Sweatshop Strife: Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Jewish Labour Movement of Toronto, 1900-1939 by Ruth Frager textbook herbal traditions

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the young man tries to make sense of faith

a new immigrant escaping her Lower East Side sweatshop

The status of same-sex unions and the plight of the agunah (a woman who cannot obtain a divorce)

Sweatshop Strife: Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Jewish Labour Movement of Toronto, 1900-1939 by Ruth Frager textbook herbal traditionsIn the first half of the twentieth century, many of Toronto's immigrant Jews eked out a living in the needle trade sweatshops of Spadina Avenue. In response to their expliotation on the shop floor, immigrant Jewish garment workers built one of the most advanced sections of the Canadian and American labour movements. Much more than a collective bargaining agency, Toronto's Jewish labour movement had a distinctly socialist orientation and grew out of a