Smelter Wars : A Rebellious Red Trade Union Fights for Its Life in Wartime Western Canada /

In 1938, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) sent communist union organizer Arthur "Slim" Evans to the smelter city of Trail, British Columbia, to establish Local 480 of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. Six years later the local was recognized as the le...

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Autor principal: Verzuh, Ron (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2022]
Colección:Canadian Social History Series
Temas:
Industrial relations > British Columbia > Trail > History.
Iron and steel workers > Labor unions > British Columbia > Trail > History.
Labor unions > British Columbia > Trail > History.
Smelting > British Columbia > Trail > History.
Subsidies > British Columbia > Trail > History.
HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-).
British Columbia.
CCF.
Canadian history.
Cold War.
Congress of Industrial Organizations.
Trail.
communism.
ethnicity.
labor.
labour.
mill.
mining.
race.
smelting.
union.
wartime.
western Canada.
women.
workplace.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • List of Acronyms
  • Map
  • Introduction: A Smelter City Is Born
  • 1 A Red Union Comes to Town
  • 2 Battling Blaylock's Company Union
  • 3 Women War Workers and Ladies Auxiliary Politics
  • 4 Mine-Mill Courts Trail's Immigrant Enclave
  • 5 A Clash of Ideologies in the Kootenays
  • 6 Steel's Cold Warriors Raid Trail's Red Union
  • 7 Resisting Canadian McCarthyism in British Columbia
  • Conclusion: The Complicated History of Local 480
  • Epilogue: The Smelter City Today
  • Notes
  • Sources
  • Index
  • THE CANADIAN SOCIAL HISTORY SERIES

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