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A revised and updated edition of Morton's classic story of Canada's labour movement. From the dock workers of Saint John in 1812 to teenage "crews" at McDonald's today, Canada's trade union movement has a long, exciting history. Working People tells the story of the men and women in the labour movement in Canada and their struggle for security, dignity, and influence in our society. Desmond Morton highlights the great events of labour history - the 1902 meeting that enabled international unions to dominate Canadian unionism for seventy years, the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, and an obscure 1944 order-in-council that became the labour's charter of rights and freedoms. He describes the romantic idealism of the Knights of Labor in the 1880s and looks at "new model" unions that used their members' dues and savings to fight powerful employers. Working People explores the clash between idealists, who fought for socialism, industrial democracy, and equality for women and men, and the realists who wrestled with the human realities of self-interest, prejudice, and fear. Morton tells us about Canadians who deserve to be better known - Phillips Thompson, Helena Gutteridge, Lynn Williams, Huguette Plamondon, Mabel Marlowe, Madeleine Parent, and a hundred others whose struggle to reconcile idealism and reality shaped Canada more than they could ever know. "From the dock workers of Saint John in 1812 to teenage "crows" at McDonald's today, Canada's trade union movement has a long, exciting history, Working People tells the story of the men and women in the labour movement in Canada and their struggle for security, dignity, and influence in our society." "Desmond Morton highlights the great events of labour history - the 1902 meeting that enabled international unions to dominate Canadian unionism for seventy years, the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, and an obscure 1944 order-in-council that become labour's charter of rights and freedoms. He describes the romantic idealism of the Knights of Labor in the 1880s and looks at "new model" unions that used their members' dues and savings to fight powerful employers." "Working People explores the clash between idealists, who fought for socialism, industrial democracy, and equality for women and men, and the realists who wrestled with the human realities of self-interest, prejudice, and fear."--Jacket Contents Foreword to the Fifth Edition Acknowledgments 1 Working People 2 Getting Organized 3 International Ideas 4 Political Movement 5 Labour Reformers 6 Hinterland Labour 7 Trades and Labour 8 Gompers's Shadow 9 Business, Labour, and Governments 10 Labour Radicals 11 Labour and the First World War 12 Western Revolt 13 Unroaring Twenties 14 Surviving the Depression 15 Industrial Unionism 16 Fighting Hitler and Management 17 "People Coming into Their Own" 18 No Falling Back 19 Struggle for Allegiance 20 The Merger Movement 21 Times of Frustration 22 Prosperity and Discontent 23 Public Interest, Public Service 24 Justice and Nationalism 25 Quebec and the Common Front 26 Scapegoat for Inflation 27 Recession and Hard Times 28 Levelling the Playing Field 29 Struggling to the Millennium 30 Millennial Achievements Graphs: Changes in the Labour Movement Further Reading Abbreviations Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y