A new critical edition of the acknowledged best Canadian novel of the 1930s. Irene Baird’s Waste Heritage is a groundbreaking work of Canadian fiction based on the dramatic and violent labour disputes that took place in British Columbia...
Labor disputes
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Author:Baird, Irene, Hill, ColinSummary: -
Author:Haddix, Margaret PetersonSummary:In 1927, at the urging of twenty-one-year-old Harriet, Mrs. Livingston reluctantly recalls her experiences at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, including miserable working conditions that led to a strike, then the fire that took the...
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Author:Ballman, DonnaSummary:Hate your job? Ready to quit? Facing a layoff before you even have a chance to quit? Is your boss is a flaming jerk? Think you might have a lawsuit? If any of these scenarios apply to you, you are facing a crucial career moment....
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Author:Zola, ÉmileSummary:A father and three children, with four more at home, toil brutal hours in the coal mines of nineteenth-century France but still can barely afford to eat. Soon the settlement is aflame with a plan for revolt.
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Author:Zola, EmileSummary:Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Forced to take a back-breaking job at Le Voreux mine when he cannot get other work, he discovers that his fellow miners are ill...
