Description
Book SynopsisA pioneering study of Canadian labour leaders’ approach to immigration from the 1870s to the Great Depression.
Trade ReviewDavid Goutor skilfully explores the meanings and consequences of organized labour’s opposition to wholesale recruitment of labour abroad and to different streams of immigration ... Goutor’s most significant contribution is to explore the relationship between labour’s attitudes to immigration and its ability to develop as an effective political force. -- James Naylor, Brandon University * BC Studies, No. 155, Autumn 2007 *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Part 1: Issues and Arguments
1 Guarding the Gates
2 Setting the Stage: Labour, Industry, and Immigration in Canada, 1872-1934
Part 2: Labour’s Anti-Asian Agitation
3 The Bounds of Unity: Opposition to Chinese Immigration, 1880-87
4 The “Old Time Question”: The Campaign for Exclusion, 1888-1934
Part 3: Labour and Atlantic Immigration
5 Superfluous People: Labour’s Construction of Immigrants from Europe and the British Isles
6 Importing Victims: The Assault on the Commerce of Immigration
Part 4: Immigration, Ideology, and Politics
7 Immigration, Joseph Arch, and the Producer Ideology, 1872-79
8 Imported Labour, the Tariff, and Land Reform, 1880-1902
9 Retreat, Corporatism, and Responsible Management, 1903-34
Conclusion
Notes; Bibliography; Index
