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Labour Before the Law: The Regulation of Workers' Collective Action in Canada, 1900-1948

Labour Before the Law: The Regulation of Workers' Collective Action in Canada, 1900-1948

Tucker, Eric
Fudge, Judy

Paperback

Series: Canadian Social History

Canadian HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0802037933
ISBN13: 9780802037930
Publisher: Univ Of Toronto Pr
Published: Dec 15 2001
Pages: 414
Weight: 1.19
Height: 1.18 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.12
Language: English

In this groundbreaking study of the relations between workers and the state, Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker examine the legal regulation of workers' collective action from 1900 to 1948. They analyze the strikes, violent confrontations, lockouts, union organizing drives, legislative initiatives, and major judicial decisions that transformed the labour relations regime of liberal voluntarism, which prevailed in the later part of the nineteenth century, into industrial voluntarism, whose centrepiece was Mackenzie King's Industrial Disputes Investigation Act of 1907. This period was marked by coercion and compromise, as workers organized and fought to extend their rights against the profit oriented owners of capital, while the state struggled to define a labour regime that contained industrial conflict. The authors then trace the conflicts that eventually produced the industrial pluralism that Canadians have known in more recent years.

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