Jobs and justice : fighting discrimination in wartime Canada, 1939-1945 / / Carmela Patrias

• Autore: Patrias Carmela <1950->
• Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2012; ©2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.13/3097109044
• Soggetto topico: Discrimination in employment - Canada - History - 20th century; Discrimination in employment - Government policy - Canada; Minorities - Employment - Canada - History - 20th century; Minorities - Civil rights - Canada - History - 20th century; Racism - Canada - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Canada Race relations History 20th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: History; Electronic books.
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 during the Second World War and obtain official condemnation of such discrimination.
• Titolo autorizzato: Jobs and justice
• ISBN: 1-4426-9388-6; 1-4426-9387-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818008803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II