Back To ListHard LessonsThe Mine Mill Union in the Canadian Labour MovementEdited byDieter K. BuseandPeter SuschniggandMercedes SteedmanPublished May 1995Paperback$ 17.99Paperback$ 17.99 Add to CartShop LocalDescriptionThis book emerges from the papers, panels, and discussion of the conference "Where the Past Meets the Future - the Place of Alternative Unions in the Canadian Labour Movement," held to commemorate the first one hundred years of the history of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union. The union, which began in 1893 as the Western Federation of Miners and grew to a membership of over one hundred thousand in fifty locals throughout Canada during the 1950s, had shrunk to a single local of sixteen hundred members in Sudbury, Ontario, by the 1990s. This book brings together the voices of contemporary labour leaders, activists, old timers, and academics.ContributorsDieter K. BuseDr. Dieter K. Buse is a Professor Emeritus of the History Department at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario.View Author Page Peter SuschniggPeter Suschnigg teaches at Laurentian University of Sudbury in Ontario.View Author Page Mercedes SteedmanMercedes Steedman teaches in the Department of Sociology at Laurentian University.View Author Page Book DetailsePubMay 1995-325 pp9781459725980ePubMay 1995-325 pp9781459727571PaperbackMay 19956x9 in325 pp9781550022230