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[E]xplores the complex ways in which temporariness is being institutionalized as a condition of life for a growing number of people worldwide. The collection emphasizes contemporary developments, but also provides historical context on nation-state membership as the fundamental means for accessing rights in an era of expanding temporariness - in recognition of why pathways to permanence remain so compelling. Through empirical and theoretical analysis, contributors explore various dimensions of temporariness, especially as it relates to the legal status of migrants and refugees, to the spread of precarious employment, and to limitations on social rights. While the focus is on Canada, a number of chapters investigate and contrast developments in Canada with those in Europe as well as Australia and the United States. Together, these essays reveal changing and enduring temporariness at local, regional, national, transnational, and global levels, and in different domains, such as health care, language programs, and security. The question at the heart of this collection is whether temporariness can be liberated from current constraints. While not denying the desirability of permanence for migrants and labourers, "Liberating Temporariness?" presents alternative possibilities of security and liberation. --Publisher's description, Contents: Introduction: Liberating Temporariness? Imagining Alternatives to Permanence as a Pathway for Social Inclusion  / Robert Latham, Leah F. Vosko, Valerie Preston, and Melisa Bretón. Part 1: Security, Temporary Status, and Rights. Rethinking Canadian Citizenship: The Politics of Social Exclusion in the Age of Security and Suppression / Yasmeen Abu-Laban -- Permanent Patriots and Temporary Predators? Post-9/11 Institutionalization of the Arab/Orientalized “Other” in the United States and the Contributions of Arendt and Said / Abigail B. Bakan -- Indefinitely Pending: Security Certificates and Permanent Temporariness / Mike Larsen. Part 2: International Organizations and Transnational Dynamics of Temporary Work. Managed Migration and the Temporary Labour Fix / Christina Gabriel -- Institutionalizing Temporary Labour Migration in Europe: Creating an “In-between”’ Migration Status / Tesseltje de Lange and Sarah van Walsu -- The Permanence of Temporary Labour Mobility: Migrant Worker Programs across Australia, Canada, and New Zealand / Emily Gilbert. Part 3: Temporary Status, Social Welfare, and Marginalization. Brain Circulation or Precarious Labour? Conceptualizing Temporariness in the United Kingdom’s National Health Service / Parvati Raghuram -- Language Training and Labour Market Integration for Newcomers to Canada / Eve Haque -- Resituating Temporariness as the Precarity and Conditionality of Non-citizenship / Luin Goldring -- Constructing and “Liberating” Temporariness in the Canadian Non-profit Sector: Neoliberalism and Non-profit Service Providers / John Shields. Part 4: (Re)Framing Temporariness. Mexican Migrant Transnationalism and Imaginaries of Temporary/Permanent Belonging / Marianne H. Marchand -- Temporariness: Other than Permanence, and in the Lives of People - Always… / Deepa Rajkumar -- Temporal Orders, Re-collective Justice, and the Making of Untimely States / Robert Latham.

La surqualification, définie comme la situation qui caractérise un individu dont le niveau de formation dépasse celui qui est normalement requis pour l’emploi occupé, a subi une forte tendance à la hausse au cours des vingt dernières années. Au Québec et au Canada, elle touche un tiers des travailleurs, surtout les plus jeunes. Ce phénomène, qui témoigne de l’incapacité du marché du travail à offrir à un grand nombre de personnes des emplois qui correspondent à leurs qualifications, est devenu pour tous les acteurs de la vie économique et sociale un enjeu de premier ordre. Ce livre présente un ensemble d’études récentes sur la surqualification. Son objectif est de mesurer l’étendue du phénomène du point de vue statistique et de mettre en relief les facteurs qui interviennent dans sa genèse et son développement. L’ouvrage évalue plusieurs approches et modèles analytiques et présente des résultats de recherches qui utilisent diverses bases de données. Il offre un portrait détaillé de la surqualification au Québec et au Canada. De manière plus fondamentale, il soulève la question de la valeur des diplômes sur le marché du travail et suggère des pistes de réflexion pour atteindre l’adéquation entre la formation de la main-d’œuvre et le profil des emplois. --Publisher's description

