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Acknowledgments | p. 7 |
Introduction | p. 8 |
Workplace Citizenship: Union Roles and Structures | p. 14 |
The Movement in Theory | p. 15 |
Revolutionary Theories | p. 15 |
Accommodationist Theories | p. 18 |
A Multiplicity of Roles | p. 20 |
Roles and Functions | p. 20 |
Unions as Agents for their Members | p. 21 |
Establishing Industrial Citizenship in the Workplace | p. 21 |
Giving Workers a Political Voice | p. 22 |
Labour Legislation and Law | p. 23 |
The Movement Structure | p. 33 |
Parent Unions | p. 37 |
Union Centrals | p. 39 |
The Role of the Canadian Labour Congress | p. 41 |
Union Democracy | p. 44 |
The Challenge of Racialized Labour Forces, Racialized Workplaces, and Racialized Communities | p. 49 |
Notes | p. 54 |
Acting for Members, Acting for Society | p. 55 |
Building the Movement | p. 55 |
Representing Members: Collective Bargaining | p. 68 |
Representing Members: Grievance Procedures | p. 77 |
Representing Members: Strikes | p. 82 |
The Results of Collective Bargaining | p. 86 |
How Have Unions Fared in Collective Bargaining in Recent Years? | p. 86 |
Notes | p. 91 |
Creative Organizing and Determined Militancy: A Brief History of Trade Unions in Canada | p. 93 |
Craft Unions | p. 93 |
Knights of Labour | p. 95 |
Monopoly Capitalism | p. 95 |
Workers' Revolt and the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike | p. 102 |
The 1920s: Labour's Low Point | p. 104 |
The Workers' Unity League | p. 105 |
The CIO | p. 107 |
The Second World War | p. 110 |
The Postwar Compromise | p. 111 |
Women and the Postwar Compromise | p. 112 |
The Costs of the Postwar Compromise | p. 113 |
Communist Purge | p. 114 |
A Certain Complacency | p. 114 |
The End of the Long Boom, and Renewed Labour Militancy | p. 115 |
Quebec | p. 116 |
Public-Sector Unionism | p. 119 |
A New Union Movement | p. 119 |
Women and Labour | p. 120 |
Canadianization | p. 121 |
The Economic Crisis and an Assault on Labour | p. 122 |
Capitalist Solidarity and the Lean State | p. 125 |
The Changing Structure of the Labour Force | p. 129 |
Free Trade | p. 130 |
Labour's Response to the Transformation of Canada | p. 133 |
Mergers and Canadianization | p. 136 |
Acting Politically | p. 138 |
Partyism | p. 139 |
Labourism | p. 140 |
Syndicalism | p. 140 |
Socialism | p. 142 |
The 1919 Strikes | p. 143 |
The Communist Party of Canada: 1921-35 | p. 144 |
The Emergence of the CCF | p. 145 |
CPC versus CCF: The Battle for Labour's Allegiance | p. 149 |
Communist Purge | p. 151 |
Merger and the New Party | p. 152 |
The Waffle | p. 154 |
Union Politics in the Neo-Liberal Era | p. 157 |
Popular Movements | p. 157 |
Women and Labour | p. 159 |
The Struggle against Free Trade | p. 163 |
The Rae Government and the Social Contract | p. 165 |
Political Quandary | p. 168 |
Facing the Twenty-First Century | p. 171 |
The Challenges of Globalization | p. 172 |
Organizing a New Labour Force | p. 176 |
Education, Mobilization, and Democratization | p. 181 |
Building Inclusive and Representative Unions | p. 184 |
Labour in Politics | p. 187 |
References | p. 193 |
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