Actions for Jobs and justice : fighting discrimination in wartime Canada, 1939-1945

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

Author
Patrias, Carmela, 1950-
Published
Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, [2012]
Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2012.
Copyright Date
©2012
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 249 pages) : illustrations, digital file
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Contents
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.
Summary
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.
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ISBN
9781442693876 (electronic bk.)
1442693878 (electronic bk.)
9781442642362
144264236X
9781442611283
1442611286
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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