Add to ORKGThis essay examines the New Left’s impact on the Canadian labour movement in the 1960s and 1970s. Specifically, it argues that in large industrial unions such as the UAW, New Left ideas that were popular amongst the rank and file were stifled by the more conservative labour bureaucrats. However, in public sector unions and unions unaffiliated with the Canadian Labour Congress, New Left ideas were often able to flourish, and these more radical unions were sometimes able to obtain substantial gains for their members throughout the 1970s while also fostering a broader sense of class consciousness in Canadian society -- culminating most notably in the Common Front’s general strikes in Quebec. Furthermore, this essay suggests that New Left ideas...
Since the late 1960s, the New Canadian Political Economy (NCPE) has played an important role in shap...
Using Marxist state theory as an analytical framework, this thesis explains the problems faced by t...
The working class, because of its position, has not, since the Industrial Revolution, produced a cu...
This essay looks at the ways Frederick Winslow Taylor\u27s distinctly modern theories of scientific ...
The British New Left’s lack of influence in working-class and labour movement politics is often addu...
The role of the Left in unions, women’s activism, and the rise of industrial unions in the post-Worl...
In 2016, Labour/Le Travail, the journal of Canadian labour studies, celebrates its 40th anniversary....
This thesis examines the Service, Office, and Retail Workers’ Union of Canada (SORWUC), an independe...
Creating organizations through which the poor could have a voice was the primary goal of the anti-po...
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Waffle movement in the New Democratic Party (ndp) emerged as ...
Ross, Stephanie and Larry Savage, eds. 2012. Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada
The session attracted an audience of about 30. There was a very good discussion afterwards of all th...
My dissertation research is interdisciplinary in nature, at the nexus of three areas of scholarly wo...
Why are class politics more prevalent in Canada than in the U.S., even though the two countries shar...
The long view of New Brunswick history over the past century shows us glimpses of a vigorous traditi...
Since the late 1960s, the New Canadian Political Economy (NCPE) has played an important role in shap...
Using Marxist state theory as an analytical framework, this thesis explains the problems faced by t...
The working class, because of its position, has not, since the Industrial Revolution, produced a cu...
This essay looks at the ways Frederick Winslow Taylor\u27s distinctly modern theories of scientific ...
The British New Left’s lack of influence in working-class and labour movement politics is often addu...
The role of the Left in unions, women’s activism, and the rise of industrial unions in the post-Worl...
In 2016, Labour/Le Travail, the journal of Canadian labour studies, celebrates its 40th anniversary....
This thesis examines the Service, Office, and Retail Workers’ Union of Canada (SORWUC), an independe...
Creating organizations through which the poor could have a voice was the primary goal of the anti-po...
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Waffle movement in the New Democratic Party (ndp) emerged as ...
Ross, Stephanie and Larry Savage, eds. 2012. Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada
The session attracted an audience of about 30. There was a very good discussion afterwards of all th...
My dissertation research is interdisciplinary in nature, at the nexus of three areas of scholarly wo...
Why are class politics more prevalent in Canada than in the U.S., even though the two countries shar...
The long view of New Brunswick history over the past century shows us glimpses of a vigorous traditi...
Since the late 1960s, the New Canadian Political Economy (NCPE) has played an important role in shap...
Using Marxist state theory as an analytical framework, this thesis explains the problems faced by t...
The working class, because of its position, has not, since the Industrial Revolution, produced a cu...