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SUMMARY:Labour Struggle in the United States and Canada, 1876 - 1878: Reflections on Connected Histories
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 Jean-Philip Mathieu, History Department, University 
 of Quebec, speaker\n
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 In late December 
 1876, railway workers affiliated with the Brotherhood 
 of Locomotive Engineers go on strike 
 and succeed in paralyzing and defeating the 
 Grand Trunk Railway, the largest and most powerful 
 corporation in Canada. In the summer of 
 1877, the Great Labour Uprising erupts in the 
 United States, one of the most intense and 
 bloody confrontations between capital and labour 
 in North American history. In June 1878, 
 thousands of desperate men living on the razor's 
 edge of public works force a general strike 
 in Québec City with the goal of creating a 
 minimum wage of one dollar a day. These three 
 confrontations, all taking place during the 
 nadir of the Great Depression, are usually viewed 
 as isolated events in standard national 
 labour histories. However, as this paper will 
 demonstrate, events such as these were rarely 
 confined by the porous borders of the nineteenth-century. 
 By reflecting on the connections 
 linking these three clashes, we will argue 
 that labourers in Québec City or Toronto had 
 more in common with workers in Chicago or Saint-Louis 
 than they had with their own employers, 
 and that the North American working class 
 shared a common historical trajectory that 
 transcended national boundaries.\n
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 Cosponsored 
 by the Canadian Studies Center and Our Daily 
 Work, Our Daily Lives.\n
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