
Jobs and Justice
Fighting Discrimination in Wartime Canada, 1939-1945
Carmela Patrias(Author)
University of Toronto Press
Published on 30. January 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-4426-1128-3 (ISBN)
Description
Despite acute labour shortages during the Second World War, Canadian employers-with the complicity of state officials-discriminated against workers of African, Asian, and Eastern and Southern European origin, excluding them from both white collar and skilled jobs. Jobs and Justice argues that, while the war intensified hostility and suspicion toward minority workers, the urgent need for their contributions and the egalitarian rhetoric used to mobilize the war effort also created an opportunity for minority activists and their English Canadian allies to challenge discrimination.
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 and obtain official condemnation of such discrimination. Extensively researched and engagingly written, Jobs and Justice offers a new perspective on the Second World War, the racist dimensions of state policy, and the origins of human rights campaigns in Canada.
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 and obtain official condemnation of such discrimination. Extensively researched and engagingly written, Jobs and Justice offers a new perspective on the Second World War, the racist dimensions of state policy, and the origins of human rights campaigns in Canada.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
12 b&w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 237 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
397 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4426-1128-3 (9781442611283)
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12/2011
1st Edition
University of Toronto Press
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Person
Carmela K. Patrias is an associate professor in the Department of History at Brock University.
Content
Introduction
PART ONE: Invidious Distinctions
Employment Discrimination and State Complicity
PART TWO Discrimination Is Sabotage: Minority Accommodation, Protest and Resistance
Jews
Other Racialized Citizens
The Disenfranchised
PART THREE: Ambivalent Allies: Anglo-Saxon Critics of Discrimination
Mainstream Critics and the Burden of Inherited Ideas
Labour and the Left
PART FOUR: Anglo-Saxon Guardianship
Anglo-Saxon Guardianship
Conclusion
PART ONE: Invidious Distinctions
Employment Discrimination and State Complicity
PART TWO Discrimination Is Sabotage: Minority Accommodation, Protest and Resistance
Jews
Other Racialized Citizens
The Disenfranchised
PART THREE: Ambivalent Allies: Anglo-Saxon Critics of Discrimination
Mainstream Critics and the Burden of Inherited Ideas
Labour and the Left
PART FOUR: Anglo-Saxon Guardianship
Anglo-Saxon Guardianship
Conclusion