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After the First World War, many Canadians were concerned with the possibility of national regeneration. Progressive-minded politicians, academics, church leaders, and social reformers turned increasingly to the state for solutions. Yet, as significant as the state was in articulating and instituting a new morality, outside actors such as employers were active in pursuing reform agendas as well, taking aim at the welfare of the family, citizen, and nation. Citizen Docker considers this trend, focusing on the Vancouver waterfront as a case in point.After the war, waterfront employers embarked on an ambitious program - welfare capitalism - to ease industrial relations, increase the efficiency of the port, and, ultimately, recondition longshoremen themselves. Andrew Parnaby considers these reforms as a microcosm of the process of accommodation between labour and capital that affected Canadian society as a whole in the 1920s and 1930s. By creating a new sense of entitlement among waterfront workers, one that could not be satisfied by employers during the Great Depression, welfare capitalism played an important role in the cultural transformation that took place after the Second World War.Encompassing labour and gender history, aboriginal studies, and the study of state formation, Citizen Docker examines the deep shift in the aspirations of working people, and the implications that shift had on Canadian society in the interwar years and beyond. --Publisher's description. Contents: Introduction: "A good citizen policy" -- Welfare capitalism on the waterfront -- Securing a square deal -- "The best men that ever worked the lumber" -- Heavy lifting -- "From the fury of democracy, good Lord, deliver us!" -- Conclusion: from square deal to new deal. Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-234) and index.

In the cemeteries of St. Lawrence and several neighbouring towns on the south coast of Newfoundland lie the remains of some 200 workers, killed by the dust and radiation that permeated the area’s fluorspar mines. The Dirt chronicles the many forces that created this disaster and shaped the response to it, including the classic ‘jobs or health’ dilemma, the contentious process of determining the nature and extent of industrial disease and the desire of employers to ‘externalize’ the costs of production onto workers and communities. Central to the account is the persistent effort by workers, women in the community and other activists to gain recognition of health hazards in the mines, their effects on workers and to obtain adequate compensation for victims and their families. --Publisher's description.  Contents: Origins of a disaster: working conditions and labour relations in the 1930s -- Protest and retreat: the war years -- Industry revival, increasing hazards and the recognition of sislicosis, 1946-1956 -- More deadly perils: radiation and cancer -- "The truly ghastly total" and the lack of compensation coverage -- Mounting protest, industry closure, and the legacy of the past.

Self-published memoir of the Sudbury union activist, Homer Seguin (1934-2013), who championed workplace health and safety to reduce injuries and occupational diseases at mines and other industrial sites. Describes his experiences as a negotiator, president of Local 6500 of the United Steelworkers, and as a USW representative at Elliot Lake, Ontario. Also chronicles the rise of the labour movement in Sudbury and the bitter inter-union battle in the early 1960s between Mine Mill Local 598 and the Steelworkers over the right to represent 20,000 Inco workers.

The history of the Jewish community in Canada says as much about the development of the nation as it does about the Jewish people. Spurred on by upheavals in Eastern Europe in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, many Jews immigrated to the Dominion of Canada, which was then considered little more than a British satellite state. Over the ensuing decades, as the Canadian Jewish identity was forged, Canada underwent the transformative experience of separating from Britain and distinguishing itself from the United States. In this light, the Canadian Jewish identity was formulated within the parameters of the emerging Canadian national personality." "Canada's Jews is an account of this remarkable story as told by one of the leading authors and historians on the Jewish legacy in Canada. Drawing on his previous work on the subject, Gerald Tulchinsky describes the struggle against antisemitism and the search for a livelihood among the Jewish community. He demonstrates that, far from being a fragment of the Old World, Canadian Jewry grew from a tiny group of transplanted Europeans to a fully articulated, diversified, and dynamic national group that defined itself as Canadian while expressing itself in the varied political and social contexts of the Dominion. --Publisher's description

Notre étude a un double objectif. Elle vise d’abord à comparer l’évolution des salaires d’entrée des immigrants au Québec par rapport à l’Ontario et à la Colombie-Britannique. Ensemble, ces trois provinces ont accueilli 89,5 % des immigrants arrivés au Canada au cours des années 1990 (Statistique Canada 2003). Ensuite, notre analyse s’emploie à expliquer les changements observés à cet égard dans chacune des trois provinces en considérant notamment le rôle des trois facteurs relevés dans la littérature, à savoir la région d’origine et les compétences linguistiques, le rendement de l’expérience acquise à l’étranger et le cycle économique. -- Introduction

