Profiles in Dissent: The Shaping of Radical Thought in the Canadian West

by Harry GUTKIN and Mildred Gutkin

The Winnipeg General Strike was a six-week event in May and June of 1919 that united tens of thousands of workers in solidarity for basic bargaining rights. The biographies of the strike leaders in Profiles in Dissent reveal the human element behind this important incident. These men and women looked for humane answers to the problems of their contemporary world. Their efforts helped give birth to an active, organized Prairie labour movement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1896300081
• ISBN13: 9781896300085
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: NeWest Press
• Length: 421 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 8.4"