Yossi Mendelsohn works hard to help his family survive after they flee Russia to find a better life in Montreal. He sells newspapers and carries bundles from the garment factory. Yossi longs to play "le hockey" with the French boys, but...
Strikes and lockouts
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Author:Schwartz, EllenSummary: -
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:Bowden, Charles, Kesey, KenSummary:This wild-spirited tale tells of a bitter strike that rages through a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers. Out of the Stamper familys rivalries and betrayals Ken Kesey...
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Author:Kristofferson, Robert B.Summary:Seventy years ago, thousands of North American workers took a stand for a better life. And they won. In 1946, in the United States, over a million workers in the steel, meatpacking, and electrical industries put down their tools and...
- Author:Lambert, KevinSummary:
When millworkers in Roberval, a northern Quebec logging town, go on strike, the conflict rips the close-knit community apart, and despite the workers' solidarity, their individual struggles and demands further escalate tensions...
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Author:Mulder, MichelleSummary: - Author:Sembène, OusmaneSummary:
Ce roman, qui se déroule du Sénégal au Soudan (le Mali d'aujourd'hui), s'inspire de faits réels: la grève des cheminots du "Dakar-Niger", ces ouvriers noirs qui, entre eux, s'appellent les "Bouts de...
- Author:Sembène, OusmaneSummary:
In 1947-8 the workers on the Dakar-Niger Railway came out on strike. Sembène Ousmane, in this vivid and moving novel, evinces all of the colour, passion and tragedy of those decisive years in the history of West Africa.
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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...
- Author:Graphic History CollectiveSummary:
Art has always played a significant role in the history of the labour movement. Songs, stories, poems, pamphlets, and comics, have inspired workers to take action against greedy bosses and helped shape ideas of a more equal world. They...
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Author:Dublin, AnneSummary:In 1931 during the Great Depression sisters Sophie and Rose join the Toronto Dressmakers' Strike and the fight of their lives.
- Author:Graphic History CollectiveSummary:
Au mois de mai et juin 1919, plus de 30 000 travailleurs et travailleuses de Winnipeg, au Manitoba, quittent leur emploi. Ils mènent une grève pour diverses raisons - de meilleurs salaires, le droit à la négociation collective, et...
- Author:Graphic History CollectiveSummary:
Presents a graphic novel that revisits the strike to introduce new generations to its many lessons, including the power of class struggle and solidarity and the brutal tactics that governments and bosses use to crush workers'...
