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The article reviews the book, "Labor's Flaming Youth: Telephone Operators and Worker Militancy 1878-1923," by Stephen H. Norwood.
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...In this thesis we examine the history of the telephone workers, from their earliest organizing efforts to their public campaigns of today. In restricting the restructuring of their work, telephone workers have often been in the leadership successfully applying and developing militant labour tactics, from the first successful "hello girls" strike of 1902 to the dramatic provincial-wide seizing of exchanges by telephone workers in 1981. The history of the Telecommunications Workers Union provides a valuable case study of workers' efforts to build and maintain their union in [the] face of massive and continual technological change.
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This article reviews the book, "The Shopfloor Politics of New Technology," by Barry Wilkinson.
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Presents seven papers from the workshop: "Feminist Reflections on the Writing of Canadian Working Class History in the 1980s" by Kathryn McPherson, "Peculiarities of British Columbians" by James R. Conley, "The British Columbia Working Class: New Perspectives on Ethnicity/Race and Gender" by Gillian Creese, "Teaching Working Class History in B.C." by Peter Seixas, "Labour Programmes: A Challenging Partnership" by Elaine Bernard, "Labour Historians and Unions: Assessing the Interaction" by Michael J. Piva, and "The New Brunswick Experience" by Raymond Leger.
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