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Labour Goes to War : The CIO and the Construction of a New Social Order, 1939-45.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Canadian Military History SeriesPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (241 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780774823449
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Labour Goes to WarDDC classification:
  • 331.88/33097109044
LOC classification:
  • HD6524 -- .C88 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 "A Trifle Depressing": The CIO on the Eve of War -- 2 Organizing the Unorganized in Wartime -- 3 Wartime Organizing: Getting to a Majority -- 4 "Becoming Unionized as Well as Organized": Union Sociability, the Transmission of Ideas, and the Creed of Equality -- 5 "The War for the Common Man": The CIO's Narrative of a Fulfilled Democracy -- 6 "Equal Partners in This World Crusade": Women, Equal Pay, and the CIO -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: This book examines the explosive growth of the CIO in Canada during the Second World War, showing how cultural as well as economic forces were at work in the gritty work of union organizing.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 "A Trifle Depressing": The CIO on the Eve of War -- 2 Organizing the Unorganized in Wartime -- 3 Wartime Organizing: Getting to a Majority -- 4 "Becoming Unionized as Well as Organized": Union Sociability, the Transmission of Ideas, and the Creed of Equality -- 5 "The War for the Common Man": The CIO's Narrative of a Fulfilled Democracy -- 6 "Equal Partners in This World Crusade": Women, Equal Pay, and the CIO -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book examines the explosive growth of the CIO in Canada during the Second World War, showing how cultural as well as economic forces were at work in the gritty work of union organizing.

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