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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811390703321

Autore

Goutor David <1969->

Titolo

Guarding the gates : the Canadian labour movement and immigration, 1872-1934 / / David Goutor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, : UBC Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-59338-2

9786612593383

0-7748-5562-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Disciplina

331.880971/09041

Soggetti

Labor unions - Canada - History

Foreign workers - Canada - History

Race discrimination - Canada - History

Syndicats - Canada - Histoire

Immigrants - Travail - Canada - Histoire

Discrimination raciale - Canada - Histoire

Canada Emigration and immigration Government policy History

Canada Emigration and immigration History

Canada Emigration et immigration Politique gouvernementale Histoire

Canada Emigration et immigration Histoire

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-263) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Issues and Arguments -- Guarding the Gates -- Setting the Stage: Labour, Industry, and Immigration in Canada, 1872-1934 -- Labour's Anti-Asian Agitation -- The Bounds of Unity: Opposition to Chinese Immigration, 1880-87 -- The "Old Time Question": The Campaign for Exclusion, 1888-1934 -- Labour and Atlantic Immigration -- Superfluous People: Labour's Construction of Immigrants from Europe and the British Isles -- Importing Victims: The Assault on the Commerce of Immigration -- Immigration, Ideology, and Politics -- Immigration, Joseph Arch, and the Producer Ideology, 1872-79 -- Imported Labour, the Tariff, and Land Reform, 1880-1902 -- Retreat,



Corporatism, and Responsible Management, 1903-34 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

From the 1870s until the Great Depression, immigration was often the question of the hour in Canada. Politicians, the media, and an array of interest groups viewed it as essential to nation building, developing the economy, and shaping Canada's social and cultural character. One of the groups most determined to influence public debate and government policy on the issue was organized labour, and unionists were often relentless critics of immigrant recruitment. Guarding the Gates is the first detailed study of Canadian labour leaders' approach to immigration, a key battleground in struggles between different political factions within the labour movement. This book provides new insights into labour, immigration, social, and political history.