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This book examines the explosive growth of the CIO in Canada during the Second World War, showing how cultural as well as economic forces were at work in the gritty work of union organizing.

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Although the CIO began the Second World War on precarious ground, by 1945 it had become a powerhouse. Labour Goes to War explains how this transformation took place, offering original insight into the making of the Canadian labour movement during the war years. Drawing on the reconstruction rhetoric of the peoples’ war for democracy, the CIO expanded its own commitment to equality rights for women and minorities and promoted a new language of social entitlement for working people.

-- Joan Sangster, author of Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canada

Table of Contents

Introduction

1 “A Trifle Depressing”: The CIO on the Eve of War

2 Organizing the Unorganized in Wartime

3 Wartime Organizing: Getting to a Majority

4 “Becoming Unionized as Well as Organized”: Union Sociability, the Transmission of Ideas, and the Creed of Equality

5 “The War for the Common Man”: The CIO’s Narrative of a Fulfilled Democracy

6 “Equal Partners in This World Crusade”: Women, Equal Pay, and the CIO

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Labour Goes to War The CIO and the Construction

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      Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/01/2013
      ISBN13: 9780774823432, 978-0774823432
      ISBN10: 0774823437
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      Gender studies, gender groups

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book examines the explosive growth of the CIO in Canada during the Second World War, showing how cultural as well as economic forces were at work in the gritty work of union organizing.

      Trade Review

      Although the CIO began the Second World War on precarious ground, by 1945 it had become a powerhouse. Labour Goes to War explains how this transformation took place, offering original insight into the making of the Canadian labour movement during the war years. Drawing on the reconstruction rhetoric of the peoples’ war for democracy, the CIO expanded its own commitment to equality rights for women and minorities and promoted a new language of social entitlement for working people.

      -- Joan Sangster, author of Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canada

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      1 “A Trifle Depressing”: The CIO on the Eve of War

      2 Organizing the Unorganized in Wartime

      3 Wartime Organizing: Getting to a Majority

      4 “Becoming Unionized as Well as Organized”: Union Sociability, the Transmission of Ideas, and the Creed of Equality

      5 “The War for the Common Man”: The CIO’s Narrative of a Fulfilled Democracy

      6 “Equal Partners in This World Crusade”: Women, Equal Pay, and the CIO

      Conclusion

      Notes

      Bibliography

      Index

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