Author: David J. Bercuson
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Keywords: general, strike, relations, industrial, winnipeg, labour, confrontation
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1990-11
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0773507949
ISBN-13: 9780773507944

Why was Winnipeg the scene of the longest and most complete general strike in North American history? Bercuson answers this question by examining the development of union labour and the impact of depression and war in the two decades preceding the strike.