The Winnipeg General Strike was a six-week event in May and June of 1919 that united tens of thousands of workers in solidarity for basic bargaining rights. The biographies of the strike leaders in Profiles in Dissent reveal the human element behind this important incident. These men and women looked for humane answers to the problems of their contemporary world. Their efforts helped give birth to an active, organized Prairie labour movement and their experiences still have a bearing on our own situation at the end of the twentieth century. Coming at a time when Canada's social policies are being eroded and dismantled, Profiles in Dissent gives us a thoughtful and thoroughly readable reminder of why these policies and institutions were first put into place.