Editing Winnipeg general strike (section)

==Historiography==
[[File:Grève générale Winnipeg 1919.jpg|thumb|Partially overturned streetcar during the strike]]

Discussion of the Winnipeg General Strike often begins with whether it was a conspiracy to overthrow the government or a fight for union recognition and a living wage. Given the scale of the strike and its political impact, it was difficult to consider it only an ordinary collective bargaining dispute.<ref>Kenneth McNaught and David J. Bercuson, ''The Winnipeg Strike: 1919'' (Toronto: Longman Canada, 1974), pp. 99–124.</ref> This led some historians to study local labour relations in detail,<ref>Bercuson, ''Confrontation at Winnipeg''.</ref> while others examined the nature of labour reform and radical activism in western Canada.<ref>A. Ross McCormack, ''Reformers, Rebels, and Revolutionaries: The Western Canadian Radical Movement, 1899–1919'' (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1977).</ref> Churches, immigrants, women, soldiers, and municipal politics have also been the subject of study.<ref name="Bumsted p. "/> The "red scare" promoted by business and government spokesmen attracted attention, as did the legal manoeuvres that led to the arrest and conviction of prominent strike supporters on charges of sedition.<ref>Kramer and Mitchell, ''When the State Trembled.''</ref>

While some historians regarded the strike as a western labour revolt rooted in unique conditions in western Canada, others have pointed to widespread labour unrest across Canada, both in 1919 itself <ref>Gregory S. Kealey, "1919: The Canadian Labour Revolt," ''Labour/Le Travail'', 13 (Spring 1984), pp. 11–44.</ref> and also during the years from 1917 to 1925.<ref>Heron, ''The Workers' Revolt in Canada.''</ref> Recent accounts of the strike have also noted that most strikers were not union members, suggesting that the events might be described as an urban rebellion against the failings of the capitalist social order as it existed at the end of World War I.<ref>Graphic History Collective and David Lester, ''1919: A Graphic History of the Winnipeg General Strike'' (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2019).</ref>