Dreams of steady employment in the mining sector led thousands of Ukrainian immigrants to northern Ontario in the early 1900s. As a child, historian Stacey Zembrzycki listened to her baba’s stories about Sudbury’s small but polarized community and what it was like growing up ethnic during the Depression. According to Baba grew out of those stories, out of a granddaughter’s desire to capture the experiences of her grandparents’ generation on paper. Eighty-two interviews conducted by Stacey and her grandmother, Olga, laid the groundwork for this insightful and deeply personal social history of one of Canada’s most colourful ethnic communities. The interview process also brought to light the challenges of doing collaborative oral history with community members, particularly as Stacey lost authority to her baba, wrestled it back, and eventually came to share it, and as interviewees met questions with nostalgic reminiscences, subversive humour, or impenetrable silence. By providing a realistic glimpse into the hard work that goes into making communities partners in oral history research, this book provides a new paradigm for studying the politics of memory, one that recognizes that people are not passive recipients of their histories but rather counter and create narratives about the past by invoking alternative ways of remembering. --Publisher's description

From its inception in 1966, the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) has grown to employ approximately 20,000 workers annually, the majority from Mexico. The program has been hailed as a model that alleviates human rights concerns because, under contract, SAWP workers travel legally, receive health benefits, contribute to pensions, are represented by Canadian consular officials, and rate the program favorably. Tomorrow We?re All Going to the Harvest takes us behind the ideology and examines the daily lives of SAWP workers from Tlaxcala, Mexico (one of the leading sending states), observing the great personal and family price paid in order to experience a temporary rise in a standard of living. The book also observes the disparities of a gutted Mexican countryside versus the flourishing agriculture in Canada, where farm labor demand remains high. Drawn from extensive surveys and nearly two hundred interviews, ethnographic work in Ontario (destination of over 77 percent of migrants in the author?s sample), and quantitative data, this is much more than a case study; it situates the Tlaxcala-Canada exchange within the broader issues of migration, economics, and cultural currents. Bringing to light the historical genesis of ?complementary? labor markets and the contradictory positioning of Mexican government representatives, Leigh Binford also explores the language barriers and nonexistent worker networks in Canada, as well as the physical realities of the work itself, making this book a complete portrait of a provocative segment of migrant labor. --Publisher's description

Building More Effective Labour-Management Relationships combines valuable insights into new approaches to relationship-building and collective bargaining with unique knowledge and concrete lessons garnered from some of the foremost industrial relations practitioners in Canada. Contributors include Warren "Smokey" Thomas (president, OPSEU), Buzz Hargrove (former president, CAW), Warren Edmondson (former ADM Labour, Government of Canada, and chair of the CLRB), George Smith (former VP at CP Rail and CBC/Radio Canada), David Logan, (ADM, Government of Ontario) Glenda Fisk (Queen's University), Richard Chaykowski (Queen's University), Robert Hickey (Queen's University). -- Publisher's description. Contents: Fostering Innovation and Cooperation in Employee Relations in the Ontario Public Service  / Warren "Smokey" Thomas -- An Introduction and Context Advancing Labour-Management Relationships and Cooperation / David Logan -- Systemic Pressures on Ontario Public Sector Industrial Relations / Richard P. Chaykowski, Robert S. Hickey --  Experiences in Collective Bargaining and the Labour-Management Relationship Remaking the Union-Management Relationship between the CBC and Canadian Media Guild: "We used to walk ... Now we talk" / Richard P. Chaykowski --  Reflections on Creating More Effective Labour Relations / George C.B. Smith Dan Oldfield -- Interest-Based, Cooperative Approaches to Negotiations and Labour Relations: What Works and What Does Not / Buzz Hargrove.

Revealing how Canada's first Prime Minister used a policy of starvation against Indigenous people to clear the way for settlement, the multiple award-winning Clearing the Plains sparked widespread debate about genocide in Canada. In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics-the politics of ethnocide-played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of Indigenous people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald's "National Dream." It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well-being between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations, and the lingering racism and misunderstanding that permeates the national consciousness to this day. --Publisher's description

