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Guarding the gates : the Canadian labour movement and immigration, 1872-1934
A pioneering study of Canadian labour leaders' approach to immigration from the 1870s to the Great Depression.
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Angels of the workplace : women and the construction of gender relations in the Canadian clothing industry, 1890-1940
In this renowned 1997 study of the clothing industry in Canada, Mercedes Steedman examines how the intricate weaving together of the meanings of class, gender, ethnicity, family, and the workplace created a job ghetto for women.
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Angels of the Workplace
In this renowned 1997 study of the clothing industry in Canada, Mercedes Steedman examines how the intricate weaving together of the meanings of class, gender, ethnicity, family, and the workplace created a job ghetto for women.
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The rise and fall of the Toronto Typographical Union, 1832-1972 : a case study of foreign domination
A meeting of twenty-four journeymen printers at the York Hotel in Toronto in 1832 marked the birth of Canada’s earliest and still continuing labour organization. This case study of the printers of Toronto traces the development of the union which began as the Toronto Typographical Society. Through a close examination of this Canadian local’s relations with its eventual parent organization in the US, Zerker reveals the ‘domination’ and brings into question the advantages of an international connection.
In 1866, under pressure from the American federation of printing unions, the Toronto body became an affiliate of the International Typographical Union, thus forming the crucial relationship which, as Zerker shows, came to govern every element of local decision and policy. Though the TTU achieved a pioneer victory in independently leading its members in their struggle for a shorter working day, from 1885 on the ITU directives and programs came to rule the Toronto union, causing enormous losses in membership and industry control.
Zerker cites as examples the ITU program in the 1920s which resulted in a bitter strike which broke the Toronto union’s control of the labour force in the commercial sector; and, more recently, its misdirection of the printers’ strike of the Toronto newspapers in the 1960s which resulted in the expulsion of members from the workplaces that had been the preserve of the organization for nearly a century. Zerker blames the failure to respond effectively to the technology of the computer age on poor TTU management in pre-strike negotiations but, above all, on ITU intransigence, ignorance, and arrogance. In more recent years, after the end of this history, TTU membership has increased substantially and the local has been revitalized under its new leadership; the International, too, shows signs of being on the way to much-awaited reforms.
This history is in many senses a microcosm of the Canadian labour movement and forms an important strand in general cultural history of Toronto.
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Guarding the Gates
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- PART 1: ISSUES AND ARGUMENTS -- 1 Guarding the Gates -- 2 Setting the Stage: Labour, Industry, and Immigration in Canada, 1872-1934 -- PART 2: LABOUR'S ANTI-ASIAN AGITATION -- 3 The Bounds of Unity: Opposition to Chinese Immigration, 1880-87 -- 4 The \"Old Time Question\": The Campaign for Exclusion, 1888-1934 -- PART 3: LABOUR AND ATLANTIC IMMIGRATION -- 5 Superfluous People: Labour's Construction of Immigrants from Europe and the British Isles -- 6 Importing Victims: The Assault on the Commerce of Immigration -- PART 4: IMMIGRATION, IDEOLOGY, AND POLITICS -- 7 Immigration, Joseph Arch, and the Producer Ideology, 1872-79 -- 8 Imported Labour, the Tariff, and Land Reform, 1880-1902 -- 9 Retreat, Corporatism, and Responsible Management, 1903-34 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X.
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Labour Goes to War
This book examines the explosive growth of the CIO in Canada during the Second World War, showing how cultural as well as economic forces were at work in the gritty work of union organizing.
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Capital and labour in the British Columbia forest industry, 1934-74
The history of British Columbia's economy in the twentieth century is inextricably bound to the development of the forest industry.In this comprehensive study, Gordon Hak approaches the forest industry from the perspectives of workers and employers, examining the two main sets of institutions that structured the relationship during the Fordist.
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From the jaws of victory
From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement is the most comprehensive history ever written on the meteoric rise and precipitous decline of the United Farm Workers, the most successful farm labor union in United States history. Based on little-known sources and one-of-a-kind oral histories with many veterans of the farm worker movement, this book revises much of what we know about the UFW. Matt Garcia's gripping account of the expansion of the union's grape boycott reveals how the boycott, which UFW leader Cesar Chavez initially resisted, became the defining feature of the movement and drove the growers to sign labor contracts in 1970. Garcia vividly relates how, as the union expanded and the boycott spread across the United States, Canada, and Europe, Chavez found it more difficult to organize workers and fend off rival unions. Ultimately, the union was a victim of its own success and Chavez's growing instability. From the Jaws of Victory delves deeply into Chavez's attitudes and beliefs, and how they changed over time. Garcia also presents in-depth studies of other leaders in the UFW, including Gilbert Padilla, Marshall Ganz, Dolores Huerta, and Jerry Cohen. He introduces figures such as the co-coordinator of the boycott, Jerry Brown; the undisputed leader of the international boycott, Elaine Elinson; and Harry Kubo, the Japanese American farmer who led a successful campaign against the UFW in the mid-1970s.
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