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Political Science Public Affairs & Administration

Equity, Diversity & Canadian Labour

by (author) Gerald Hunt & David Rayside

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2007
Category
Public Affairs & Administration
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802089564
    Publish Date
    Oct 2007
    List Price
    $106.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780802086341
    Publish Date
    Oct 2007
    List Price
    $49.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442684300
    Publish Date
    Dec 2007
    List Price
    $93
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442691025
    Publish Date
    Oct 2007
    List Price
    $38.95

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In recent years, the Canadian labour movement has undergone fundamental change in response to demands for greater inclusion and representation by women, visible and sexual minorities, and people with disabilities. Equity, Diversity, and Canadian Labour explores the specific challenges put to outmoded attitudes and practices, charting the efforts made by organized labour in Canada towards addressing discrimination in the workplace and within unions themselves. While there has been a fair amount of progress in this regard, persistent impediments to equity and uneven responsiveness within and across diversity issues remain.

This collection of original essays brings together contributors from a variety of academic backgrounds - women's studies, political science, sociology, industrial relations - and from the labour movement itself to examine union policies, practices, and cultures with respect to diversity issues. The first comprehensive analysis of Canadian labour's response to challenges on gender, race, disability, and sexual orientation issues since the 1980s, the book aims to highlight the structural and cultural developments that have taken place within the labour movement around equality rights, and to provide a forum for debates about the extent to which union democracy has been reshaped as a result of equity activism.

About the authors

Gerald Hunt is an associate professor and Chair of the Department of Human Resources Management and Organizational Behaviour in the School of Business at Ryerson Universty.

Gerald Hunt's profile page

David Rayside is a professor in the Department of Political Science and an associate of the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of  Queer Inclusions, Continental Divisions: Public Recognition of Sexual Diversity in Canada and the United States.

David Rayside's profile page

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