From Consent to Coercion
The Assault to Trade Union Freedoms
Garamond Press
3rd Edition
Published on 1. September 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-1-55193-049-7 (ISBN)
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Description
This third edition of this text examines the shift from consent towards coercion in the state's relationship to labour in Canada, and extends the analysis through the 1990s to the beginning of the 21st century. It contains two new chapters, one on coercion in the Chretien era and another which advances a strategy for labour movements to confront the difficult challenges facing working poeple today. Lists of legislation and all tables have been completely updated.
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Edition
3rd Revised ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Ontario
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
notes, index, bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
440 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55193-049-7 (9781551930497)
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Content
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.