Union Power: Solidarity and Struggle in Niagara Book

Acknowledgements vii

List of Abbreviations xi

Introduction 3

Canallers Fight for Work and Fair Wages 8

The Early Labour Movement 10

Class and Ethnicity in the Early Twentieth Century 16

Labour Revolt in Niagara 25

Welfare Capitalism in Niagara 34

Unemployment and Organization During the Great Depression 40

The Crowland Relief Strike 42

The Cotton Mill Strike, 1936-37 45

The Monarch Strike 51

The CIO at McKinnon Industries 54

Fighting for Democracy on the Home Front, 1939-45 56

Niagara Labour's Cold War 67

Women and Workers of Colour in the 1950s and 1960s 74

Ideologies Clashing: The 1970 UAW Strike 81

Strike Wave: 1972-76 84

Canadian Pulp and Paper Workers Fight Back 89

Corporate Restructuring and Labour's Decline 91

The Eaton's Strike: Women Workers Walk the Line 95

"Don't Lower the Standard": The Newsroom on Strike 99

Occupation in Thorold 102

Labour Builds Brock: Unions and the University 105

Living in a Dying Town: Deindustrialization in Welland 117

"Kicking Ass for the Working Class": Hotel Workers in Niagara 124

The House Advantage: Organizing Niagara's Casinos 149

Migrant Farm Workers in Niagara 164

Organized Labour and the New Democratic Party in Niagara 172

Conclusion 184

Notes 187

Index 203