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These essays introduce readers to the changing and complex character of class struggle in Canada. Individual essays focus on specific features of Canadian class struggle: regional differences, the role of gender, the character of trade union leadership to the specific nature of conflict in particular industries; and the general features of national periods of upheaval such as the year 1919 and the World War II period. [Of the eight essays, two are original to the volume, while the others are abridged or revised versions of articles that previously appeared in publications such as Labour/Le Travail and New Left Review.] --Publisher's description. Contents: Introduction (pages 9-14). Part 1. Varieties of capitalism, varieties of struggle: The nineteenth century experience (15-16). Class struggle and merchant capital: Craftsmen and labourers on the Halifax wonterfront, 1850-1902 / Ian McKay (17-36)-- The bonds of unity: The Knights of Labor in Ontario, 1880-1900 / Gregory S. Kealey and Bryan D. Palmer (37-65). Part 2. Monopoly capitalism and the unevenness of class struggle (66-67). Hamilton steelworkers and the rise of mass production / Craig Heron (68-89) -- 1919: The Canadian labour revolt / Gregory S. Kealey (90-114) -- The transformation of women's work in the Quebec cotton industry, 1920-1950 / Gail Cuthbert Brandt (115-34)). Part 3. Advanced capitalism and accommodating the class struggle (135-37). The malaise of compulsory conciliation: Strike prevention during World War II / Jeremy Webber (138-59) -- Feminism at work / Heather Jon Maroney (160-75) -- The rise and fall of British Columbia's Solidarity / Bryan D. Palmer (176-200). Bibliographical notes: pages 201-39.