International background-Canadian roots, 1890-1929
By: produced, directed and written by Arthur Hammond.
Contributors: National Film Board of Canada.
Series: Imperfect union :
Publisher: National Film Board of Canada
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Montreal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 54
Subjects: Labor movement -- Canada -- History.; Trade-unions -- Canada -- History.
Notes: FOR CLASSROOM USE ONLY.   Part 1 looks at the problematic relationship of Canadian unions and the New Democratic Party on the eve of the 1980's, as the Socialist International meets in Vancouver. It also covers the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain; the birth of both modern trade unions and democratic socialism; the alliance of trade unions and socialists in 19th-century Sweden, Australia, and the United States; British, American and European immigration on American trade unions; the first World War; the Russian Revolution; the Winnipeg General Strike, Western radicalism, the rivalry of J.S. Woodsworth and Mackenzie King for working class votes; the British Parliamentary system; and the Great Depression of the 1930's.

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