AFTER THE STRIKE - LABOR-RELATIONS IN OSHAWA, 1937-1939

Contemporary historians of the Canadian working class have portrayed the period after the 1937 General Motors strike in Oshawa until the outbreak of World War II as one of slow growth and setbacks for the union movement, and between 1937 and 1939 union membership did decline. But an analysis of the repercussions of that strike and the impact of industrial unionism on the workers in their community, indicates that a new ''class consciousness'' emerged.