Factories and Workshops
Author: Great Britain. HM Factory Inspectorate
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Published: 1871
Total Pages: 1060
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Author: Great Britain. HM Factory Inspectorate
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Published: 1871
Total Pages: 1060
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Desmond Morton
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780773518018
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDesmond Morton highlights the great events of labour history -- the 1902 meeting that enabled international unions to dominate Canadian unionism for seventy years, the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, and an obscure 1944 order-in-council that became the charter of labour's rights and freedoms. He looks at the "new model" unions that used their members' dues and savings to fight powerful employers and describes the romantic idealism of the Knights of Labor in the 1880s, one of the most dramatic and visionary movements ever to seize the Canadian imagination. He recounts the desperate struggles of miners, loggers, and fishers to protect themselves from both employers and the dangers of their work. Working People explores the clash between idealists, who fought for such impossible dreams as an eight-hour day, socialism, holidays with pay, industrial democracy, and equality for women and men, and the realists who wrestled with the human realities of self-interest, prejudice, and fear. Morton tells us about Canadians who deserve to be better known, such as Phillips Thompson, Helena Gutteridge, Lynn Williams, Huguette Plamondon, Mabel Marlowe, Madeleine Parent, and a hundred others whose struggle to reconcile idealism and reality shaped Canada more than they would ever know. This new edition brings the book up to date with discussions of globalization and its challenge to nationally based workers' organizations.
Author: William Bevan
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-09-01
Total Pages: 69
ISBN-13: 3368944096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1838.
Author: Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
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Published: 1911
Total Pages: 852
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Finkelstein
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-06-21
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 0192560476
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a study of international print networks developed across the English-speaking world over a significant part of the long nineteenth century. The first study of its kind, it draws on unique sources from Australasia, North America, South Africa, the British Isles, and Ireland, to explore how printers interacted and shared trade and cultural identities across international boundaries during the period 1830-1914. Morality, mobility, mobilisation, and solidarity were central to how compositors and print trade workers defined themselves during this period. These themes are addressed in case studies on roving printers, striking printers, and creative printers. The case studies explore the cultural values and trade skills transmitted and embedded by such actors, the global networks that enabled print workers to travel across continents in search of work and experience, the trade actions reliant on mobilization and information-sharing across the printing world, and the creative ideas that printers shared through such means as memoirs, poetry, prose, and trade news contributions to print trade journals and other public outlets.