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This volume examies the lives of Eastern European Jewish immigrants living in Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg in the early twentieth century. The stories encompass their travels and travails on leaving home and their struggles in the sweatshops and factories of the garment industry in Canada. Based...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Waterloo, Ont. :
Wilfred Laurier University Press,
2010
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| Colección: | Life writing series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This volume examies the lives of Eastern European Jewish immigrants living in Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg in the early twentieth century. The stories encompass their travels and travails on leaving home and their struggles in the sweatshops and factories of the garment industry in Canada. Based on extensive interviews, these immigrants' stories about life in the Old Country and the hardship of finding work in Canada, these tales tell how many of these newcomers ended up in the needle trades. Revealing a fervent sense of socialist ideology acquired in the crucible of the Russian Revolution, the stories illustrate the influence of Jewish culture and traditions, of personal--and organized--fights against exploitation, and of struggles to establish unions for better working conditions. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxvi, 285 pages : portraits. |
| ISBN: | 9781554582389 1554582385 9781554583164 1554583160 9781554583010 1554583012 1554582199 9781554582198 1299313035 9781299313033 |