Guarding the Gates : The Canadian Labour Movement and Immigration, 1872-1934.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (287 pages)
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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Labor unions -- Canada -- History. Foreign workers -- Canada -- History. Race discrimination -- Canada -- History. Syndicats -- Canada -- Histoire. Immigrants -- Travail -- Canada -- Histoire. Discrimination raciale -- Canada -- Histoire. Canada -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History.