Matthew’s Reviews > Working People: An Illustrated History of the Canadian Labour Movement > Status Update

Morton might have provided an exhaustive history, but a deeply incurious one. The man spends far too little time on the why, in favor of covering every strike. The Rand formula, and the 1947 Ford Strike get one page, and the intellectual or social context for the labor movement is almost absent. There is a strong sense of internecine conflict and macro economic crippling labour, but even this is poorly explained