SOAN 2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Winnipeg General Strike, On-To-Ottawa Trek, Confederate Ireland
16 Mar 2016
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Labour movement labour unions (generally work placed based) * women make 74 cents for every dollar that men make. labour based political parties. Toronto typographical union strike and the trade unions act, 1872. Royal commission on the relations of labour and capital, 1889. Workmen"s compensation act, ontario, 1914 (insurance from injured in the. Wartime labour relation regulations, order in counsel pc. But, wages were not keeping with the inflation, long work weeks, they had little job security, not much ventilation in the factories, child labor, few and weak unions, a government not eager to provide protection for workers. Trades and labor congress (trade unions are the shoe makers for ex) American federation of labor opposed to industrial unions socialism (influenced by marxism) National trades and labor congress (becomes cfl in 1909) Government and industry continue to view unions as impediments to prosperity. Quote from reading: view the slide: you can get black listed for forming a union.
