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Working people

  • Desmond Morton

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"In this expanded and updated classic, Desmond Morton explores the history of the Canadian labour movement and brings the story to the present day with a discussion of globalization and its impact on workers. Working People examines the clash between the idealists, who fought for such "impossible" dreams as the eight-hour day, paid holidays, industrial democracy, and equality for woman, and the realists, who wrestled with the human realities of self-interest, prejudice, and fear.

It focuses on workers - from 19th-century dock workers to teenage "crews" at McDonald's today - and documents their struggle for dignity and security in a constantly changing world."--BOOK JACKET.

Genres

  • History
  • Histoire
  • Labor unions
  • Working class
  • Syndicats
  • Travailleurs
  • Labor movement
  • Labor and laboring classes
  • Trade-unions
  • Mouvement ouvrier
  • Working class, canada
  • Labor unions, canada
  • Labor movement, canada
  • Buddhism
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About the author

  • Desmond Morton

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Editions

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    4th ed., rev. and updated

    McGill-Queen's University Press

    1998

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    4th Rev&Up edition

    Mcgill Queens Univ Pr

    November 1999

  • Edition cover

    Buddhist Publication Society

    1979

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    Rev. ed.

    Deneau

    1984

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Deneau & Greenberg

1980

  • Edition cover

    3rd ed., rev. and updated.

    Summerhill Press

    1990

  • Edition cover

    Rev. ed. 1984

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    5 edition

    McGill-Queen's University Press

    August 2007

  • Edition cover

    5th ed., rev. and updated

    McGill-Queen's University Press

    2007