The Canadian Auto Workers

Author : Sam Gindin
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1550284983

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The Canadian Auto Workers by Sam Gindin Pdf

Preface Introduction Part One: Waiting 1. Making Cars, Remaking People 2.Searching for a New Deal Part Two: The Union Arrives 3. The Breakthrough 4. Recognition 5. Delivering the Goods Part Three: Normal Isn't Normal Anymore 6. The Other Sixties 7. The Candy Man's Gone Part Four: Towards a New Unionism 8. Breaking Away 9. The More Things Change, The More They ... Change Again 10. Building Is Everything Suggested Readings

Author : Bob White
Publisher : McClelland and Stewart
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 077108837X

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Hard Bargains by Bob White Pdf

Bob White, president of the Canadian Auto Workers, is without a doubt the single most influential figure in the Canadian labour movement. Respected by workers and business leaders alike. White has become a major voice in national; affairs. All his life he has bargained hard, and more often that not, won.

Author : Dimitry Anastakis
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781442612976

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Autonomous State by Dimitry Anastakis Pdf

Autonomous State provides the first detailed examination of the Canadian auto industry, the country's most important economic sector, in the post-war period. In this engrossing book, Dimitry Anastakis chronicles the industry's evolution from the 1973 OPEC embargo to the 1989 Canada-US Free Trade Agreement and looks at its effects on public policy, diplomacy, business enterprise, workers, consumers, and firms. Using an immense array of archival sources, and interviews with some of the key actors in the events, Anastakis examines a fascinating array of topics in recent auto industry and Canadian business and economic history: the impact of new safety, emissions, and fuel economy regulations on the Canadian sector and consumers, the first Chrysler bailout of 1980, the curious life and death of the 1965 Canada-US auto pact, the 'invasion' of Japanese imports and transplant operations, and the end of aggressive auto policy-making with the coming of free trade. More than just an examination of the auto industry, the book provides a rethinking of Canada's tumultuous post-OPEC political and economic evolution, helping to explain the current tribulations of the global auto sector and Canada's place within it.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Labor
ISBN : UCR:31210026419158

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Canada by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephanie Ross,Larry Savage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0774870850

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Shifting Gears by Stephanie Ross,Larry Savage Pdf

Follows the evolution of the Canadian Auto Workers union. In the decades after the Second World War, autoworkers were at the forefront of the labor movement. Their union urged members to rally in the streets and use the ballot box to effect change for all working-class people. But by the turn of this century, the Canadian Auto Workers union had begun to pursue a more defensive political direction. Shifting Gears traces the evolution of CAW strategy from transformational activism to transactional politics. Class-based collective action and social democratic electoral mobilization gave way to transactional partnerships as relationships between the union, employers, and governments were refashioned. This new approach was maintained when the CAW merged with the Communications, Energy, and Paperworkers Union in 2013 to create Unifor, Canada's largest private-sector union. Stephanie Ross and Larry Savage explain how and why the union shifted its political tactics, offering a critical perspective on the current state of working-class politics.

Author : Pamela Haruchiyo Sugiman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015032276407

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Labour's Dilemma by Pamela Haruchiyo Sugiman Pdf

A examination of the politics of gender in the auto industry and in the labor movement from 1937 to 1979 in southern Ontario. Discusses women's roles in the United Automobile Workers, industrial restructuring and the UAW women's struggle for equality, and relationships between women in the workplace. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Canadian call number: C94-931771-3. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Dieter K. Buse,Peter Suschnigg,Mercedes Steedman
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995-05-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781459727571

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Hard Lessons by Dieter K. Buse,Peter Suschnigg,Mercedes Steedman Pdf

This book brings together the voices of contemporary labour leaders, activists, old timers, and academics to discuss the first hundred years of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union.

Author : Jason Russell
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459746046

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Canada, A Working History by Jason Russell Pdf

A deep exploration of the experience of work in Canada Canada, A Working History describes the ways in which work has been performed in Canada from the pre-colonial period to the present day. Work is shaped by a wide array of influences, including gender, class, race, ethnicity, geography, economics, and politics. It can be paid or unpaid, meaningful or alienating, but it is always essential. The work experience led people to form unions, aspire to management roles, pursue education, form professional associations, and seek self-employment. Work is also often in our cultural consciousness: it is pondered in song, lamented in literature, celebrated in film, and preserved for posterity in other forms of art. It has been driven by technological change, governed by laws, and has been the cause of disputes and the means by which people earn a living in Canada’s capitalist economy. Ennobling, rewarding, exhausting, and sometimes frustrating, work has helped define who we are as Canadians.

Author : Robert Laxer
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0888620969

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Canada's Unions by Robert Laxer Pdf

This book presents a picture of Canada's labour movement in the mid-seventies--its structure, its leaders, and aims. Two parallel themes run through Canada's Unions: the surge in labour militancy led by teachers, hospital workers, federal government workers and other public employees in response to the pressure of rising inflation; and the rise of nationalism and the increasing independence of the Canadian union movement during the 1970s. Canada's Union offers an unparalleled, immediate portrait of the state of the Canadian labour movement during a crucial decade of its existence.

