"In *The Canadian Labour Movement*, Craig Heron recounts the story of labour from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. A masterful overview that encompasses all regions of the country, the book paints a vivid portrait of labour's varied past, covering the birth of craft unionism prior to World War I, the setback of the interwar years, and the post-World War II breakthrough that gave unions a permanent, if still constrained, place in the national economy. In its analysis of the more recent past, *The Canadian Labour Movement* ranges just as widely, discussing everything from the organization of public sector employees in the sixties to the anti-free-trade coalition of the eighties and the massive layoffs of the nineties. The second edition of this book has been revised to cover events and trends up to the end of 1996. A glossary of labour centrals has also been added."