Labour Goes to War

The CIO and the Construction of a New Social Order, 1939-45

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

AvWendy Cuthbertson

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During the Second World War, the Congress of Industrial Organizations in Canada grew from a handful of members to more than a quarter-million and from political insignificance to a position of influence in the emergence of the welfare state. What was it about the "good war" that brought about this phenomenal growth?Labour Goes to War analyzes the organizing strategies of the CIO during the war to show that both cultural and economic forces were at work. Labour shortages gave workers greater power in the workplace and increased their militancy. But workers' patriotism, their ties to those on active service, and allegiance to the "people's war" also contributed to the CIO's growth – and to what it claimed for workers. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Wendy Cuthbertson illuminates this complex wartime context. She also shows how the complex, often contradictory, motives of workers during this period left the Canadian labour movement with an ambivalent progressive/conservative legacy.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-06-12
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt480 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Canadian Military History
Antal sidor240
FörlagUniversity of British Columbia Press
ISBN9780774823425

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Introduction1 "A Trifle Depressing": The CIO on the Eve of War2 Organizing the Unorganized in Wartime3 Wartime Organizing: Getting to a Majority4 "Becoming Unionized as Well as Organized": Union Sociability, the Transmission of Ideas, and the Creed of Equality5 "The War for the Common Man": The CIO's Narrative of a Fulfilled Democracy6 "Equal Partners in This World Crusade": Women, Equal Pay, and the CIOConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Although the CIO began the Second World War on precarious ground, by 1945 it had become a powerhouse. Labour Goes to War explains how this transformation took place, offering original insight into the making of the Canadian labour movement during the war years. Drawing on the reconstruction rhetoric of the peoples' war for democracy, the CIO expanded its own commitment to equality rights for women and minorities and promoted a new language of social entitlement for working people.- Joan Sangster, author of Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canada