The Great Recession was the largest crisis of capitalism since the Great Depression and the largest crisis in neoliberalism to date, sending shockwaves throughout the global economy. States scrambled to right the sinking capitalist ship in order to maintain high levels of accumulation. In Canada, as in so many other countries, the state introduced austerity measures aimed at organized labour and the broader working class. This volume explores the political economy of The Great Recession in Canada, and focuses on how labour has responded to the crisis, neoliberalism, and austerity measures. --Publisher's description. Contents: 1. From Crisis To Austerity: An Introduction / Tim Fowler -- 2. The Canadian State and the Crisis: Theoretical and Historical Context / Stephen McBride & Heather Whiteside -- 3. From the Great Recession of 2008-2009 to Fiscal Austerity: The Role of Inequality / Akhter Faroque and Brian K. MacLean  -- 4. Neoliberalism, Capitalist Crisis, and Continuing Austerity in the Ontario State / Tim Fowler  -- 5. Collective Bargaining in a Time of Austerity: Public-Sector Unions and the University Sector in Ontario / Mathew Nelson & James Meades --  6. "We Will Fight This Crisis": Auto Workers Resist an Industrial Meltdown/ Bill Murnighan & Jim Stanford -- 7. The Decline of the Labour Movement: A Socialist Perspective / Murray E.G. Smith & Jonah Butovsky -- 8. Labour’s Response to the Crisis and the Future of Working-Class Politics / David Camfield.

Established in 1913, the New Brunswick Federation of Labour is the second oldest provincial federation of labour in Canada. Its history began in early campaigns for workers’ compensation and union recognition and continues today in the latest battles to defend social standards, secure employment, and union rights. Active initially in the port city of Saint John and the railway centre of Moncton, the federation soon expanded to include workers in the mines and mills of the north, taking up the causes of public employees and women workers and confronting the realities of life and work in a bilingual society. A pioneering study, written in clear and forceful prose, this is the untold story of provincial labour solidarities that succeeded in overcoming divisions and defeats to raise the status of working men and women within New Brunswick society. Drawing on archives, newspapers, and workers’ own descriptions of their experiences, Frank makes an original contribution to our understanding of the political, economic, and social development of the province. In so doing, he helps meet the need for an informed public awareness of the history of workers and unions in all parts of Canada.

La Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Nouveau-Brunswick, fondée en 1913, est la deuxième plus ancienne fédération provinciale du travail au Canada. Son histoire remonte aux premières campagnes en faveur de l’indemnisation des accidents du travail et de la reconnaissance syndicale, et elle se poursuit dans les plus récentes luttes visant à défendre les normes sociales et à protéger les emplois et les droits syndicaux. La Fédération a vu le jour dans la ville portuaire de Saint John et le centre ferroviaire de Moncton, puis elle s’est étendue aux travailleurs des mines et des usines du nord de la province, soutenant la cause des employés du secteur public et des travailleuses, reflétant les réalités de la vie et du travail dans une société bilingue. Puisant dans les archives, les journaux et les expériences des travailleurs et des travailleuses, voici l’histoire inédite de solidarités syndicales provinciales qui ont surmonté les divisions et les revers afin de rehausser le statut des travailleurs et des travailleuses dans la société néo-brunswickoise. Par cette étude pionnière rédigée dans un style clair et puissant, Frank apporte une contribution originale à la compréhension de l’évolution politique, économique et sociale de la province, et il aide à combler le besoin d’éclairer la connaissance que le public a de l’histoire des travailleurs et des syndicats de toutes les régions du Canada. --Publisher's description

