Ron Verzuh

Smelter Wars

A Rebellious Red Trade Union Fights for Its Life in Wartime Western Canada

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Produktbeschreibung

Smelter Wars examines a radical BC trade union’s struggle to survive from the 1930s to the 1950s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781487541118
• ISBN-10: 1487541112
• Artikelnr.: 62853996

Autorenporträt

By Ron Verzuh

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
Acknowledgments
List of Acronyms
Preface 
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 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