Hard Lessons: The Mine Mill Union in the Canadian Labour Movement

This book emerges from the papers, panels, and discussion of the conference "Where the Past Meets the Future - the Place of Alternative Unions in the Canadian Labour Movement," held to commemorate the first one hundred years of the history of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union. The union, which began in 1893 as the Western Federation of Miners and grew to a membership of over one hundred thousand in fifty locals throughout Canada during the 1950s, had shrunk to a single local of sixteen hundred members in Sudbury, Ontario, by the 1990s. This book brings together the voices of contemporary labour leaders, activists, old timers, and academics.

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Hard Lessons: The Mine Mill Union in the Canadian Labour Movement

This book emerges from the papers, panels, and discussion of the conference "Where the Past Meets the Future - the Place of Alternative Unions in the Canadian Labour Movement," held to commemorate the first one hundred years of the history of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union. The union, which began in 1893 as the Western Federation of Miners and grew to a membership of over one hundred thousand in fifty locals throughout Canada during the 1950s, had shrunk to a single local of sixteen hundred members in Sudbury, Ontario, by the 1990s. This book brings together the voices of contemporary labour leaders, activists, old timers, and academics.

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Hard Lessons: The Mine Mill Union in the Canadian Labour Movement

Hard Lessons: The Mine Mill Union in the Canadian Labour Movement

Hard Lessons: The Mine Mill Union in the Canadian Labour Movement

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This book emerges from the papers, panels, and discussion of the conference "Where the Past Meets the Future - the Place of Alternative Unions in the Canadian Labour Movement," held to commemorate the first one hundred years of the history of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union. The union, which began in 1893 as the Western Federation of Miners and grew to a membership of over one hundred thousand in fifty locals throughout Canada during the 1950s, had shrunk to a single local of sixteen hundred members in Sudbury, Ontario, by the 1990s. This book brings together the voices of contemporary labour leaders, activists, old timers, and academics.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781459725980
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Publication date: 05/10/1995
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 325
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

Dr. Dieter K. Buse is a Professor Emeritus of the History Department at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario.
Peter Suschnigg teaches at Laurentian University of Sudbury in Ontario.
Mercedes Steedman teaches in the Department of Sociology at Laurentian University.
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