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The company store : J.B. McLachlan and the Cape Breton coal miners, 1900-1925

The company store : J.B. McLachlan and the Cape Breton coal miners, 1900-1925

Book 2012

"With all the passion and forward thrust of a terrific novel, The Company Store is John Mellor's winning story of Labour’s Wars in Cape Breton Island. A much sought after book, it has been too long out of print, and it remains a good place for the general reader to start in digging into this essential story in the making of the character of industrial Cape Breton. The company store itself stands as a powerful symbol for the entire system against...