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    612-822-4611

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Sweatshop Strife: Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Jewish Labour Movement of Toronto, 1900-1939

Sweatshop Strife: Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Jewish Labour Movement of Toronto, 1900-1939

Frager, Ruth

Paperback

Series: Heritage

General SociologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 0802068952
ISBN13: 9780802068958
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Nov 6 1992
Pages: 330
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

In the first half of the twentieth century, many of Toronto's immigrant Jews eked out a living in the needle-trade sweatshops of Spadina Avenue. In response to their expliotation on the shop floor, immigrant Jewish garment workers built one of the most advanced sections of the Canadian and American labour movements. Much more than a collective bargaining agency, Toronto's Jewish labour movement had a distinctly socialist orientation and grew out of a vibrant Jewish working-class culture.

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