Rebel Youth

1960s Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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During the "long sixties," baby boomers raised on democratic postwar ideals demanded a more egalitarian society for all. While a few became vocal leaders at universities across Canada, nearly 90% of Canada's young people went straight to work after high school. There, they brought the anti-authoritarian spirit of the youth revolt to the labour movement.While university-based activists combined youth culture with a new brand of radicalism to form the New Left, young workers were pressing for wildcat strikes and defying their aging union leaders in a wave of renewed militancy. In Rebel Youth, Ian Milligan looks at these converging currents, demonstrating convincingly how they were part of a single youth phenomenon.With just short of seventy interviews complementing the extensive use of archival records from ten different cities, this book claims a central place for labour and class in the legacy of the Canadian sixties.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-07-22
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt500 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor252
FörlagUniversity of British Columbia Press
ISBN9780774826877
UtmärkelserShort-listed for The Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association 2015 (Canada)

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Introduction1 The Challenge of Rebel Youth2 Punching In, Walking Out: The Challenge of Young Workers3 Say Goodbye to the Working Class? New Leftists Debate Social Change4 Leaving Campus: The Outward-Looking New Left in Ontario, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan5 Cold, Slogging Solidarity: Supporting Labour on Picket Lines in Ontario and Nova Scotia, 1968-726 A Relationship Culminates: The 1973 Artistic Woodwork StrikeConclusionNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

A highly readable and important work that brings young Canadians who were in the workforce – rather than attending university – into the conversation about what the social and cultural upheavals of the 1960s were all about. - James Pitsula, author of New World Dawning: The Sixties at Regina Campus ...Milligan's study is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the long sixties, which highlights the diversity and complexity of the era that has heretofore escaped popular memories of it. - Kevin Brushett, Royal Military College of Canada (British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 29 No. 2, Fall 2016)