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Guarding the Gates : The Canadian Labour Movement and Immigration, 1872-1934.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (287 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780774855624
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Guarding the GatesDDC classification:
  • 331.880971
LOC classification:
  • HD6524 -- .G68 2007eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- PART 1: ISSUES AND ARGUMENTS -- 1 Guarding the Gates -- 2 Setting the Stage: Labour, Industry, and Immigration in Canada, 1872-1934 -- PART 2: LABOUR'S ANTI-ASIAN AGITATION -- 3 The Bounds of Unity: Opposition to Chinese Immigration, 1880-87 -- 4 The "Old Time Question": The Campaign for Exclusion, 1888-1934 -- PART 3: LABOUR AND ATLANTIC IMMIGRATION -- 5 Superfluous People: Labour's Construction of Immigrants from Europe and the British Isles -- 6 Importing Victims: The Assault on the Commerce of Immigration -- PART 4: IMMIGRATION, IDEOLOGY, AND POLITICS -- 7 Immigration, Joseph Arch, and the Producer Ideology, 1872-79 -- 8 Imported Labour, the Tariff, and Land Reform, 1880-1902 -- 9 Retreat, Corporatism, and Responsible Management, 1903-34 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X.
Summary: A pioneering study of Canadian labour leaders' approach to immigration from the 1870s to the Great Depression.
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Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- PART 1: ISSUES AND ARGUMENTS -- 1 Guarding the Gates -- 2 Setting the Stage: Labour, Industry, and Immigration in Canada, 1872-1934 -- PART 2: LABOUR'S ANTI-ASIAN AGITATION -- 3 The Bounds of Unity: Opposition to Chinese Immigration, 1880-87 -- 4 The "Old Time Question": The Campaign for Exclusion, 1888-1934 -- PART 3: LABOUR AND ATLANTIC IMMIGRATION -- 5 Superfluous People: Labour's Construction of Immigrants from Europe and the British Isles -- 6 Importing Victims: The Assault on the Commerce of Immigration -- PART 4: IMMIGRATION, IDEOLOGY, AND POLITICS -- 7 Immigration, Joseph Arch, and the Producer Ideology, 1872-79 -- 8 Imported Labour, the Tariff, and Land Reform, 1880-1902 -- 9 Retreat, Corporatism, and Responsible Management, 1903-34 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X.

A pioneering study of Canadian labour leaders' approach to immigration from the 1870s to the Great Depression.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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