Gompers in Canada : : A Study in American Continentalism Before the First World War / / Robert Babcock.
Samuel Gompers, the charismatic chief of the American Federation of Labor at the turn of the century, claimed to represent the interests of all workers in North America, but it was not until American corporations began to export jobs to Canada via branch plants that he became concerned with represen...
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