Raising the Workers' Flag: The Workers' Unity League of Canada, 1930-1936

by Stephen Endicott

Book Overview

During the Great Depression, the conflicting interests of capital and labour became clearer than ever before. Radical Canadian workers, encouraged by the Red International of Labour Unions, responded by building the Workers' Unity League - an organization that greatly advanced the cause of unions in Canada, and boasted 40,000 members at its height. In Raising the Workers' Flag, the first full-length study of this robust group, Stephen L. Endicott...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442612266
• ISBN13: 9781442612266
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher