Description
Book SynopsisInterrogates types of commemoration and remembrance, current legacies of the Winnipeg General Strike, and its ongoing influence. Together, the essays in this collection demonstrate that the Strike continues to mobilize - revealing our radical past and helping us to think imaginatively about collective action in the future.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 “Strike or Revolution” Redux: The Historiography of the Winnipeg General
- Chapter 2 In the Water: Race, Empire, and the Winnipeg General Strike
- Chapter 3 From Patriotism to Insurgency: The Shifting Allegiances of Winnipeg 1919’s Striker-Soldiers
- Chapter 4 Winnipeg Jews and the General Strike: “Adapt to the Institutions and the Manners of the Country”
- Chapter 5 The Edmonton General Strike
- Chapter 6 The Winnipeg General Strike in the Crowsnest Pass
- Chapter 7 Montréal’s Civil War: The Municipal Workers’ Strike of 1918
- Chapter 8 “Justice and Not Charity Should Be Your Demand!”: Montréal’s Unemployed and the Workers’ Revolt
- Chapter 9 The Kansas City General Strike: Wartime Solidarity in the American Midwest
- Chapter 10 The Seattle General Strike: Five Days that Matter
- Chapter 11 The Storm Before the Calm: Social and Political Upheaval in the Western Hemisphere
- Chapter 12 The Rural Nothing Worth Monkey Police, or the Winnipeg Origins of 100 Years of Canadian State Spying on Labour and the Left
- Chapter 13 Not by Repression Alone: Defeating the Workers’ Revolt by False Promises of Reform
- Chapter 14 Remembering 1919: Commemoration and the Winnipeg General Strike
- Chapter 15 Putting History to Work: Public History and Commemoration
- Chapter 16 The Winnipeg General Strike in the Twenty-First Century
