LABRST 2A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Unifor, Fide, Jewish Labor Committee
21 Dec 2016
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White man"s movement: mainstream movement, not open to visible minorities, other races or women, open only to older men with skill. Not long term members: tended to be supported with aboriginals and african. Radical movement: only radical elements (socialist party of canadian and industrial workers of the world) challenged this movement, heavily committed to broad-based solidarity of workers, endorsed racism or did not challenge it. By 1900 the socialist of bc was supportive of anti- Chinese: radicalism did not always cure you from racism. Human rights agitation: in the 1940"s and 50"s new human rights groups start emerging, emerge mostly in immigrant community, biggest community is the jewish community, labour organizations become the biggest supporter of human rights. Workers now represented by unions, they weren"t before cause they were not active. Also convinces labour leaders to support them, even mainstream leaders. Most effective = go to the top leaders of the labour movement and say you need to support us.
