The IWA, while closely linked to BC, has played a crucial role in nearly every province in Canada, from the Queen Charlotte Islands to Grand Falls, Newfoundland. The IWA in Canada is a definitive history of the union that follows its progress and setbacks throughout the past century. Its predecessors, the Industrial Workers of the World, the One Big Union, and the Lumber Workers? Industrial Union are examined, as are the historical tensions between craft and industrial unionism, the drive to organize the "timber beasts", and the pioneering role of communist activists. Today, the legendary militancy of IWA members is being brought to bear on the legalistic negotiations, environmental movements, and evolutions in governmental forest policy that continue to pose challenges.
Generously illustrated with historical and present?day photographs, and enriched by numerous interviews with founding unionists, The IWA In Canada also features capsule histories of each local. In?depth analysis of specific issues and events such as the mysterious death of Viljo Rosval and Jon Voutilainen, the fight for relief in the Great Depression and the Loggers? Navy can be found in sidebars that enhance the text throughout.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 331.88/13498/0971
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9781459311961 0921586809
- LCCN
- HD6528.L92
- LCCN Item number
- I92 2000eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- CaBVAU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xi, 321 p.)
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00603023 (OCoLC)605723693 (CaOOCEL)409280
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Foreword 10
- Acknowledgements 12
- CHAPTER ONE: Radical Roots 15
- CHAPTER TWO: Emergence of the IWA 45
- CHAPTER THREE: Breakthrough 77
- CHAPTER FOUR: Success and Struggle 121
- CHAPTER FIVE: Consensus to Conflict 201
- CHAPTER SIX: Out of the Woods 275
- Reflections On Our Past... And Our Future 318
- Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading 321
- Index 327
- A 327
- B 327
- C 327
- D 328
- E 328
- F 328
- G 329
- H 329
- I 329
- J 330
- K 330
- L 330
- M 331
- N 331
- O 332
- P 332
- Q 332
- R 332
- S 333
- T 333
- U 333
- V 334
- W 334
- Y 334
- Z 334
