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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Introduction
  4. Part I: The Evolution of Local 401, 1997–2017
    1. 1. Facing New Challenges: From Safeway to Shaw
    2. 2. Victory at Lakeside
    3. 3. From Strength to Strength: A Paradoxical Path
  5. Part II: An Analysis of Transformation
    1. 4. Narratives and the Making of Local 401
    2. 5. Accidental Revitalization and the Role of Leadership
    3. 6. Revisiting the Business/Social Union Divide
  6. Conclusion
  7. Appendix A: UFCW Local 401 Timeline
  8. Appendix B: UFCW Local 401 Employers
  9. Appendix C: A Note on Method
  10. References

Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH
Series editors: Alvin Finkel and Greg Kealey

Labour activism has a long and powerful history in Canada. Since 1976, the Canadian Committee on Labour History has published Labour/Le Travail, Canada’s pre-eminent scholarly journal of labour studies. Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH, published in conjunction with AU Press, likewise focuses on the lives and struggles of Canada’s working people, past and present, and on the unions and other organizations that workers founded to represent their interests. The series specifically seeks to counter the notion that labour history is first and foremost an academic discipline, dominated by a relatively small and self-selected group of specialists. The books in the series accordingly span a wide range of genres—from oral histories, autobiographies, and memoir to works that document local and provincial labour movements to secondary analyses founded on careful research but written in a down-to-earth style. Underlying the series is the recognition that anyone who labours on behalf of another is a working person, and that, as working people, we continually participate in creating our own history. That history, which stands as a tribute to our collective strength, should not be solely an object of academic scrutiny. Rather, it is living part of our identity as working people and should be readily accessible to all.

Series Titles

Champagne and Meatballs: Adventures of a Canadian Communist
Bert Whyte, edited and with an introduction by Larry Hannant

Union Power: Solidarity and Struggle in Niagara
Carmela Patrias and Larry Savage

Working People in Alberta: A History
Alvin Finkel, with contributions by Jason Foster, Winston Gereluk, Jennifer Kelly and Dan Cui, James Muir, Joan Schiebelbein, Jim Selby, and Eric Strikwerda

Provincial Solidarities: A History of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour
David Frank

Solidarités provinciales: Histoire de la Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Nouveau-Brunswick
David Frank, traduit par Réjean Ouellette

The Wages of Relief: Cities and the Unemployed in Prairie Canada, 1929–39
Eric Strikwerda

Defying Expectations: The Case of UFCW Local 401
Jason Foster

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