LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Sitdown Strike, Mitchell Hepburn, Oshawa
10 Apr 2013
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Biggest breakthrough in american labour movement was during the depression. Surprising trend: union surge in depression era. Wild gulf between canada and us: canada is not always more progressive than the us, been times when the us has been more progressive than canada, 1930s is a time like that, working class mobilization, popular mobilization. Fdr: president starting in 1933 when depression is at its worst, launches the new deal. Were just fed up with bad conditions. Workers decided they had enough of bad conditions and wanted better. Want say in how work is run. Tired of level of control and power that employers have over them. 1932-33: people were less willing to trust business people to know what they were doing, less willing to listen to what economists were saying. Generation of labour leaders who come through in the 1930s. Had a sense that this was the moment, wanted to seize the moment.
