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



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Autore: Goutor David <1969-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Guarding the gates : the Canadian labour movement and immigration, 1872-1934 / / David Goutor Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Vancouver, : UBC Press, c2007
Edizione: 1st ed.
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 Emigration et immigration Politique gouvernementale Histoire
Canada Emigration 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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-59338-2
9786612593383
0-7748-5562-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910811390703321
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