Sweatshop Strife: Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Jewish Labour Movement of Toronto, 1900-1939 by Ruth Frager Yiddish Learning a story unfolds in which

a story unfolds in which Dick and Jane -- hero and heroine of the classic books for children that generations of Americans have used when learning to read -- manage to express shades of feeling and nuances of meaning that ordinary English just can't deliver

he will start to cause a mess soon enough

Paperback book 1998

Translated from the Yiddish by Harold Rabinowitz and Inna Hecker Grade

Sweatshop Strife: Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Jewish Labour Movement of Toronto, 1900-1939 by Ruth Frager Yiddish Learning a story unfolds in whichIn 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