Browsing by Author "Finkel, Alvin"
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The Baby Boomers Become the Workers, 1960-1980
Finkel, Alvin (2010-09-23)The focus would be on the young labour force of this period, changing social values, and the impact on working-class lives and on trade unionism. The switch from company unionism in the provincial civil service to AUPE, ... -
Collaborating with Unions to Tell the Workers’ Story: the Celanese Edmonton Workers’ Commemoration Project
Finkel, Alvin (2010-06-23)Over the past 8 years, the Alberta Labour History Institute (ALHI) has produced videos and transcriptions of over 200 interviews with trade union leaders, activists, and rank-and-filers in an effort to produce a workers' ... -
Telling Alberta Workers' Story
Finkel, Alvin (2013-07-09)Alvin Finkel, "Telling Alberta Workers' Story": This paper will deal with the strengths and weaknesses of the Alberta Labour History Institute's efforts to work closely with the union movement in "Project 2012" to tell the ... -
Workers social wage struggles in the Great Depression and the era of Neo-Liberalism: International Comparisons
Finkel, Alvin (2011-11-02)This paper looks globally at the ways in which workers attempted to win a degree of income stability through state guarantees of social entitlements in two periods: first, the Great Depression, when income stability via ...