780888622693
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Good. First Printing. 261 pages including index. Told for the first time, here are the stories of twelve of Canada's outstanding labour leaders and organizers. Their accounts tell the behind-the-scenes story of some of the key events in twentieth-century Canadian history from the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, the 1935 On-to-Ottawa trek of the unemployed which played a major role in the defeat of Tory prime minister R.B. Bennett and the 1945 Ford strike in Windsor which consolidated the rights of big industrial unions through to the 1972 Common Front of Quebec's public sector workers. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding solid.