Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Shifting Gears

Canadian Autoworkers and the Changing Landscape of Labour Politics

Av Stephanie Ross, Larry Savage

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Beskrivning

In the decades following the Second World War, autoworkers were at the forefront of the labour movement. Their union urged members to rally in the streets and use the ballot box to effect change for all working-class people. But by the turn of this century, the Canadian Auto Workers union had begun to pursue a more defensive political direction. Shifting Gears traces the evolution of CAW strategy from transformational activism to transactional politics. Class-based collective action and social democratic electoral mobilization gave way to transactional partnerships as relationships between the union, employers, and governments were refashioned. This new approach was maintained when the CAW merged with the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union in 2013 to create Unifor, Canada's largest private-sector union. Stephanie Ross and Larry Savage explain how and why the union shifted its political tactics, offering a critical perspective on the current state of working-class politics.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2024-09-16
Mått: 152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt: 640 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 356
Förlag: University of British Columbia Press
ISBN: 9780774870856

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Stephanie Ross is an associate professor in the School of Labour Studies at McMaster University and the founding president of the Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies. Larry Savage is a professor in the Department of Labour Studies at Brock University. They are the co-authors of Building a Better World: An Introduction to the Labour Movement in Canada and co-editors of Public Sector Unions in the Age of Austerity, Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada, and Labour under Attack: Anti-Unionism in Canada.

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"Ross and Savage's book also has lessons for the broader labour movement, including academic staff associations."- Susan Spronk, University of Ottawa (CAUT) "…the value of this book is the care with which it studies the internal dynamics of a labor union. There are simply not enough studies like this, especially for Canadian labor, and we need more of them."- Barry Eidlin, McGill University (Jacobin) "Shifting Gears is an impressive achievement. It covers over half a century of union history and traces the political evolution of Canada's most interesting and iconic union…"- Herman Rosenfeld (Socialist Project) "[Shifting Gears] promises to be a landmark study of one of Canada's most important unions and its impact on politics in the broader labour movement."- Stephane Doucet (People's Voice)

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