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SUMMARY:Showdown! Making Modern Unions Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join Rob Kristofferson and Simon Orpana for the launch of the graphic novel Showdown! Making Modern Unions on Saturday\, September 17th at 7 pm at the Workers Arts & Heritage Centre. \nSeventy years ago\, thousands of North American workers took a stand for a better life. And they won. In 1946\, in the United States\, over a million workers in the steel\, meatpacking\, and electrical industries put down their tools and walked out; and striking Canadian workers tied up provincial rubber and logging industries\, the Southam newspaper chain\, central Canadian ports\, and the national steel industry. Workers in Hamilton\, Ontario hoisted picket signs at Westinghouse\, Firestone\, Stelco\, and The Hamilton Spectator\, and with the support of rallying friends and neighbours\, turned the strikes into a community-wide struggle for decency\, respect\, and security. \nBased on interviews and other archival materials\, this graphic history illustrates how Hamilton workers translated their experience of work and organizing in the 1930s and early 1940s into a new kind of unionism and a new North American society in the decades following World War II. \nThis event is free to the public and all are welcome. Copies of Showdown! will be available for sale. Original art from Showdown! can be viewed during the launch in the exhibit “Draw the Line! Graphic Histories of Work\, Struggle and Activism” in our second floor Community Gallery. Showdown! is published by Between the Lines.
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