Most examinations of non-citizens in Canada focus on immigrants, people who are citizens-in-waiting, or specific categories of temporary, vulnerable workers. In contrast, Producing and Negotiating Non-Citizenship considers a range of people whose pathway to citizenship is uncertain or non-existent. This includes migrant workers, students, refugee claimants, and people with expired permits, all of whom have limited formal rights to employment, housing, education, and health services. -- Publisher's description.  Contents: The conditionality of legal status and rights: conceptualizing precarious non-citizenship in Canada / Luin Goldring and Patricia Landolt -- The museum of illegal immigration: historical perspectives on the production of non-citizens and challenges to immigration controls / Cynthia Wright -- The shifting landscape of contemporary Canadian immigration policy: the rise of temporary migration and employer-driven immigration / Salimah Valiani -- The Canadian Temporary Foreign Worker Program: regulations, practices, and protection gaps / Delphine Nakache -- "This is my life": youth negotiating legality and belonging in Toronto / Julie Young -- Constructing coping strategies: migrants seeking stability in social networks / Katherine Brasch -- The cost of invisibility: the psychosocial impact of falling out of status / Samia Saad -- The social production of non-citizenship: the consequences of intersecting trajectories of precarious legal status and precarious work / Patricia Landolt and Luin Goldring -- Pathways to precarity: structural vulnerabilities and lived consequences for migrant farmworkers in Canada / Janet McLaughlin and Jenna Hennebry -- Precarious immigration status and precarious housing pathways: refugee claimant homelessness in Toronto and Vancouver / Priya Kisoon -- Negotiating the boundaries of membership: health care providers, access to social goods, and immigration status / Paloma E. Villegas -- "People's priorities change when their status changes": negotiating the conditionality of social rights in service delivery to migrant women / Rupaleem Bhuyan -- Getting to "don't ask don't tell" at the Toronto District School Board: mapping the competing discourses of rights and membership / Francisco Villegas -- No one is illegal movements in Canada and the negotiation of counter-national and anti-colonial struggles from within the nation-state / Craig Fortier -- From access to empowerment: the Committee for Accessible AIDS Treatment and its work with people living with HIV-AIDS and precarious status / Alan Li -- Confidentiality and "risky" research: negotiating competing notions of risk in a Canadian university context / Julie Young and Judith K. Bernhard.

This comic was originally produced for B.C. Lumbermen. It first appeared in a war-time comic strip. Whether readers are interested in logging history, a good yarn or folk art, they will be enthralled by Now You're Logging, British Columbia's first graphic novel and a enduring West Coast classic, published in celebration of what would have been Bus Griffiths' 100th birthday. Now You're Logging is the story of Al and Red, who go to work in a small West Coast logging show during the dirty thirties. As they learn their trades, the reader is treated to an amazingly detailed view of the camp's varied operations—falling and bucking timber by hand, topping and rigging of spar trees, moving steam donkeys and making up log booms, plus all the colourful characters, camaraderie, romance and life-threatening exploits of a BC adventure story. --Publisher's description

This comprehensive history of the left in British Columbia from the late nineteenth century to the present explores the successes and failures of individuals and organizations striving to make a better world. Nineteenth-century coal miners and carpenters; Wobblies, Single Taxers, and communists; worker militancy in two world wars; the New Democratic Party; the Squamish Five; the Solidarity movement of 1983; and the Occupy movement of 2011 are all part of an historical provincial left that is notable for its breadth and dynamism. Moreover, the political and union initiatives of the traditional left are seen in conjunction with broader movements, including the struggles for women's suffrage and equality, human rights, Canadian nationalist visions, racial equality, and environmental health. Ginger Goodwin and Dave Barrett (as well as WAC Bennett and Gordon Campbell) are present, as are reformist liberals and green activists. Drawing on extensive published scholarship and primary newspaper sources, Dr. Hak's thorough examination of the British Columbia experience offers an historical context for understanding the contemporary left and a framework for considering future alternatives.

Today, hazardous work kills 2.3 million people each year and injures millions more. Among the most compelling yet controversial forms of legal protection for workers is the right to refuse unsafe work. The rise of globalization, precarious work, neoliberal politics, attacks on unions, and the idea of individual employment rights have challenged the protection of occupational health and safety for workers worldwide. This book presents the protection of refusal rights as a moral and a human rights question. The book finds that the protection of the right to refuse unsafe work, as constituted under international labor standards, is a failure and calls for a reexamination of worker health and safety policy from the ground up. The current model of protection follows an individual employment rights framework, which fails to protect workers against the inherent social inequalities within the employment relationship. To adequately protect the right to refuse as a human right, both in North America and around the world, the book argues that a broader protection must be granted under a freedom of association framework.

In the late 1970s, feminist historians urged us to “rethink” Canada by placing women’s perspectives and experiences at the centre of historical analysis. Forty years later, feminism continues to inform history writing in Canada and has inspired historians to look beyond the nation and adopt a more global perspective. This exciting new volume of original essays opens with a discussion of the debates, themes, and methodological approaches that have preoccupied women’s and gender historians across Canada over the past twenty years. The chapters that follow showcase the work of new and established scholars who draw on the insights of critical race theory, postcolonial theory, and transnational history to re-examine familiar topics such as biography and oral history, paid and unpaid work, marriage and family, and women’s political action. Whether they focus on the marriage of Governor James Douglas and his Metis wife, Amelia; representations of saleswomen in department store catalogues; or the careers of professional women such as international child activist Charlotte Whitton and Quebec social work professors at Laval University, the contributors demonstrate the continued relevance – and growth – of history informed by feminist perspectives, and they open a much-needed dialogue between francophone and anglophone historians in Canada.-- Publisher's description

