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What can those of us committed to the socialist project, to laying the groundwork for a viable mass, democratic, but revolutionary party learn from what our fathers and forefathers did? Serious inquiry into the history of the Canadian socialist movement will help us not only to learn from the mistakes of the past, but also to reclaim what is valuable from this history. --Introduction
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This article reviews the book, "Working-Class Experience: The Rise and Reconstitution of Canadian Labour, 1800-1980", by Bryan D. Palmer.
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Part 1 is a revised version of From Consent to Coercion, and Part 2 represents a study of new developments since 1984, including the Supreme Court's crucial ruling that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not protect the right to strike. Contents: Preface to second edition -- 1. Introduction: From consent to coercion -- 2. The era of free collective bargaining -- 3. The turn to coercion: permanent exceptionalism -- 4. The right to strike: freedom of association and the Charter -- 5. The Mulroney record: consolidating the era of coercion -- 6. The consolidation of coercion in the provinces -- 7. The labour movement in the new era -- 8. The social contract: labour, the NDP and beyond -- Appendix I. Legislation and orders suspending the right to strike 1950-1993 -- Appendix II. Legislation amending trade union rights 1982-1993.
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This paper argues that we are witnessing the end of the era of "free collective bargaining" which began with the federal government's war-time order-in-council PC 1003. The era being closed is one in which the state and capital relied, more than before World War II, on obtaining the consent of workers generally, and unions in particular, to participate as subordinate actors in Canada's capitalist democracy. The era ahead marks a return, albeit in quite different conditions, to the state and capital relying more openly on coercion to secure that subordination. This is not to suggest that coercion was absent from the previous era or that it is about to become the only, or even always the dominant, factor in labour relations. Rather it is argued that there has been a change in the form in which coercion and consent are relating to one another, a change significant enough to demand a new era. In conclusion, we speculate on the character of labour relations in the foreseeable future.
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Critiques the British Labour Party's abandonment of its long-standing commitment to "parliamentary socialism" and the electoral platform of the incoming "New Labour" government of Tony Blair. Concludes that new forms of socialist organization are necessary since the path forward does not lie in transforming the Labour Party.
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