Leah goes deep to emphasize the heart and soul of the walkout a large group of committed shop stewards and the workers themselves Leah also highlights the significant participation of women both on the picket line and on the unions negotiating committee In addition to compiling an impressive bibliography Leah has combed through the minutes of key UAW international executive meetings and best of all dug up onthespot stories filed by reporters Numerous photos and reproduced banner headlines further enhance the flavour of daily developments There is much in Tony Leahs thorough account to savour Rod Mickleburgh Literary Review of Canada

Workers have shaped this community This book is proof of their fight their fire and their undeniable contributions to Oshawa and the whole country it is both a history lesson and a modernday howto book Its a story that makes you mad and fires you up The fight is not over and this book serves to inspire todays workers to fight for a better tomorrow for everyone Jennifer French Member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament for Oshawa

This would be a very useful book for unionbased readingdiscussion group dedicated to overcoming the carefully cultivated passivity that characterizes many unions today Buy the book tell your workmates about it then collectively make good use of its lessons Brian McDougall

An outstanding new book on a key event in Canadian Labour History Perhaps the most notable aspect of this historical review and reevaluation of the historic 1937 GM Oshawa strike is the authors insistence on studying this event with one eye trained on its relevance to the present day an admirable historical study Rob Rolfe former Poet Laureat of Owen Sound Ont and Toronto Trade Unionist

remarkable book Adam King The Maple

It takes the tenacity and truthfulness of a grassroot activist to tell the real story of workingclass politics Tony Leah does that in this behindthescenes tale of the historic 37 GM strike Sid Ryan Former President of the Ontario Federation of Labour

a remarkable piece of research a real substantial original contribution to the historiography of not just the Local but of the history of the UAW and the CAW in Canada Professor Stephanie Ross McMaster University School of Labour Studies

This really needs to be seen in part because it offers an important reinterpretation of this event in Canadian labour history beautifully crafted Its clear its thorough It reads almost like a novel Wayne Lewchuk Professor Emeritus McMaster University School of Labour Studies