Sweatshop Strife: Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Jewish Labour Movement of Toronto, 1900-1939 by Ruth Frager Yiddish Learning you will be a master

you will be a master bagel-maker in no time

In discussing these and other questions

Ephraïm and Emma

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 you will be a masterIn 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