Fernand Daoust est surtout connu pour avoir été un dirigeant central de la Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec (FTQ) pendant vingt-quatre ans. Or, cela est le fruit d'un véritable parcours du combattant dans le mouvement ouvrier. Le syndicaliste est né en 1926 dans des conditions très modestes et élevé dans une famille monoparentale. Sa curiosité, sa soif de connaissance et sa détermination l'ont entraîné bien au-delà des activités auxquelles ses origines le destinaient. Dans cette première partie de sa biographie, qui couvre les années 1926-1964, nous l'accompagnons dans le Montréal de la grande dépression, nous assistons à ses premiers engagements nationalistes pendant la crise de la conscription, à sa découverte des idéologies progressistes et à son entrée dans le mouvement syndical, malgré les dures conditions imposées aux syndicalistes par le régime Duplessis. Nous le voyons découvrir la nécessité de l'action politique et pressentons le futur dirigeant syndical. Accédant aux études universitaires à force de courage et de persévérance, son horizon intellectuel s'élargit. C'est tout naturellement qu'il choisit le syndicalisme pour y développer et approfondir son engagement social et politique. En faisant sienne l'idéologie socialiste, qui inspire les courants les plus dynamiques du syndicalisme québécois, le jeune syndicaliste ne renie cependant pas ses racines. Son socialisme s'incarne dans une nation spécifique, celle du Québec. Il n'était pas d'accord avec une majorité de syndicalistes de gauche de l'époque, qui qualifiaient de rétrogrades les aspirations nationales québécoises. Au contact des idées de gauche, le nationalisme de droite, dans lequel il avait baigné à l'adolescence et auquel il n'avait jamais totalement adhéré, a fait place à un nationalisme progressiste, précurseur de celui qu'allait épouser une proportion grandissante de la population québécoise.

Extensively revised throughout and including a chapter of new material, Rebel Life chronicles the life of labour organizer, revolutionary, anarchist and labour spy Robert Gosden. Mark Leier's revisions incorporate new information about Gosden's career that has come to light since the first edition was published in 1999. Canada's west coast was rife with upheaval in the second and third decades of the twentieth century. At the centre of the turmoil is Robert Gosden, migrant labourer turned radical activistヨturned police spy. In 1913, he publicly recommends assassinating Premier Richard McBride to resolve theminers' strike. By 1919, he is urging Prime Minister Robert Borden to "disappear" key labour radicals to quelch rising discontent. What happened?Rebel Life plumbs the enigma that was Gosden, but it is much more: an introduction to BC labour history: a trove of rarely seen archival photograph, and sidebars rich with historical arcana; and, with its chapter describing the research that unearthed Gosden's story, Rebel Life is a rich resource for instructors, students, and trade unionists alike.

Climate change is having an increasingly significant impact on work in Canada, and the effect climate change has, and will continue to have, on work concerns many Canadians. However, this fact has not been seriously considered either in academic circles, in the labour movement nor especially by the Canadian government. Climate@Work addresses this deficit by systematically tackling the question of the impact of climate change on work and employment and by analyzing Canada’s conservative silence towards climate change and the Canadian government’s refusal to take it seriously.--Publisher's description. Contents: Introduction. Section 1: Contexts.Changing Patterns in the Literature of Climate Change and Canadian Work: The Research of Academics, Government and Social Actors / Elizabeth Perry -- Climate, Work and Labour: the International Context / Carla Lipsig-Mummé --International Trade Agreements and the Ontario Green Energy Act: Opportunities and Obstacles / Stephen McBride & John Shields. Section 2: Sectors. The Impact of Climate Change on Employment and Skills Requirements in the Construction Industry / John O’Grady -- Climate Change and Labour in the Energy Sector / Marjorie Griffin Cohen & John Calvert -- The Transportation Equipment Industry / John Holmes, with Austin Hracs -- The Forestry Industry / John Holmes -- Tourism, Climate Change and the Missing Worker: Uneven Impacts, Institutions and Response / Steven Tufts -- Climate Change and Work and Employment in the Canadian Postal and Courier Sector / Meg Gingrich, Sarah Ryan & Geoff Bickerton. Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-196).

