Jobs and justice : fighting discrimination in wartime Canada, 1939-1945 /

Juxtaposing 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 during the Second World War and obtain official condemnation of such discri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Patrias, Carmela, 1950-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press ©2012
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt2ttk1r
Table of Contents:
  • Part One Invidious Distinctions. 1 Employment Discrimination and State Complicity
  • Part Two Discrimination Is Sabotage: Minority Accommodation, Protest, and Resistance. 2 Jews
  • 3 Other Racialized Citizens
  • 4 The Disenfranchised
  • Part Three Ambivalent Allies: Anglo-Saxon Critics of Discrimination. 5 Mainstream Critics and the Burden of Inherited Ideas
  • 6 Labour and the Left
  • Part Four Anglo-Saxon Guardianship. 7 Anglo-Saxon Guardianship
  • Conclusion.