Download or read book The Canadian Labour Movement A Short History written by Craig Heron and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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.
Download or read book The Trade Union Movement of Canada written by Charles Lipton and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unions Equity and the Path to Renewal written by Janice R. Foley and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trade 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.
Download or read book The History of Trade union Organization in Canada written by Harold Amos Logan and published by Chicago : The University of Chicago Press [1928]. This book was released on 1928 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trade Unionism in Canada written by June Dewetering and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Canadian Labour Movement A Short History written by Craig Heron and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Canadian Labour Movement, historian Craig Heron tells the story of Canada's workers from the mid-nineteenth century through to today, painting a vivid picture of key developments such as the birth of craft unionism, the breakthroughs of the fifties and sixties, and the setbacks of the early twenty-first century. This new edition has been completely updated, including a substantial new chapter that covers the period from 1995 to 2011. In this chapter, Heron describes the rise of globalization and the restructuring of the private sector that began in the nineties and continues today. The results have been catastrophic for Canadian working people as plants closed and union activities were curtailed. As the political right succeeded in dominating public debate during this period, workers suffered ever greater losses: fewer and more precarious jobs, rising unemployment, stagnating wages, and increases in poverty. Only with the crash of 2008 and the Occupy Wall Street movement has space for the political left and labour begun to open up once again. The Canadian Labour Movement is the definitive book for anyone who is interested in understanding the origins, achievements, and challenges of labour and social justice movements in Canada.
Download or read book Paths to Union Renewal written by Pradeep Kumar and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The diverse cases and experiences examined in this book hold valuable lessons for labour everywhere." - Elaine Bernard, Harvard Law School
Download or read book The Canadian Labour Movement written by Craig Heron and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Canadian Labour Movement, historian Craig Heron and political scientist Charles Smith tell the story of Canada's workers from the midnineteenth century through to today, painting a vivid picture of key developments, such as the birth of craft unionism, the breakthroughs of the fifties and sixties, and the setbacks of the early twenty-first century. The fourth edition of this book has been completely updated with a substantial new chapter that covers the period from the great recession of 2008 through to 2020. In this chapter, Smith describes the fallout of the financial crisis, how Stephen Harper's government restricted labour rights, the rise of the "gig economy" and precarious work, and the continued de-industrialization in the private sector. These pressures contributed to fracturing the movement, as when Unifor, the largest private sector union, split from the Canadian Labour Congress, the established "house of labour." Through it all, rank-and-file union members have fought for better conditions for all workers, including through campaigns like the fight for a $15 minimum wage. The Canadian Labour Movement is the definitive book for anyone interested in understanding the origins, achievements, and challenges of the labour and social justice movements in Canada.
Download or read book The Trade Union Movement in Canada written by Morden Lazarus and published by Toronto: Co-operative Press Associates, 1972 printing.. This book was released on 1972 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Working People Fifth Edition written by Desmond Morton and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1999-01-13 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the dock workers of Saint John in 1812 to teenage "crews" at McDonald's today, Canada's trade union movement has a long, exciting history. Working People tells the story of the men and women in the labour movement in Canada and their struggle for security, dignity, and influence in our society. Desmond Morton highlights the great events of labour history - the 1902 meeting that enabled international unions to dominate Canadian unionism for seventy years, the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, and an obscure 1944 order-in-council that became the labour's charter of rights and freedoms. He describes the romantic idealism of the Knights of Labor in the 1880s and looks at "new model" unions that used their members' dues and savings to fight powerful employers. Working People explores the clash between idealists, who fought for socialism, industrial democracy, and equality for women and men, and the realists who wrestled with the human realities of self-interest, prejudice, and fear. Morton tells us about Canadians who deserve to be better known - Phillips Thompson, Helena Gutteridge, Lynn Williams, Huguette Plamondon, Mabel Marlowe, Madeleine Parent, and a hundred others whose struggle to reconcile idealism and reality shaped Canada more than they could ever know.
Download or read book Twilight of the Old Unionism written by Leo Troy and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2004 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This controversial study analyses the present and future prospects for organized labour in the private sector. The book takes the decline and ultimate disappearance of labour unions - not just in the United States but elsewhere in the developed world - as fact.
Download or read book Canada s Unions written by Robert Laxer and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a picture of Canada's labour movement in the mid-seventies--its structure, its leaders, and aims. Two parallel themes run through Canada's Unions: the surge in labour militancy led by teachers, hospital workers, federal government workers and other public employees in response to the pressure of rising inflation; and the rise of nationalism and the increasing independence of the Canadian union movement during the 1970s. Canada's Union offers an unparalleled, immediate portrait of the state of the Canadian labour movement during a crucial decade of its existence.
Download or read book Canadian Union Movement in the 1980s written by Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Industrial Relations Centre and published by Kingston, Ont. : Industrial Relations Centre, Queen's University. This book was released on 1988 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the perspectives of Canada's prominent labour leaders on the major challenges and issues facing the Canadian labour movement in the 1980s, and how unions have responded to them. The study is based on personal interviews with heads of 12 major unions and federations conducted by the editors during the months of March through November 1987. Included are the viewpoints of Shirely Carr, Canadian Labour Congress (CLC); Louis Laberge, Quebec Federation of Labour (QFL); Gerald Larose, Confederation of National Trade Unions (CNTU); James McCambly, Canadian Federation of Labour (CFL); Daryl Bean, Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC); James Buchanan, Canadian Paper Workers Union (CPU); Gerard Docquier, United Steel Workers of America (USWA); Clifford Evans, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW); John Fryer, National Union of Provincial Government Employees (NUPGE); Fred Pomeroy, Communication and Electrical Workers of Canada (CWC); Jeff Rose, Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE); and Robert White National Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers Union of Canada (CAW).
Download or read book Trade Unions written by William Trant and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Industrial Relations in Canada written by Stuart Marshall Jamieson and published by Toronto: Macmillan of Canada. This book was released on 1973 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph analysing developments in labour relations in Canada from 1957 to 1972 - covers the origin and growth of the Canadian labour movement, trade unionism, strike activity over the period from 1900 to 1972, etc., and comments on relevant government policy and labour legislation. Bibliography pp. 144 to 151 and references.
Download or read book Women and Unions written by Julie White and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Working People written by Desmond Morton and published by Firefly Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
