New Publication - For a Better World: The Winnipeg General Strike and the Workers’ Revolt
For a Better World
The Winnipeg General Strike and the Workers’ Revolt
James Naylor (Editor), Rhonda L. Hinther (Editor), Jim Mochoruk (Editor)
Canada’s largest and most famous example of class conflict, the Winnipeg General Strike, redefined local, national, and international discourse around class, politics, region, ethnicity, and gender. The Strike’s centenary occasioned a re-examination of this critical moment in working-class history.
Continuing the conversations begun in 2019, Editors Naylor, Hinther, and Mochoruk depict key events of 1919, detailing the dynamic and complex historiography of the Strike and the larger Workers’ Revolt that reverberated around the world and shaped the century following the war. The chapters delve into intersections of race, class, and gender and into settler colonialism’s impact on the conflict. Placing the struggle in Winnipeg within a broader national and international context, several contributors explore parallel strikes in Edmonton, Crowsnest Pass, Montreal, Kansas City, and Seattle.
For a Better World interrogates types of commemoration and remembrance, current legacies of the Strike, and its ongoing influence. Together, the essays in this collection demonstrate that the Winnipeg General Strike continues to mobilize—revealing our radical past and helping us to think imaginatively about collective action in the future.