The Canadian Labour Movement

Author : Craig Heron
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781550285222

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The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History by Craig Heron Pdf

The Canadian Labour Movement is a fascinating story that brings to life the working men and women who built Canada's unions. This concise history recounts the story of Canadian labour from the nineteenth century to the present day. First published in 1989, it has been updated to include new developments in the world of labour up to 1995. Heron depicts the major events and trends in labour's history, and assesses the current state and direction of the labour movement. The Canadian Labour Movement is a masterful overview of the subject, providing a broad and accessible introduction to Canadian labour.

Author : Craig Heron
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781459415249

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The Canadian Labour Movement by Craig Heron Pdf

In The Canadian Labour Movement, historian Craig Heron and political scientist Charles Smith tell the story of Canada's workers from the midnineteenth century through to today, painting a vivid picture of key developments, such as the birth of craft unionism, the breakthroughs of the fifties and sixties, and the setbacks of the early twenty-first century. The fourth edition of this book has been completely updated with a substantial new chapter that covers the period from the great recession of 2008 through to 2020. In this chapter, Smith describes the fallout of the financial crisis, how Stephen Harper's government restricted labour rights, the rise of the "gig economy" and precarious work, and the continued de-industrialization in the private sector. These pressures contributed to fracturing the movement, as when Unifor, the largest private sector union, split from the Canadian Labour Congress, the established "house of labour." Through it all, rank-and-file union members have fought for better conditions for all workers, including through campaigns like the fight for a $15 minimum wage. The Canadian Labour Movement is the definitive book for anyone interested in understanding the origins, achievements, and challenges of the labour and social justice movements in Canada.

Author : Craig Heron
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781459400573

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The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History by Craig Heron Pdf

In The Canadian Labour Movement, historian Craig Heron tells the story of Canada's workers from the mid-nineteenth century through to today, painting a vivid picture of key developments such as the birth of craft unionism, the breakthroughs of the fifties and sixties, and the setbacks of the early twenty-first century. This new edition has been completely updated, including a substantial new chapter that covers the period from 1995 to 2011. In this chapter, Heron describes the rise of globalization and the restructuring of the private sector that began in the nineties and continues today. The results have been catastrophic for Canadian working people as plants closed and union activities were curtailed. As the political right succeeded in dominating public debate during this period, workers suffered ever greater losses: fewer and more precarious jobs, rising unemployment, stagnating wages, and increases in poverty. Only with the crash of 2008 and the Occupy Wall Street movement has space for the political left and labour begun to open up once again. The Canadian Labour Movement is the definitive book for anyone who is interested in understanding the origins, achievements, and challenges of labour and social justice movements in Canada.

Author : David Goutor
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774840903

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Guarding the Gates by David Goutor Pdf

From the 1870s until the Great Depression, immigration was often the question of the hour in Canada. Politicians, the media, and an array of interest groups viewed it as essential to nation building, developing the economy, and shaping Canada's social and cultural character. One of the groups most determined to influence public debate and government policy on the issue was organized labour, and unionists were often relentless critics of immigrant recruitment. Guarding the Gates is the first detailed study of Canadian labour leaders' approach to immigration, a key battleground in struggles between different political factions within the labour movement. This book provides new insights into labour, immigration, social, and political history.

Author : Craig Heron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Canada
ISBN : OCLC:1011710545

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The Canadian Labour Movement by Craig Heron Pdf

Author : Stephanie Ross,Errol Black,Larry Savage,Jim Silver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Labor movement
ISBN : 1552667871

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Building a Better World by Stephanie Ross,Errol Black,Larry Savage,Jim Silver Pdf

Revision of: Black, Errol. Building a better world.

Author : Desmond Morton
Publisher : Firefly Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015034243827

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Working People by Desmond Morton Pdf

Author : Gerald Hunt,David Rayside
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442691025

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Equity, Diversity & Canadian Labour by Gerald Hunt,David Rayside Pdf

In recent years, the Canadian labour movement has undergone fundamental change in response to demands for greater inclusion and representation by women, visible and sexual minorities, and people with disabilities. Equity, Diversity, and Canadian Labour explores the specific challenges put to outmoded attitudes and practices, charting the efforts made by organized labour in Canada towards addressing discrimination in the workplace and within unions themselves. While there has been a fair amount of progress in this regard, persistent impediments to equity and uneven responsiveness within and across diversity issues remain. This collection of original essays brings together contributors from a variety of academic backgrounds - women's studies, political science, sociology, industrial relations - and from the labour movement itself to examine union policies, practices, and cultures with respect to diversity issues. The first comprehensive analysis of Canadian labour's response to challenges on gender, race, disability, and sexual orientation issues since the 1980s, the book aims to highlight the structural and cultural developments that have taken place within the labour movement around equality rights, and to provide a forum for debates about the extent to which union democracy has been reshaped as a result of equity activism.

