Rebel youth : 1960s labour unrest, young workers, and new leftists in English Canada / Ian Milligan.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2014.

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.

Contents:

Introduction

The Challenge of Rebel Youth

Punching In, Walking Out: The Challenge of Young Workers

Say Goodbye to the Working Class? New Leftists Debate Social Change

Leaving Campus: The Outward-Looking New Left in Ontario, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan

Cold, Slogging Solidarity: Supporting Labour on Picket Lines in Ontario and Nova Scotia, 1968-72

A Relationship Culminates: The 1973 Artistic Woodwork Strike

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7748-2690-8

0-7748-2689-4

OCLC:

890934458