04108nam 2200745 450 991045225020332120200520144314.01-4426-9387-810.3138/9781442693876(CKB)2550000000100878(OCoLC)794620051(CaPaEBR)ebrary10560492(SSID)ssj0000656782(PQKBManifestationID)12264870(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000656782(PQKBWorkID)10634474(PQKB)11257376(CEL)438809(CaBNVSL)slc00228864(MiAaPQ)EBC3280083(MiAaPQ)EBC4672776(DE-B1597)479177(OCoLC)987945115(DE-B1597)9781442693876(Au-PeEL)EBL4672776(CaPaEBR)ebr11258430(OCoLC)958572537(EXLCZ)99255000000010087820160923h20122012 uy 0engurcn||||||a||txtccrJobs and justice fighting discrimination in wartime Canada, 1939-1945 /Carmela PatriasToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2012.©20121 online resource (260 p.) Includes index.1-4426-1128-6 1-4426-4236-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- IndexDespite 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 the war intensified hostility and suspicion toward minority workers, the urgent need for their contributions and the egalitarian rhetoric used to mobilize the war effort also created an opportunity for minority activists and their English Canadian allies to challenge discrimination.Juxtaposing a discussion of state policy with ideas of race and citizenship in Canadian civil society, Carmela K. Patrias shows how minority activists were able to bring national attention to racist employment discrimination and obtain official condemnation of such discrimination. Extensively researched and engagingly written, Jobs and Justice offers a new perspective on the Second World War, the racist dimensions of state policy, and the origins of human rights campaigns in Canada.Discrimination in employmentCanadaHistory20th centuryDiscrimination in employmentGovernment policyCanadaMinoritiesEmploymentCanadaHistory20th centuryMinoritiesCivil rightsCanadaHistory20th centuryRacismCanadaHistory20th centuryCanadaRace relationsHistory20th centuryElectronic books.Discrimination in employmentHistoryDiscrimination in employmentGovernment policyMinoritiesEmploymentHistoryMinoritiesCivil rightsHistoryRacismHistory331.13/3097109044Patrias Carmela1950-985905MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452250203321Jobs and justice2253449UNINA