Author : Desmond Morton
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773575547

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Working People, Fifth Edition by Desmond Morton Pdf

From the dock workers of Saint John in 1812 to teenage "crews" at McDonald's today, Canada's trade union movement has a long, exciting history. Working People tells the story of the men and women in the labour movement in Canada and their struggle for security, dignity, and influence in our society. Desmond Morton highlights the great events of labour history - the 1902 meeting that enabled international unions to dominate Canadian unionism for seventy years, the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, and an obscure 1944 order-in-council that became the labour's charter of rights and freedoms. He describes the romantic idealism of the Knights of Labor in the 1880s and looks at "new model" unions that used their members' dues and savings to fight powerful employers. Working People explores the clash between idealists, who fought for socialism, industrial democracy, and equality for women and men, and the realists who wrestled with the human realities of self-interest, prejudice, and fear. Morton tells us about Canadians who deserve to be better known - Phillips Thompson, Helena Gutteridge, Lynn Williams, Huguette Plamondon, Mabel Marlowe, Madeleine Parent, and a hundred others whose struggle to reconcile idealism and reality shaped Canada more than they could ever know.

Author : Stephanie Ross,Larry Savage
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21T00:00:00Z
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781773635040

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Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada, 2nd ed. by Stephanie Ross,Larry Savage Pdf

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the need to re-establish the labour movement’s political capacity to exert collective power in ways that foster greater opportunity and equality for working-class people has taken on a greater sense of urgency. Understanding the strategic political possibilities and challenges facing the Canadian labour movement at this important moment in history is the central concern of this second edition of Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada. With new and revised essays by established and emerging scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this edited collection assesses the past, present and uncertain future of Canadian labour politics in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Bringing together the traditional electoral-based aspects of labour politics with analyses of newer and rediscovered forms of working-class organization and social movement-influenced strategies, which have become increasingly important in the Canadian labour movement, this book seeks to take stock of these new forms of labour politics, understand their emergence and assess their potential impact on the future of labour in Canada.

Author : Gregory S. Kealey
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773565678

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Workers and Canadian History by Gregory S. Kealey Pdf

Kealey provides an overview of the study of workers in Canada as well as in-depth examinations of two of the field's leading scholars, political economist Clare Pentland and Marxist historian Stanley Bréhaut Ryerson. He analyses the development of Canadian labour history in particular and social history in general, and provides detailed empirical studies of the Orange Order in Toronto, printers and their unions, the Knights of Labor, and the Canadian labour revolt of 1919. The collection concludes with three synthetic views of Canadian working-class history focusing on the labour movement, the role of strikes, and attempts by the state to manage class conflict. Workers and Canadian History will be of great interest to students and scholars of Canadian history, labour history, Marxist and socialist theory and history, and political science.

Author : Irving M. Abella
Publisher : Canadian Historical Association
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Labor
ISBN : 0887980287

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The Canadian Labour Movement, 1902-1960 by Irving M. Abella Pdf

Author : Mercedes Steedman,Peter Suschnigg,Dieter K. Buse
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995-05-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1550022237

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Hard Lessons by Mercedes Steedman,Peter Suschnigg,Dieter K. Buse 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 : Committee on Canadian Labour History
Publisher : St. John's, Nlfd. : Committee on Canadian Labour History & New Hogtown Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015015329231

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Lectures in Canadian Labour and Working-class History by Committee on Canadian Labour History Pdf

Author : Janice R. Foley,Patricia L. Baker
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774858984

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Unions, Equity, and the Path to Renewal by Janice R. Foley,Patricia L. Baker Pdf

Trade unions in Canada are losing their traditional support base, and membership numbers could sink to US levels unless unions recapture their power. Unions, Equity, and the Path to Renewal brings together a distinguished group of union activists and equity scholars who trace how traditional union cultures, practices, and structures have eroded solidarity and activism and created an equity deficit in Canadian unions. Informed by a feminist vision of unions as instruments of social justice, the contributors argue that equity within unions is not simply one possible path to union renewal � it is the only way to reposition organized labour as a central institution in workers' lives.