Michel S Beaulieu

Labour at the Lakehead

Ethnicity, Socialism, and Politics, 1900-35

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Produktbeschreibung

In the early twentieth century, politicians singled out the Lakehead as a breeding ground for radical labour politics. Michel S. Beaulieu returns northern Ontario to its rightful place as a birthplace of leftism in Canada by exposing the conditions that gave rise to an array of left-wing organizations. Cultural ties among workers helped bring left-wing ideas to Canada, but ethnicity weakened the left as each group developed a distinctive vocabulary of socialism and as Anglo-Celtic workers defended their privileges against Finns, Ukrainians, and Italians. At the Lakehead, ethnic difference often outweighed class solidarity--at the cost of a stronger labour movement for Canada.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Paperback
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780774820028
• ISBN-10: 0774820020
• Artikelnr.: 35053809

Autorenporträt

Michel S. Beaulieu is the director of the Centre for Northern Studies and an associate professor of history at Lakehead University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part 1: The Roots of Revolution?
1 Early Socialist Organizations at the Lakehead, 1900-14
2 Repression, Revitalization, and Revolutions, 1914-18
Part 2: From Winnipeg to the Workers' Unity League
3 "The Hog Only Harms Himself if He Topples His Trough": The One Big Union,
1919-22
4 "Into the Masses!": The Communist Party of Canada at the Lakehead,
1922-25
5 Bolshevization and the Reorganization of the Lakehead Left, 1925-27
6 Turning to the Left, 1928-30
Part 3: The Great Depression and the Third Period
7 "Class against Class": Socialist Activities, 1930-32
8 Wobbly Relations: The Communist Party of Canada, the Industrial Workers
of the World, and the Lakehead, 1932-35
Epilogue: 1935
Notes
Bibliography
Index