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The workers' festival a history of Labour Day in Canada

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  • "History of Labour Day in Canada"@en

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  • "In The Workers' Festival, Craig Heron and Steve Penfold examine the complicated history of Labour Day from its origins as a spectacle of skilled workers in the 1880s through its declaration as a national statutory holiday in 1894 to its reinvention through the twentieth century. The holiday's inventors hoped to blend labour solidarity, community celebration, and increased leisure time by organizing parades, picnics, speeches, and other forms of respectable leisure. As the holiday has evolved, so too have the rituals, with trade unionists embracing new forms of parading, negotiating, and bargaining, and other social groups re-shaping it and making it their own. Heron and Penfold also examine how Labour Day's monopoly as the workers holiday has been challenged since its founding, with alternative festivals arising such as May Day and International Women's Day. (Midwest)."

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  • "The workers' festival a history of Labour Day in Canada"@en
  • "The workers' festival : a history of Labour Day in Canada"@en
  • "The workers' festival : a history of Labour Day in Canada"

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