Dans la soirée du samedi 10 avril 1734, Montréal brûle. L'esclave Marie-Joseph- Angélique est traduite devant la justice et accusée d'avoir mis le feu. Soumise à la question extraordinaire, forme de torture atroce pendant laquelle on brise les os des jambes, elle craque et avoue avoir commis cet incendie criminel. Puis, elle est pendue. Angélique entre dans l'histoire canadienne en tant que criminelle. Cependant, son procès nous offre une occasion unique de raconter sa vie d'esclave, une vie dont on n'aurait pas entendu parler autrement. Afua Cooper fait revivre brillamment un chapitre méconnu de l'histoire du Canada, celui d'une Noire rebelle d'origine portugaise qui a cherché à briser ses chaînes. En nous présentant le vécu de cette jeune femme, elle met en lumière ce qui l'a sans doute poussée à commettre pareil crime. Par le fait même, elle détruit le mythe d'un Canada considéré comme un paradis pour les Noirs ayant échappé à l'esclavagisme des États-Unis. L'histoire d'Angélique est le plus ancien récit à propos de l'esclavage dans le Nouveau Monde. En lui consacrant cet ouvrage, Afua Cooper apporte une importante contribution à l'historiographie canadienne et met en perspective l'esclavage accepté légalement et culturellement au Canada. --Publisher's description

Recounting the cuts to freedom of association and the collective bargaining process across Canada since the 1980s, this study challenges the notion that Canada is an international champion of human rights. With documentation on the assaults to the rights of Canadian workers, this text considers the ways governments intervene to stop the collective bargaining process and evaluates topics such as the history of collective bargaining in Canada, the role of the International Labor Office, and the future hope of restoring rights and fairness to labor laws. --Publisher's description

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. --Publisher's description

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 era: the companies and the unions. Drawing on theories of the labour process, Fordism, and discursive subjectivity, Hak relates daily routines of production and profit-making to broader forces of unionism, business ideology, ecological protest, technological change, and corporate concentration. The struggle of the small-business sector to survive in the face of corporate growth, the history of the industry on the Coast and in the Interior, the transformations in capital-labour relations during the period, government forest policy, and the forest industry’s encounter with the emerging environmental movement are all considered in this eloquent analysis. With its critical historical perspective, Capital and Labour in the British Columbia Forest Industry will be essential reading for anyone interested in the business, natural resource, political, social, and labour history of the province. --Publisher's description

This multidisciplinary volume brings together scholars and activists to examine expressions of racism in contemporary policy areas, including education, labour, immigration, media, and urban planning. While anti-racist struggles during the twentieth century were largely pitched against overt forms of racism (e.g., pogroms, genocide, segregation, apartheid, and 'ethnic cleansing'), it has become increasingly apparent that there are other, less visible, forms of racism. These subtler incarnations are of special interest to the contributors. The intent of Race, Racialization, and Antiracism in Canada and Beyond is to probe systemic forms of racism, as well as to suggest strategies for addressing them. The collection is organized by themes pertinent to political and social expressions of racism in Canada and the wider world, such as the state and its mediation of race, education and the perpetuation of racist marginalization, and the role of the media. The contributors argue that, in order to effectively combat racism, various methodological approaches are required, approaches that are reflective of the diversity of the world we seek to understand. -- Publisher's description. Contents: Introduction / Audrey Kobayashi and Genevieve Fuji Johnson -- Negotiating school: marginalized students' participation in their education process / Carl E. James -- Multicultural education: teacher candidates speak out / Donatille Mujawamariya -- The sky didn't fall: organizing to combat racism in the workplace -- the case of the alliance for employment equity / Abigail B. Bakan and Audrey Kobayashi -- Employment conditions of racial minorities in Canada: how bad is the problem of discrimination? / Mohammed A. Al-Waqfi and Harish C. Jain -- Immigrant women's activism: the past thirty-five years / Tania Das Gupta -- Critical discourse analysis: a powerful but flawed tool? / Frances Henry and Carol Tator -- Special plus and special negative: the conflict between perceptions and applications of 'special status' in Canada / Howard Ramos -- Who belongs? Expoloring race and racialization in Canada / Leanne Taylor, Carl E. James, and Roger Saul -- The racialization of space: producng surrey / Gurpreet Singh Johal -- Raceless states / David Theo Goldberg -- Multi-identifications and transformations: reaching beyond racial and ethnic reductionisms / Philomena Essed.

