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Manufactured in Canada
Cover designed by Lena Yang
Cover photograph courtesy of Kenneth Whyte
Book composed by Karl Hunt
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Title: More than we bargained for: an untold story of exploitation,
redemption, and the men who built a worker’s empire / John Stefanini.
Names: Stefanini, Giancarlo, 1940-author.
Identifiers: Canadiana 20190082178 | ISBN 9781999439538 (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Stefanini, Giancarlo, 1940- | LCSH: Labor leaders—Canada—
Biography. | LCSH: Laborers’ International Union of North America.
Local 183—Officials and employees—Biography. | LCSH: Labor unions—
Canada—History—20th century. | CSH: Italian Canadians—
Biography. | LCGFT: Autobiographies.
Classification: LCC HD6525.S74 A3 2019 | DDC 331.88092—dc23
ISBN 978-1-9994395-3-8