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Canada's Unions

by (author) Robert Laxer

Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Initial publish date
Jan 1976
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780888620972
    Publish Date
    Jan 1976
    List Price
    $45.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888620965
    Publish Date
    Jan 1976
    List Price
    $16.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781552771259
    Publish Date
    Feb 2008
    List Price
    $45.00

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Description

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.

About the author

ROBERT LAXER has been a professor of educational theory at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

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