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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
Canadiana
Author: Our Union
Author: Jason RussellPublisher: Athabasca University Press
ISBN: 192683643X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The post-war period witnessed dramatic changes in the lives of working-class families. Wages rose, working hours were reduced, pension plans and state social security measures offered greater protection against unemployment, illness, and old age, the standard of living improved, and women and members of immigrant communities entered the labour market in growing numbers. Existing studies of the post-war period have focused above all on unions at the national and international levels, on the "post-war settlement," including the impact of Fordism, and on the chiefly economic issues surrounding collective bargaining, while relatively scant attention has been paid to the role of the union local in daily working-class experience. In Our Union, Jason Russell argues that the union local, as an institution of working-class organization, was a key agent for the Canadian working class as it sought to create a new place for itself in the decades following World War II. Using UAW/CAW Local 27, a broad-based union in London, Ontario, as a case study, he offers a ground-level look at union membership, including some of the social and political agendas that informed union activities. As he writes in the introduction, "This book is as much an outgrowth of years of rank-and-file union activism as it is the result of academic curiosity." Drawing on interviews with former members of UAW/CAW Local 27 as well as on archival sources, Russell offers a narrative that will speak not only to labour historians but to the people about whom they write.
Canadian Statistical Review
Author: Census Canada 1986
Author: Statistics CanadaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780660534855
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
The Journey from Tollgate to Parkway
Author: Adrienne ShaddPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1554883946
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
When the Lincoln Alexander Parkway was named, it was a triumph not only for this distinguished Canadian, but for all African Canadians, It had indeed been a long journey from the days in the 1880s when a Blacks woman named Julia Berry operated one of the tollgates leading up to Hamilton Mountain. The Journey from Tollgate to Parkway examines the history of Blacks in the Hamilton-Wentworth area, from their status as slaves in Upper Canada to their settlement and development of community, their struggle for justice and equality, and their achievements, presented in a fascinating and meticulously researched historical narrative. Adrienne Shadd's original research offers new insights into urban Black history, filling in gaps on the background of families and individuals, while also exploding stereotypes of poverty and underachievement of early Black Hamiltonians. For the very first time, their contributions to the building and development of the city are heralded and take centre stage.
Census Canada 1986
Author: CanadaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780660535203
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Profiles
Author: Statistics CanadaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780660535159
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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