The Biggest Roll-Back of Worker Rights in Canadian History: The Campbell Government and Labour Market Deregulation in British Columbia
Resource type
Authors/contributors
- Sandborn, Tom (Author)
- Fairney, David (Author)
- Peters, John (Author)
- Peters, John (Editor)
Title
The Biggest Roll-Back of Worker Rights in Canadian History: The Campbell Government and Labour Market Deregulation in British Columbia
Abstract
Analyzes the housing boom, rising inequality, lowering of employment standards, the attack on organized labour and public sector contracts, and the expansion of temporary and/or precarious workers under the the provincial Liberal government of Gordon Campbell (in office, 2001-2011) in British Columbia. Concludes that unions are in a weakened state and that a broader solidarity movement is needed.
Book Title
Boom, Bust and Crisis: Labour, Corporate Power and Politics in Canada
Series
Labour in Canada (Halifax, N.S.)
Series Number
2
Date
2012
Publisher
Fernwood
Place
Halifax
Pages
104-124
ISBN
9781552665
Language
English
Call Number
331.0971/09051
Notes
Abstract by Desmond Maley.
Citation
Sandborn, T., Fairney, D., & Peters, J. (2012). The Biggest Roll-Back of Worker Rights in Canadian History: The Campbell Government and Labour Market Deregulation in British Columbia. In J. Peters (Ed.), Boom, Bust and Crisis: Labour, Corporate Power and Politics in Canada (pp. 104–124). Fernwood. https://archive.org/details/boombustcrisisla0000unse/page/104/mode/2up
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