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Standing Up to Big Nickel: The Story of the Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers Strike, 1958 - Couverture souple

Quinlan, Elizabeth

 
9780228024804: Standing Up to Big Nickel: The Story of the Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers Strike, 1958
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ISBN 10 : 0228024803 ISBN 13 : 9780228024804
Editeur : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2025

Synopsis

All miners and smelter workers know the folly of going on strike when their employer holds a stockpile. In 1958 the International Nickel Company had enough nickel on hand to guarantee sales for at least six months. Despite this, fourteen thousand miners and smeltermen in Sudbury, Ontario, downed their tools and struck against the corporate titan of the mining industry. Standing Up to Big Nickel is a comprehensive portrait of a pivotal strike by the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, a union that has inspired exceptional levels of solidarity among its members. The Cold War and the resulting instabilities in the Canadian labour movement form the backdrop to Elizabeth Quinlan’s engrossing analysis. The union straddled the line, she shows, between its historical commitment to working-class struggle and the newly restrictive legal landscape of the postwar era. Retrospective accounts by surviving union members, leaders, family, and community members bring to life the history of a distinctive group of workers who sweated over smelter furnaces and toiled underground in perilous conditions. Quinlan traces the events before, during, and after one of Canada’s greatest strikes in both magnitude and duration. Featuring biographical sketches and scenes based on archival and documentary data, Standing Up to Big Nickel captures an intensely dramatic juncture in Canadian labour history.

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À propos de l'auteur

Elizabeth Quinlan is professor of sociology at the University of Saskatchewan.

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Éditeur
McGill-Queen's University Press
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0228024803
ISBN 13 
9780228024804
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
228
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