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Rebel Youth : 1960s Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada / Ian Milligan.
Lippincott Library HD6276.C3 M54 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milligan, Ian, 1983- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Young adults--Employment--Canada--History--20th century.
- Young adults.
- Young adults--Canada--Social conditions--20th century.
- Young adults--Political activity--Canada--History--20th century.
- Labor movement--Canada--History--20th century.
- Labor movement.
- History.
- Young adults--Political activity.
- Social conditions.
- Young adults--Employment.
- Young adults--Social conditions.
- Canada.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 241 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver, British Columbia : UBC Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- Text in English.
- Summary:
- 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. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The Challenge of Rebel Youth 12
- Punching In, Walking Out: The Challenge of Young Workers 37
- Say Goodbye to the Working Class? New Leftists Debate Social Change 65
- Leaving Campus: The Outward-Looking New Left in Ontario, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan 91
- Cold, Slogging Solidarity: Supporting Labour on Picket Lines in Ontario and Nova Scotia, 1968-72 121
- A Relationship Culminates: The 1973 Artistic Woodwork Strike 150.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Milligan, Ian, 1983-, author. Rebel youth.
- ISBN:
- 9780774826877
- 0774826878
- OCLC:
- 865158388
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