Author : Pradeep Kumar,Christopher Robert Schenk
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1551930587

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Paths to Union Renewal by Pradeep Kumar,Christopher Robert Schenk Pdf

"The diverse cases and experiences examined in this book hold valuable lessons for labour everywhere." - Elaine Bernard, Harvard Law School

Author : Jim Stanford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 1783713275

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Economics for Everyone by Jim Stanford Pdf

"Economics is too important to be left to the economists. This concise and readable book provides non-specialist readers with all the information they need to understand how capitalism works (and how it doesn't). Economics for Everyone, now published in second edition, is an antidote to the abstract and ideological way that economics is normally taught and reported. Key concepts such as finance, competition and wages are explored, and their importance to everyday life is revealed. Stanford answers questions such as 'Do workers need capitalists?', 'Why does capitalism harm the environment?', and 'What really happens on the stock market?' The book will appeal to those working for a fairer world, and students of social sciences who need to engage with economics. It is illustrated with humorous and educational cartoons by Tony Biddle, and is supported with a comprehensive set of web-based course materials for popular economics courses."--Publisher's description.

Author : William C. Green,Ernest J. Yanarella
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1996-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438404745

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North American Auto Unions in Crisis by William C. Green,Ernest J. Yanarella Pdf

In this edited volume, U.S. and Canadian political scientists, sociologists, and labor educators contribute to the debate of the crisis of the Fordist regime of mass production and its implications for organized labor. They present the first comparative cross-national study of the labor relations in Japanese North American automobile transplants, Japanese joint ventures with the Big Three automakers, and Japanese-style General Motors auto plants. They specifically focus on the challenges the Japanese lean production model has posed to North American auto labor's organizing, collective bargaining, and shop floor representation experiences and how the United Auto Workers and the Canadian Auto Workers have responded to these challenges. The authors point to the pressing need for the North American labor movement, whose legal rights are rooted in a mass production regime, to rethink its interests and goals if it is to successfully confront the formidable obstacles presented by a changing international and hemispheric political economy increasingly dominated by Japanese lean production practices.

Author : Charlotte A. B. Yates
Publisher : Philadelphia : Temple University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1566390435

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From Plant to Politics by Charlotte A. B. Yates Pdf

In the wake of the continuing recession and destabilized global economy, theorizing about the industrial peace that reigned after World War II through the 1970s has undergone considerable revision. In this path-breaking discussion of Canadian labor relations, Charlotte Yates shows how the state-centered European theories of political economy did not fit the Canadian and United States experiences and treated them as anomalies. Through a case study of the Autoworkers Union in Canada (a branch of the UAW until 1984), Yates subjects this theorizing to critical scrutiny. Using extensive archives of union political activities, Yates describes how unions were demobilized in their relationships with the state, employers, and political parties as Fordist regulatory structures and practices forced unions to accept the constraints of responsible union behavior. She argues that the Canadian Autoworkers' collective identity and internal organizational structure counteracted these demobilizing tendencies. This historical legacy laid the groundwork for the Autoworker Union's return to militancy in the 1980s and 1990s and has shaped its responses to the pressures of economic globalization and heightened competition. From Plant to Politics demonstrates how continued union militancy in resisting concessions from employers and other attacks on unions has placed the union in a position of strength from which it now hopes to negotiate the Canadian path to a restructured economy. This study of the internal dynamics of a major union contributes to an understanding of unions as complex organizations engaged in strategic activities that have a definite impact on the national political economy.

Author : Greg Albo Albo
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781458775405

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In and Out of Crisis by Greg Albo Albo Pdf

In this groundbreaking study of the financial meltdown, renowned radical political economists lay bare the roots of the crisis in the inner logic of capitalism itself. Objective and detailed, this account provocatively challenges the call for a return to a largely mythical golden age of economic regulation as a check on finance capital. In addition, it deftly illuminates how the era of neoliberal free markets has been, in practice, under-girded by state intervention on a massive scale. Arguing for genuinely transformative alternatives to capitalism, and discussing how to build the collective capacity to realize these goals, this record is a critique of the crisis and an indispensable springboard for a renewed political left.

Author : Dimitry Anastakis
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781552770054

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Car Nation by Dimitry Anastakis Pdf

Canadians fell in love with the car at first glance. They were scared by it too, and by its potential. Canada was quick to become a car nation, as the automobile was enthusiastically adopted by Prairie grain farmers, the new modern woman, travellers to the north, and rough-and-tumble adventurers looking for a thrill by traversing the immense length of the country. The automobile was the symbol of the modern Canada of the twentieth century, and the final victory of technology over landscape. Canadians were building cars from the beginning. Independent firms and branches of the big American manufacturers vied for the lucrative Canadian market. Automaking has been an integral part of Canada's economy since the car's introduction. For more than a century, Canadians have lived with this automobile revolution, and all the consequences and permutations that it represents. Blending social, cultural and economic history, Dimitry Anastakis's engaging text tells the fascinating story of the car across Canada from earliest days, when cars and horses jockeyed for parking space, to the multilane freeways of the twenty-first century.