{"product_id":"jobs-and-justice-9781442611283","title":"Jobs and Justice","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite 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. \u003cem\u003eJobs and Justice\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJuxtaposing 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, \u003cem\u003eJobs and Justice\u003c\/em\u003e offers a new perspective \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction    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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408348848471,"sku":"9781442611283","price":23.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442611283.jpg?v=1730502542","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/jobs-and-justice-9781442611283","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}