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Confrontation at Winnipeg: Labour, Industrial Relations, and the General Strike
ISBN: 9780773562677
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: General Strike Winnipeg Man. 1919; Industrial relations -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- History;

Why was Winnipeg the scene of the longest and most complete general strike in North American history? Bercuson answers this question by examining the development of union labour and the impact of depression and war in the two decades preceding the strike.

Bercuson was a special advisor to the Minister of National Defense and is still a member of the Minister of National Defense's monitoring committee. He was a former dean at Calgary College and is currently director of the university's strategic studies program.

In addition to writing several scholarly periodicals, Bercuson has written several books including Significant Incident: Canada's Army, the Airborne, and the Murder in Somalia.

(Bowker Author Biography)