SOSC 3210 Chapter Notes - Chapter ---: Bolsheviks, Living Wage, Moral Economy
3 Apr 2016
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6 february the rise and fall of the workers" revolt: the winnipeg general strike. David bercuson, the winnipeg general strike, in irving abella, ed. , on strike: six. Key labour struggles in canada, 1919-1949. (toronto: j. lewis and samuel, 1974): The first moments of a general strike take place against a background of many years of bitter relationships, class polarization, frustrated ambitions and real or imagined oppression. The winnipeg general strike of may and june 1919 fits snugly into this well-established pattern because its taproots may be found grow- ing into the very bedrock of winnipeg"s development as a booming modern industrial centre. Winnipeg was ripe for a general strike in the spring of 1919 because the division of the city into two separate and increasingly hostile camps had started so long before and had reached a point of no return. Business in winnipeg was anti-union from the beginning,
