Charts the development of the region's labour movement from the early nineteenth century to the present. Carmela Patrias is a professor in the Department ofHistory at Brock University. Her publications include Patriots andProletarians: Politicizing Hungarian Immigrants in Canada;Discounted Labour: Women Workers in Canada, 1870?39,co-authored with Ruth Frager; and Jobs and Justice: FightingDiscrimination in Wartime Canada, 1939?45. LarrySavage is associate professor of labour studies and politicalscience and director of the Jobs and Justice Research Unit at BrockUniversity.