James Naylor

100 years after: Winnipeg General Strike

James Naylor / October 16, 2018 / 4 min read

What made the Strike “general” was that it mobilized an entire class. But perhaps half of the strikers were not union members at all. Most remarkably, the Strike mobilized in large numbers those who had benefitted little from a labour movement dominated by skilled men of mostly British origin who appeared primarily interested in defending their own relatively privileged place in the labour market.

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