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Thinking Union: Activism and Education in Canada's Labour Movement
by D'Arcy Martin
Published in 1995 by Between the Lines. ISBN 0921284969
(Paperback, 200 Pages)
Description: "Over the past seventeen years, trade union educator D'Arcy Martin has conducted hundreds of courses for Canadian workers. He has learned that there are people -- "conscious romantics"-- who dream of a more egalitarian world while confronting the obstacles that stand in the way of building it."
This book can be ordered through the publisher at www.btlbooks.com, or by visiting the associated pages at the Chapters and Indigo websites.
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
by Robert Tressell
Published in 1991 by HarperCollins Canada, Limited. ISBN 0586090363
Published in the US by Acacia Press, Inc.
(Paperback, 592 pages)
Description: "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists tells the story of a group of working men who are joined one day by Owen, a journeyman-prophet with a vision of a just society. Owen's spirited attacks on the greed and dishonesty of the capitalist system rouse his fellow men from their political quietism. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is both a masterpiece of wit and political passion and one of the most authentic novels of English working class life ever written."
This book can be ordered by visiting the associated pages at the Chapters, Indigo, and Amazon.com websites.
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Union Learning: Canadian Labour Education in the Twentieth Century
by Jeffery Taylor, Athabasca University
Published in 2000 by Thompson Educational Publishing, ISBN 1550771175
(Paperback, 280 pages)
(A website devoted to this book - with information, illustrations, and sample chapters - is available by clicking here.)
Description: "Union Learning chronicles the rise and decline of the Workers' Educational Assocation, the development of internal union educational programmes, the consolidation of the Canadian Labour Congress's educational system after 1956, the origin and growth of the Labour College of Canada, and the patchy history of university and college involvement in labour education."
This book can be ordered directly from the publisher's website at www.thompsonbooks.com
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Waking up in the men's room : a memoir
by Catherine Macleod
Published in 1998 by Between the Lines. ISBN 1896357075
(Paperback, 160 Pages)
Description: "Poet, activist, and feminist, Catherine Macleod has produced a passionate memoir confronting the controversies that have defined her generation. Along the way, she evokes the demons and ideas that have marked her personal passage. Infusing her prose with the feminist wit that Michele Landsberg has observed in her poetry, Macleod brings her working-class perspective to bear on the politics of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, and the survival tactics of self-respect, spirituality, and recovery."
This book can be ordered through the publisher at www.btlbooks.com, or by visiting the associated pages at the Chapters and Indigo websites.
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The Canadian labour movement: a short history
by Craig Heron
Published by the University of Toronto Press. ISBN 1550281917
Description: This book is listed as OUT OF PRINT. You may, however, be able to find a second-hand copy using the BookFinder.com or BiblioFind search pages on the Internet.
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