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A book about succeeding because you are Canadian - not in spite of it. About doing all those things we're not supposed to be very good at. Things like outmaneuvering monster corporations; like standing up to the Americans; like putting regional differences aside; like blowing the whistle on polluters; like rising above linguistic differrences. But, most of all, it's about cracking the Canadian formula--about learning how to win on our own terms, in our own time, in our own way. No fuss. No muss. Cracking the Canadian Formula is not just the story of Canadians building a unique union. The story of how we succeed in Canada when we have the courage to try it our own way. That makes it the story of far. It also makes it a story that might just hold the secret of Canadian yet to come." -- Publisher's description. "This is the encyclopedia of what unions can do to help build a made-in-Canada movement for personal, social and economic independence." -- Mel Hurtig.
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If these arguments are correct [i.e., arguments against a sexist psychological interpretation], then we must set ourselves another course to explain the failure of working class women in the 1896 to 1914 [period] to respond to their problems in a more explicitly collective fashion. The framework for such an alternative explanation rests upon a more concrete understanding of the work-life and work-place ecology of working women. Reliance on reliable clichés and "momified" abstractions about feminine psychology has hindered a recognition of the strictures that demographic and occupational influences placed on the possibilities for a concerted action. Combined with an appreciation of some of the thoughts and activity of working women, this approach should help us to reevaluate both the objective constraints and organizing capacities of the woman worker and the interplay of various aspects of her consciousness--particularly her feminism, her sense of feminity and her class consciousness. --From author's introduction
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Biography.
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Contents: The working man in a frontier town, Hamilton, 1820-1850 ; The railway city, 1850-1870 / John Weaver -- Researching the Hamilton working class, 1870-1900 / Bryan Palmer -- The working class of Hamilton, 1900-1930 / Craig Heron -- The labour movement of Hamilton, 1930-1956 -- Selected bibliography of Hamilton labour, 1956-1977 / Charlotte A. Stewart.
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How did an association formed in 1911 for self-help and social purposes become one of the largest and strongest unions in Ontario? [This book] is the story of that transformation: a history of the evolution of government in Canada's largest province, and of the working women and men who built the Ontario Public Services Employees Union. Analysis and anecdotes are woven into a tale of workers coping with a paternalistic employer, repressive laws and internal battles. Their story is an important part of the province's labour and political heritage. --Publisher's description
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The introduction to the memorable collection of photographs of Hamilton workers, All That Our Hands Have Done...announced: "Labour history is a new field. It demands new methods, new sources, new questions and new, mutual relations between researchers and their subjects." --From David Sobel, "Remembering Wayne Roberts, 1944-2021," Labour/Le travail, 87 (Spring 2021) 15.
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