Description
Book SynopsisRebel Youth draws important connections between the stories of young workers and the youth movement in Canada, claiming a central place for labour and class in the legacy of the 1960s.
Trade ReviewA highly readable and important work that brings young Canadians who were in the workforce – rather than attending university – into the conversation about what the social and cultural upheavals of the 1960s were all about. -- James Pitsula, author of New World Dawning: The Sixties at Regina Campus
...Milligan’s study is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the long sixties, which highlights the diversity and complexity of the era that has heretofore escaped popular memories of it. -- Kevin Brushett, Royal Military College of Canada * British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 29 No. 2, Fall 2016 *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1 The Challenge of Rebel Youth
2 Punching In, Walking Out: The Challenge of Young Workers
3 Say Goodbye to the Working Class? New Leftists Debate Social Change
4 Leaving Campus: The Outward-Looking New Left in Ontario, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan
5 Cold, Slogging Solidarity: Supporting Labour on Picket Lines in Ontario and Nova Scotia, 1968-72
6 A Relationship Culminates: The 1973 Artistic Woodwork Strike
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
