| #4866740 in Books | Ruth A Frager | 1992-11-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.99 x.93 x6.03l,1.15 | File type: PDF | 330 pages | Sweatshop Strife Class Ethnicity and Gender in the Jewish Labour Movement of Toronto 1900 1939||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Four Stars|By Albert|good book|||'A fascinating account of Jewish working-class activism and the relations between Jews across gender and class lines in the Toronto garment industry.' (Sonya O. Rose Signs)
|'Vigorously written, masterfully researched... a story at once full
In the first half of the twentieth century, many of Toronto's immigrant Jews eked out a living in the needle-trade sweatshops of Spadina Avenue. In response to their expliotation on the shop floor, immigrant Jewish garment workers built one of the most advanced sections of the Canadian and American labour movements. Much more than a collective bargaining agency, Toronto's Jewish labour movement had a distinctly socialist orientation and grew out of a vibrant Jewish wo...
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