Deindustrialization is not simply an economic process; it is also a social and cultural phenomenon. The rusting detritus of our industrial past — the wrecked halls of factories, abandoned machinery too large to remove, and now useless infrastructures — has for decades been a part of the North American landscape. Through a unique blend of oral history, photographs, and interpretive essays, [this book] investigates this fascinating terrain and the phenomenon of its loss and rediscovery. --Publisher's description. Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-163) and index. "Oral history interviews cited": p. 164. Contents: Industrial demolition and the meaning of economic change in North America -- "Take only pictures and leave only footprints": urban exploration and the aesthetics of deindustrialization -- From cradle to grave: the politics of memory in Youngstown, Ohio -- Out of place: the plant shutdown stories of Sturgeon Falls (Ontario) paperworkers -- Gabriel's Detroit -- Deindustrial fragments -- King coal : the coal counties of West Virginia -- A vanishing landmark: Allied Paper in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Makes it easier to understand the complex and sometimes controversial field of industrial relations. How? Its unique process-oriented approach gives you a clear road map by illustrating how and why unions are formed, and introduces you to the Canadian industrial relations system and the forces that shape it. --Publisher's description

An illuminating study of how gender and work intersect among the rural clergy. For rural clergy, the lines between private life and professional life can blur. Their offices are often in their homes, parishioners are also neighbours, and professional duties are intertwined with emotional caregiving and volunteer activity. In a society that defines work as paid, public, and intellectual the ambiguity inherent in the life of the rural clergy poses unique challenges. Muriel Mellow considers how men and women in this occupational group conceptualize "work" in the context of their unique circumstances and shows how their experience raises questions for feminist theories of work. Based on interviews with forty rural Protestant clergy, Mellow argues that male and female clergy challenge gendered definitions of work by focusing on obligation, context, visibility, and time. She also considers how clergy's work is shaped by the rural setting, arguing that we must consider how work is "placed" as well as gendered. --Publisher's description

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. -- Publisher's description. Contents: Working people -- Getting organized -- International ideas -- Political movement -- Labour reformers -- Hinterland labour -- Trades and labour -- Gompers's shadow -- Business, labour, and governments -- Labour radicals -- Labour and the first World War -- Western revolt -- Unroaring twenties -- Surviving the depression -- Industrial unionism -- Fighting Hitler and management -- "People coming into their own" -- No falling back -- Struggle for allegiance -- Merger movement -- Times of frustration -- Prosperity and discontent -- Public Interest, Public Service -- Justice and nationalism -- Quebec and the common front -- Scapegoat for inflation -- Recession and hard times -- Levelling the playing field -- Struggling to the millennium -- Millennial achievements -- Graphs: Changes in the labour movement.

Confrontation, Struggle and Transformation is the story of working women and men in the St. Catharines area from the mid-1800s to the present. The study explores the labour movement's fight to survive and thrive in the Niagara region. Thanks to extensive quotations from interviews, archival sources and local newspapers, the story unfolds, in part, through the voices of the people themselves: workers who fought for unions, community members who supported them and employers who opposed them. --Publisher's description

The Canadian labour movement has undergone several fundamental changes 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 conceptions of labour, charting the effort made towards establishing a more inclusive vision of labour in Canada. The study concludes that the Canadian labour movement has seen a fair amount of progress in this regard, though it still faces persistent impediments to equity and suffers from an uneven responsiveness within and across diversity issues. This collection of original essays brings together contributors from a variety of backgrounds womens studies, political science, sociology, industrial relations, and the labour movement itself. They provide detailed analyses of significant changes in union policies, practices, and cultures as viewed through different disciplinary lenses. With reference to gender, race, disability, and sexuality, the volume assesses the status of labour diversity in Canada and suggests what still needs to be done to advance the equity project. --Publisher's description. --Publisher's description. Contents: Looking back: A brief history of everything / Julie White -- Bargaining against the past: Fair pay, union practice, and the gender pay gap / Anne Forrest -- Union response to pay equity: A cautionary tale / Judy Haiven -- Labour's collective bargaining records on women's and family issues / Karen Bentham -- We are family: Labour responds to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender workers / Gerald Hunt and Jonathan Eaton -- Broadening the labour movement's disability agenda / David Rayside and Fraser Valentine -- Racism and the labour movement / Tania Das Gupta -- Equity, diversity, and Canadian labour: A comparative perspective / David Rayside. Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-282).

