Bookworm, no. 115

Ted Fraser reviews Elizabeth Quinlan’s “Standing Up to Big Nickel.” Selena Mercuri on Lee Lai’s “Cannon.” A cover artist Q&A. Inside the October issue.

Nickel and Dimed

Standing Up to Big Nickel: The Story of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers’ Strike, 1958
Elizabeth Quinlan
McGill-Queen’s University Press
228 pages, softcover and ebook

On September 24, 1958, all 14,000 members of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers’ Union in Sudbury, Ontario, walked off the job. In a David and Goliath showdown, they challen…