Research Catalog

Title

From consent to coercion : the assault on trade union freedoms / Leo Panitch, Donald Swartz.

Author

Panitch, Leo

Publication

Aurora, Ont. : Garamond Press, 2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

Swartz, Donald, 1945-

Description

x, 270 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Appendices list legislation affecting trade union rights, including the right to strike.

Subject

• Labor unions > Canada > History
• Labor unions > History. > Canada
• Collective bargaining > Canada > History

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Rev. ed. of: The assault on trade union freedoms. Rev., updated ed. 1993.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt.1. From the era of consent to the era of coercion -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The post-war era of free collective bargaining -- 3. Permanent exceptionalism : the turn to coercion in the 1970s -- -- Pt. 2. The consolidation of coercion in the 1980s -- 4. The right to strike : freedom of association and the Charter -- 5. The Mulroney years : freeing trade, coercing labour -- 6. Consolidating coercion in the provinces -- 7. The labour movement in the new era -- -- Pt. 3. Closing the century : social democracy, neoliberalism and beyond -- 8. The social contract : labour and the NDP -- 9. Neoliberalism, labour and the Canadian state -- 10. Towards a new strategy for labour

ISBN

1551930498

LCCN

^^2003495627

OCLC

53926813

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library