[D]escribes the labour and employment law governing employees of Parliament, employees of government agencies, members of the RCMP, and most direct employees of the government (excluding members of the Canadian armed forces, judges, and employees of Crown corporations). Specifically, the book deals with the Public Service Labour Relations Act and the Public Service Employment Act. It also provides the leading cases and, where appropriate, a representative sample of decisions to explain or provide examples of particular points. The legal regime of the federal public service has undergone significant change in the past three years, and no other book addresses these significant changes. Part I of this book provides an overview of federal public service labour and employment law. Part II considers the normal labour law topics as they apply to direct employees of the government and employees of government agencies. Essentially, Part II of this book is about Part I of the Public Service Labour Relations Act. Part III concerns the terms and conditions of employment for both unionized and non-unionized employees — essentially, Part II of the Public Service Labour Relations Act. Part IV involves the legal regulation of the employment relationship in the federal public service — namely, the process for appointment to and within the federal public service. Part V of considers Crown servants — specifically RCMP members and parliamentary employees — who are not considered federal public servants for the purposes of the Public Service Labour Relations Act. Part VI considers the legal regulation of superannuation (pensions) for Crown servants and the role that courts play in the regulation of federal public service labour and employment law. --Publisher's description

This interdisciplinary volume offers a powerful critique of how social structures and relations as well as ideologies shape workplaces, labour markets, and households in contemporary Canada. Contributors dissect recent transformations in work and expose the uncertainty, insecurity, and instability that increasingly characterize both paid and unpaid work. Using a progressive approach to political economy, contributors propose alternative policies and practices that might secure more decent livelihoods for workers and their families. -- Publisher's description

[The author] reports on his research into the failure of Canadian governments to protect and promote the collective bargaining rights of both unionized and non-unionized workers in this country. Far from honouring their solemn commitments to the UN’s International Labour Organization, our governments have blatantly and repeatedly violated them. Their many strike-breaking actions and arbitrarily imposed contract settlements have been condemned by the ILO, which has cited Canada as one of the world’s worst violators of basic labour rights. In exposing the appalling anti-labour record of our federal and provincial governments, Adams includes his exchange of correspondence with Canada’s labour ministries on their dismal labour-law policies. --Publisher's summary Contents: Why collective bargaining is a human right -- Industrial democracy achieved in Europe, thwarted in Canada -- Exclusive-agent certification, quagmire on the road to industrial democracy? -- Alternatives to exclusive-agent certification -- Why unions rely on certification -- How Canadian practice legitimizes employer opposition in collective bargaining -- Constitutional, non-statutory collective representation: the SASSEA and McMaster examples -- Recent developments and their implications for labour policy -- What our governments ought to be doing -- What our governments are actually doing --The union response -- The NUPGE/UFCW campaign. Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-152);

How the unaccounted costs of neo-liberal policies fall on Canadian women. Using a feminist political economy approach, contributors document the impact of current socio-economic policies on states, markets, households, and communities. Relying on impressive empirical research, they argue that women bear the costs of and responsibility for care-giving and show that the theoretical framework provided by feminist analyses of social reproduction not only corrects the gender-blindness of most economic theories but suggests an alternative that places care-giving at its centre. In this illuminating study, they challenge feminist scholars to re-engage with materialism and political economy to engage with feminism. --Publisher's description. Contents: Introduction: Social Reproduction and Feminist Political Economy / Kate Bezanson and Meg Luxton (pages 3-10) -- Feminist Political Economy in Canada and the Politics of Social Reproduction / Meg Luxton (pages 11-44) -- Social Reproduction and Canadian Federalism / Barbara Cameron (pages 45-74) -- Whose Social Reproduction? Transnational Motherhood and Challenges to Feminist Political Economy / Sedef Arat-Koç (pages 75-92) -- Bargaining for Collective Responsibility for Social Reproduction / Alice De Wolff (pages 93-116) -- Privatization: A Strategy for Eliminating Pay Equity in Health Care / Marjorie Griffin Cohen and Marcy Cohen (pages 117-144) -- Crisis Tendencies in Social Reproduction: The Case of Ontario’s Early Years Plan / Leah F. Vosko (pages 145-172) -- The Neo-liberal State and Social Reproduction: Gender and Household Insecurity in the Late 1990s / Kate Bezanson (pages 173-214) -- Someone to Watch over You: Gender, Class, and Social Reproduction / Susan Braedley (pages 215-230) -- Motherhood as a Class Act: The Many Ways in Which “Intensive Mothering” Is Entangled with Social Class / Bonnie Fox (pages 231-262) -- Friends, Neighbours, and Community: A Case Study of the Role of Informal Caregiving in Social Reproduction / Meg Luxton (pages 263-92 ).