LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Industrial Unionism, Industrial Democracy, Classical Liberalism

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABRST 1A03
• Professor: David Goutor

Document Summary

Particularly transformative war (more than world war 1) Before the war started remained deeply committed to policies from an older time. Orthodoxy again characterized government policy (canadian policies did. Canadian labour movement had a lot of struggle in the 1933"s to bring in new organizations (interest in industrial unions, but very few breakthroughs) Oshawa, 1937 the one sit down strike that happens in canada on a large scale (gm) Was more or less successful, one plant in canada where gm recognizes the union. Provincial government is even more against the union than the employer (fights it even more) By the beginning of the war, there is very little progress for unions. Got the downside of unions, the division. Even though iu hadn"t come into canada, they forbid them. Ccl canadian congress of labour (born in 1940) Overall picture is that the union movement is not very strong at the start of the war.