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Chapter 5

Counterattack

From: The Canadian Labour Movement

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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, legislative restrictions on collective bargaining and less coercive efforts to draw labour leaders into corporatist consultative structures.

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Craig Heron

CRAIG HERON is a professor emeritus of History at York University in Toronto and the author of several works in Canadian social history, including Working in Steel: The Early Years in Canada, 1883–1935; The Workers’ Revolt in Canada, The Workers’ Festival: A History of Labour Day in Canada, Lunch-Bucket Lives: Remaking the Workers’ City and Working Lives: Essays in Canadian Working-Class History.

Charles Smith

CHARLES SMITH is an associate professor and department head of Political Studies at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan. He is co-author of Unions in Court: Organized Labour and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and co-editor of the journal Labour/Le Travail.