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Jobs and Justice - Fighting Discrimination in Wartime Canada, 1939-1945 (Paperback, New) Loot Price: R704
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Jobs and Justice - Fighting Discrimination in Wartime Canada, 1939-1945 (Paperback, New): Carmela Patrias

Jobs and Justice - Fighting Discrimination in Wartime Canada, 1939-1945 (Paperback, New)

Carmela Patrias

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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.

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Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of origin: Canada
Release date: 2012
First published: 2011
Authors: Carmela Patrias
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 256
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-1-4426-1128-3
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Oral history
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Industrial history
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Alternative lifestyles
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Associations, clubs, societies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Age groups > Adults > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Industrial history
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Oral history
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
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LSN: 1-4426-1128-6
Barcode: 9781442611283

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