LABRST 1A03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Industrial Unionism

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABRST 1A03
• Professor: David Goutor

Document Summary

Labour studies organization & strategies old and new lecture 17 nov,8, 2010. Wasn"t a lot of new innovation coming along that pushed out craft workers. They are socialists, allied with the soviet union. The orientation of communist, was focused on the soviet union. The strategy was to create their own organizations and do whatever they could to destabilize western countries. Believed to be allied to a new organization. They specially believed they had history on their side. Organize the unemployed, organize strikes, the unskilled workers. They take this to another level, and start to organize men in camps and causes strikes. They organize those camps, and begin to start a march and head east. The idea is they are going to pick up unemployed men, going east to ottawa to find work. So many unemployed people interested in finding work. They start heading to alberta and saskatchewan to find work.