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

• Autore: Goutor David <1969->
• Pubblicazione: Vancouver, : UBC Press, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.880971/09041
• Soggetto topico: Labor unions - Canada - History; Foreign workers - Canada - History; Race discrimination - Canada - History; Syndicats - Canada - Histoire; Immigrants - Travail - Canada - Histoire; Discrimination raciale - Canada - Histoire
• Soggetto geografico: Canada Emigration and immigration Government policy History; Canada Emigration and immigration History; Canada Émigration et immigration Politique gouvernementale Histoire; Canada Émigration et immigration Histoire
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Guarding the gates
• ISBN: 1-282-59338-2; 9786612593383; 0-7748-5562-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780520003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II