Miners and steelworkers: Labour in Cape Breton by Paul MacEwan - 1976

Toronto: Samuel Stevens Hakkert and Company, 1976. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xiii) 400 pp. Blue/black boards lettered in gilt on the spine; endpaper maps; illustrated with black and white photographs. Wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a few nicks and chips around the edges; previous owner's name inside. The Contents are: The Background; The Provincial Workmen's Association; The United Mineworkers - 1909; The First Amalgamated; District 26 and BESCO; The Labour Sweep and Donald the Boo; 1922: Wage Cut, Slowdown and Strike; Smashing the Steelworkers; J. B. McLachlan: Crime and Punishment; The Situation Worsens; They Can't Stand the Gaff; 1925 - 1932: A DevelopingRift; The Second Amalgamated; The Last Days of J. B. McLachlan; The C.C.F. and Clarie Gillis; The Steelworkers Come Back; The Slowdown of 1941; The C.C.F. During the War Years; Two Strikes and Two Elections; The Decline of the Fifties; Vic MacInnis, Heavy Water and Other Ills; and The Struggle… Read More

Toronto: Samuel Stevens, 1976. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xiii, 400pp., index, biblio., notes, ill. Light wear and soil..

signed by Paul MacEwan on front flyleaf.hard cover with dust jacket v.g.