{"product_id":"for-a-better-world-the-winnipeg-general-strike-and-the-workers-revolt-9780887552991","title":"For a Better World  The Winnipeg General Strike","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInterrogates 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter  1 “Strike or Revolution” Redux: The Historiography of the Winnipeg General \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter  2 In the Water: Race, Empire, and the Winnipeg General Strike \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter  3 From Patriotism to Insurgency: The Shifting Allegiances of Winnipeg 1919’s Striker-Soldiers \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter  4 Winnipeg Jews and the General Strike: “Adapt to the Institutions and the Manners of the Country” \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter  5 The Edmonton General Strike \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter  6 The Winnipeg General Strike in the Crowsnest Pass \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter  7 Montréal’s Civil War: The Municipal Workers’ Strike of 1918 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter  8 “Justice and Not Charity Should Be Your Demand!”: Montréal’s Unemployed and the Workers’ Revolt \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter  9 The Kansas City General Strike: Wartime Solidarity in the American Midwest\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter  10 The Seattle General Strike: Five Days that Matter \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter  11 The Storm Before the Calm: Social and Political Upheaval in the Western Hemisphere \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter  12 The Rural Nothing Worth Monkey Police, or the Winnipeg Origins of 100 Years of Canadian State Spying on Labour and the Left \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter  13 Not by Repression Alone: Defeating the Workers’ Revolt by False Promises of Reform \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter  14 Remembering 1919: Commemoration and the Winnipeg General Strike \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter  15 Putting History to Work: Public History and Commemoration \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter  16 The Winnipeg General Strike in the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"MP-MTB University of Manitoba Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039069241687,"sku":"9780887552991","price":25.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780887552991.jpg?v=1750942460","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/for-a-better-world-the-winnipeg-general-strike-and-the-workers-revolt-9780887552991","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}