Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
2004
Abstract
A strike is a privileged moment for the historian. Floodlights get shone on the working lives of wage earners that would otherwise get little public attention. Issues of collective working-class organization and politics stand out vividly. The relative power of contending forces in capitalist society is starkly clear. And the events of the confrontation typically provide plenty of high drama. Stephen Endicott has taken hold of these elements in a well-remembered miners' strike on the Canadian Prairies and given us a fascinating, beautifully written account of working-class struggle in the depths of the Depression.
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Published in Great Plains Quarterly 24:1 (Winter 2004). Copyright © 2004 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.