Charles Smith
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 The Canadian Labour MovementA Short History |
The Canadian Labour Movement tells the story of Canada’s workers since the mid-nineteenth century, painting a vivid picture of key developments, such as the birth of craft unionism, the … | Charles Smith; Craig Heron | 240 | 2020 | View |
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From Prefaces to the Fourth, First and Second Editions |
The prefaces to the fourth, first and second editions of this book outline the changes the various editions have seen and to what degree. | Charles Smith; Craig Heron | 2 | 2020 | $0.20 Add |
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From Introduction |
Author Craig Heron introduces the reader to the broad outlines of economic and social development in Canada that helped to shape the Canadian labour movement since the mid-nineteenth century. It … | Charles Smith; Craig Heron | 14 | 2020 | $1.40 Add |
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From Chapter 1The Craftworkers' Challenge |
This chapter traces the rise of working-class organizing in mid nineteenth-century Canada in the context of Canada’s First Industrial Revolution, moving from informal protests to narrowly … | Charles Smith; Craig Heron | 27 | 2020 | $2.70 Add |
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From Chapter 2The Workers' Revolt |
Chapter two deals with the emergence of new workers’ movements on the changing terrain of the Second Industrial Revolution in Canada. It also explores the emerging crisis for craftworkers … | Charles Smith; Craig Heron | 30 | 2020 | $3.00 Add |
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From Chapter 3The Giant Tamed |
This chapter considers the difficulties of organizing against employer hostility, relative state indifference, economic depression in the 1930s and then the emergence of vibrant new … | Charles Smith; Craig Heron | 27 | 2020 | $2.70 Add |
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From Chapter 4The New Resistance |
Author Craig Heron explores the rise of new waves of labour unrest in the 1960s and 1970s. The chapter addresses the economic, social and political conditions that spawned this new resistance and … | Charles Smith; Craig Heron | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
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From Chapter 5Counterattack |
Chapter five examines the emerging response of the state and private employers to the new working-class militancy of the 1970s. It considers the introduction of wage and price controls, … | Charles Smith; Craig Heron | 26 | 2020 | $2.60 Add |
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From Chapter 6Labour Challenges at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century |
This chapter traces the emergence of new forces within the Canadian labour movement aimed at revitalizing it: nationalists upset with the close connection to US labour, Quebec workers determined … | Charles Smith; Craig Heron | 34 | 2020 | $3.40 Add |
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From Chapter 7The Struggle Continues |
Chapter seven examines the impact that the triumph of neo-liberalism had on the Canadian labour movement in the 1990s and the early 2000s. It includes the many state measures introduced to … | Charles Smith; Craig Heron | 26 | 2020 | $2.60 Add |
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From Glossary of Labour Centrals |
A comprehensive list of all labour centrals mentioned in each chapter. | Charles Smith; Craig Heron | 3 | 2020 | $0.30 Add |
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From Further Reading |
A list of resources for further reading. | Charles Smith; Craig Heron | 17 | 2020 | $1.70 Add |
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From Index |
Index of topics. | Charles Smith; Craig Heron | 8 | 2020 | $0.80 Add |
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From  The Erosion of Workers’ Rights in SaskatchewanThe Saskatchewan Party, Labour Law Reform and Organized Labour, 2007-2020 From: Divided |
In this essay, the authors examine the decades-long struggle by industry and business lobby groups to unravel what was once the most progressive labour legislation in the country. | Andrew Stevens; Charles Smith | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
