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Author: Pradeep Kumar
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781551930589
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The diverse cases and experiences examined in this book hold valuable lessons for labour everywhere." - Elaine Bernard, Harvard Law School
Author: Craig Heron
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 155028522X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Canadian Labour Movement is a fascinating story that brings to life the working men and women who built Canada's unions. This concise history recounts the story of Canadian labour from the nineteenth century to the present day. First published in 1989, it has been updated to include new developments in the world of labour up to 1995. Heron depicts the major events and trends in labour's history, and assesses the current state and direction of the labour movement. The Canadian Labour Movement is a masterful overview of the subject, providing a broad and accessible introduction to Canadian labour.
Author: D'Arcy Martin
Publisher: Between The Lines
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 0921284969
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the past seventeen years, trade union educator D'Arcy Martin has conducted hundreds of courses for Canadian workers. He has learned that there are people-"conscious romantics"-who dream of a more egalitarian world while confronting the obstacles that stand in the way of building it. This book provides a refreshing personal account of union culture and its dynamics.
Author: Larry Savage
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2017-06-09
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 0774835419
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the turn of the twenty-first century, Canadian unions have scored a number of important Supreme Court victories, securing constitutional rights to picket, bargain collectively, and strike. But how did the labour movement, historically hostile to judicial intervention in labour relations, come to embrace legal activism as a first line of defense as opposed to a last resort? Unions in Court documents the evolution of the Canadian labour movement’s engagement with the Charter, demonstrating how and why labour has adopted a controversial, Charter-based legal strategy to challenge and change legislation that restricts union rights. This book’s in-depth examination of constitutional labour rights will have critical implications for labour movements as well as activists in other fields.
Author: Craig Heron
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780802080820
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA clear, concise portrait of one of the most dramatic moments in the history of working-class life and class relations generally in Canada - the upsurge of working-class protest at the end of the First World War.
Author: Alvin Finkel
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1926836588
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA political and economic analysis of the history of working people in Alberta.
Author: Janice R. Foley
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2010-07-01
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 0774858982
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTrade unions in Canada are losing their traditional support base, and membership numbers could sink to US levels unless unions recapture their power. Unions, Equity, and the Path to Renewal brings together a distinguished group of union activists and equity scholars who trace how traditional union cultures, practices, and structures have eroded solidarity and activism and created an equity deficit in Canadian unions. Informed by a feminist vision of unions as instruments of social justice, the contributors argue that equity within unions is not simply one possible path to union renewal � it is the only way to reposition organized labour as a central institution in workers' lives.
Author: Barry Eidlin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-05-03
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 1107106702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy are unions weaker in the US than they are in Canada, despite the countries' many similarities?
Author: Stephen Lyon Endicott
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 1442612266
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Workers' Unity League (WUL) occupies a storied place in Canadian labour history. In the bleak early years of the Great Depression, as jobs vanished, wages sank, and unions stood transfixed, "a small, but feisty organization" (ix) exploded onto industrial Canada and, by force of sheer political will, it seems, rallied an array of workers in heroic battle against some of the most recalcitrant employers in the country. Tales of these conflicts, particularly those in small centres such as Bienfait, Flin Flon, and Stratford, or in the woods of Vancouver Island or the mining communities of the Crowsnest Pass, are staples of labour history in this country and provide classic vignettes of class struggle at its rawest. The On-to-Ottawa Trek, the culmination of WUL organizing in the relief camps, represents in many a Canadian history survey the denouement of a narrative of social tensions stretched to the breaking point at mid-decade. Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of the WUL's actions, and historians' views are varied, the organization is credited with reigniting working-class resistance and with training a new generation of labour and political activists. Raising the Workers' Flag, Stephen L. Endicott's engaging and well-researched history of the WUL skilfully conveys the breadth and the intensity of the movement through its short history.
Author: Bev Burke
Publisher: Between the Lines(CA)
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEducation for Changing Unions presents a rich, stimulating, and provocative storehouse of practical and structured activities, ideas, and debate about union education. Written in a clear and accessible style, the authors have created a book to inspire working people and teachers in many settings and locations. All the exercises and activities have been widely tested. Six thematic threads tie the book together: community, democracy, equity, class consciousness, organization building, and the greater good. Evaluation, strategic planning, and survival for the long haul round out the discussion. See also the popular companion book, Educating for a Change, Martin et al. (BTL, 1991).
