From Consent to Coercion

Part one - from the era of consent to the era of coercion: introduction; the post-war era of free collective bargaining; permanent exceptionalism - the turn of coercion in the 1970s. Part two - the consolidation of coercion in the 1980s: the right to strike - freedom of association and the charter; the Mulroney years - freeing trade, coercing labour; consolidating coercion in the provinces; the labour movement in the new era. Part three - closing the century, social democracy, neoliberalism and beyond: the social contract - labour and the NDP; neoliberalism, labour and the Canadian state; towards a new strategy for labour. Appendices: tables on wages, strikes and union membership; legislative orders suspending the right to strike 1950-2002; legislation amending trade union rights - 1982-2002.