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This is a collection of commissioned essays that are purposively eclectic, but that address themes of importance in understanding labour's significance and history over the course of the last century, as well as suggesting how labour will inevitably face changing circumstances.

Comprised of articles from the original periodical, Woman worker.

Papers from a conference of Committee on Canadian Labour History and Llafur, the Society for the Study of Welsh Labour History, held in April 1987 near Newtown in Mid-Wales.

Bill Walsh began his career as an organizer for the Communist Party of Canada. He led the drive to organize the rubber workers in Kitchener and subsequently the auto workers in Windsor. He was jailed along with several hundred other Communists. Upon his release, Walsh fought overseas in Holland and Belgium. After the war he took a staff position with the United Electrical Workers in Hamilton.