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Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Canallers Fight for Work and Fair Wages

The Early Labour Movement

Class and Ethnicity in the Early Twentieth Century

Labour Revolt in Niagara

Welfare Capitalism in Niagara

Unemployment and Organization During the Great Depression

The Crowland Relief Strike

The Cotton Mill Strike, 1936–37

The Monarch Strike

The CIO at McKinnon Industries

Fighting for Democracy on the Home Front, 1939–45

Niagara Labour’s Cold War

Women and Workers of Colour in the 1950s and 1960s

Ideologies Clashing: The 1970 UAW Strike

Strike Wave: 1972–76

Canadian Pulp and Paper Workers Fight Back

Corporate Restructuring and Labour’s Decline

The Eaton’s Strike: Women Workers Walk the Line

“Don’t Lower the Standard”: The Newsroom on Strike

Occupation in Thorold

Labour Builds Brock: Unions and the University

Living in a Dying Town: Deindustrialization in Welland

“Kicking Ass for the Working Class”: Hotel Workers in Niagara

The House Advantage: Organizing Niagara’s Casinos

Migrant Farm Workers in Niagara

Organized Labour and the New Democratic Party in Niagara

Conclusion

Notes

Index

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