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Manitoba History: A Stitch in Time: Winnipeg Jews and the Garment Industry

by Stan Carbone
Winnipeg, Manitoba

Number 77, Winter 2015

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Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada Archives. Canadian Jewish Congress Bulletin, Congress Engaged in near-record Jewish Immigration into Canada, Montreal, 7 October 1948.

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Mochoruk, James D. and Donna Webber, “Women in the Garment Trade, 1929-1945” in Mary Kinnear (ed.) First Days, Fighting Days: Women in Manitoba History, Regina: Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina, 1987.

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Lindsay, Debra. The Clothes off our Back: A History of the ACTWU 459. Winnipeg: ACTWU, 1995.

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Wiest, Raymond (ed.). The Winnipeg Garment Industry: Industry Development and Employment: A Report for the Manitoba Research Alliance on Community Economic Development in the New Economy, 2005. A report for the Manitoba Research Alliance on Community Economic Development in the New Century, Project #4 Assessment of the Impact of New Technologies on Composition of the Labour Force in the Garment Industry in Manitoba. Includes the following papers:

Introduction (Raymond Wiest & Kathryn Mossman

a. Government Programs and the Government Industry (Aaron Pettman)
b. Technology in the Winnipeg Garment Industry (Leigh Hayden)
c. Labour Recruitment Strategies of the Winnipeg Garment Industry (Sara Stephens)
d. Training of Labour in the Winnipeg Garment Industry (Kathryn Mossman)
e. Worker Views on Changes in the Winnipeg Garment Industry (Amena Khatun)
f. Reflections on the Garment Industry in Winnipeg: Alternative Visions, Fashion, and Opportunities for Small Business (Erin Jonasson)

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