Working People
The Winnipeg General Strike (w/ Srsly Wrong)
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We've got a super special crossover with the Wrong Boys themselves, Aaron and Shawn from the Srsly Wrong podcast! We teamed up to take a deep dive into the history and meaning of the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, the largest labor strike in Canada's history.
Additional links/info below...
- Srsly Wrong website, Twitter page, and Patreon
- Alberta Advantage, "General Strike! Winnipeg 1919-2019"
- The Magnificast, "The Winnipeg General Strike"
- Dennis Lewycky, Fernwood Books, "Magnificent Fight The 1919 Winnipeg General Strike"
- Reinhold Kramer & Tom Mitchell, University of Toronto Press, "When the State Trembled: How A.J. Andrews and the Citizens' Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike"
- Graphic History Collective & David Lester, Between the Lines, "1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike"
- Darren Bernhardt, CBC News, "The Wild Woman of the Winnipeg Strike"
- Mary Horodyski, Manitoba Historical Society, "Women and the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919"
- Tom Jokinen, The Walrus, "What the Winnipeg General Strike Can Teach Us About Class, Capitalism, and Greed"
- Meagan Day, Jacobin, "The Winnipeg General Strike Is Immortal"
- Ian Angus, Marxists.org, "What Socialists Learned from the Winnipeg General Strike"
- Isaac Wurmann, Luma, "Navigating History, Memory, and Mythology: The Challenges of Depicting the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike"
Featured Music
- Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall" - from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org
- Srsly Wrong theme by dope creature - https://soundcloud.com/dopecreature
- Fast Talkin by Kevin MacLeod - from Incompetech: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100590