Hard Lessons: The Mine Mill Union in the Canadian Labour Movement

Hard Lessons: The Mine Mill Union in the Canadian Labour Movement
ISBN-10
1459725980
ISBN-13
9781459725980
Series
Hard Lessons
Category
Political Science
Pages
325
Language
English
Published
1995-05-01
Publisher
Dundurn
Authors
Dieter K. Buse, Peter Suschnigg, Mercedes Steedman

Description

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.

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