Jobs and Justice : : Fighting Discrimination in Wartime Canada, 1939-1945 / / Carmela Patrias.
Despite acute labour shortages during the Second World War, Canadian employers-with the complicity of state officials-discriminated against workers of African, Asian, and Eastern and Southern European origin, excluding them from both white collar and skilled jobs. Jobs and Justice argues that, while...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One: Invidious Distinctions
- 1 Employment Discrimination and State Complicity
- Part Two: Discrimination Is Sabotage: Minority Accommodation, Protest, and Resistance
- 2 Jews
- 3 Other Racialized Citizens
- 4 The Disenfranchised
- Part Three: Ambivalent Allies: Anglo-Saxon Critics of Discrimination
- 5 Mainstream Critics and the Burden of Inherited Ideas
- 6 Labour and the Left
- Part Four: Anglo-Saxon Guardianship
- 7 Anglo-Saxon Guardianship
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index