Sweatshop Strife: Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Jewish Labour Movement of Toronto, 1900-1939 by Ruth Frager textbook All Together Different offers a

All Together Different offers a fresh perspective on the nature of ethnic identity and working-class consciousness and contributes to current debates about the origins of multiculturalism

The status of same-sex unions and the plight of the agunah (a woman who cannot obtain a divorce)

Kvell-worthy fact: About 75 percent of American Jews give to charity versus 63 percent of Americans as a whole

throughout his career

Sweatshop Strife: Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Jewish Labour Movement of Toronto, 1900-1939 by Ruth Frager textbook All Together Different offers aIn 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