This book seeks to explain unionization to my generation; to my friends who distrust civil society organizations as much as they distrust government; to my unemployed friends who are living from contract to contract and who would kill for a stable, unionized job; for the workers who have never had the benefit of being represented when facing injustice at work; for the workers who would rather not think of what would happen if they were injured on the job. It’s a reminder to unionized folks that many of the truths that they take for granted are not obvious to others and that the labour movement must change how it reaches out to its members, its communities and to non-unionized workers if it hopes to grow. It’s a call to action for activists to share their stories, debunk the existing right-wing, anti-union rhetoric, re-engage in their communities, and build a movement that can defeat neoliberal policies and their political proponents. --From author's introduction. Contents: 1. What is a union? -- 2. Unions: debunking the lies -- 3. Unions: process and progress -- 4. Labour disputes -- 5. Unions, democracy and challenging government -- 6. Neoliberalism: dividing and conquering Canadians -- 7. Neoliberalism's attack on workers and citizens -- 8. The politics of budgeting, scandals and public sector spending -- 9. Profit hoarding, tax evasion and the crreation of useful crises -- 10. Civil unrest and attacks on citizen freedoms -- 11. Toward new ways of organizing.

When dealing with Indigenous women’s history we are conditioned to think about women as private-sphere figures, circumscribed by the home, the reserve, and the community. Moreover, in many ways Indigenous men and women have been cast in static, pre-modern, and one-dimensional identities, and their twentieth century experiences reduced to a singular story of decline and loss. In Indigenous Women, Work, and History, historian Mary Jane Logan McCallum rejects both of these long-standing conventions by presenting case studies of Indigenous domestic servants, hairdressers, community health representatives, and nurses working in “modern Native ways” between 1940 and 1980. Based on a range of sources including the records of the Departments of Indian Affairs and National Health and Welfare, interviews, and print and audio-visual media, McCallum shows how state-run education and placement programs were part of Canada’s larger vision of assimilation and extinguishment of treaty obligations. Conversely, she also shows how Indigenous women link these same programs to their social and cultural responsibilities of community building and state resistance. By placing the history of these modern workers within a broader historical context of Aboriginal education and health, federal labour programs, post-war Aboriginal economic and political developments, and Aboriginal professional organizations, McCallum challenges us to think about Indigenous women’s history in entirely new ways. --Publisher's description. Contents: Sweeping the Nation: Indigenous women and domestic labour in mid-twentieth-century Canada -- Permanent solution: the placement and relocation program, hairdressers, and beauty culture -- Early labour history of community health representatives, 1960-1970 -- Gaining recognition: labour as activism among Indigenous nurses -- Wages of whiteness and the Indigenous historian.

In the critical decades following the First World War, the Canadian political landscape was shifting in ways that significantly recast the relationship between big business and government. As public pressures changed the priorities of Canada's political parties, many of Canada's most powerful businessmen struggled to come to terms with a changing world that was less sympathetic to their ideas and interests than before. Dominion of Capital offers a new account of relations between government and business in Canada during a period of transition between the established expectations of the National Policy and the uncertain future of the twentieth century. Don Nerbas tells this fascinating story through close portraits of influential business and political figures of this period - including Howard P. Robinson, Charles Dunning, Sir Edward Beatty, R.S. McLaughlin, and C.D. Howe - that provide insight into how events in different sectors of the economy and regions of the country shaped the political outlook and strategies of the country's business elite. Drawing on business, political, social, and cultural history, Nerbas revises standard accounts of government-business relations in this period and sheds new light on the challenges facing big business in early twentieth-century Canada. --Publisher's description. Contents: Part 1: Big Business from Triumph to Crisis. Provincial Man of Mystery: Howard P. Robinson and the Politics of Capital in New Brunswick -- Charles A. Dunning: A Progressive in Business and Politics -- The Dilemma of Democracy: Sir Edward Beatty, the Railway Question, and National Government. Part 2: Continentalism and the Managerial Ethic. -- Stewardship and Dependency: Sam McLaughlin, General Motors, and the Labour Question -- Engineering Canada: C.D. Howe and Canadian Big Business -- Conclusion -- Après le déluge -- Endnotes.