Jobs and Justice Fighting Discrimination in Wartime Canada, 1939-1945

Informationen zum Autor Carmela K. Patrias is an associate professor in the Department of History at Brock University. Klappentext 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 discrimination. Zusammenfassung 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 discrimination. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction PART ONE: Invidious Distinctions Employment Discrimination and State Complicity PART TWO Discrimination Is Sabotage: Minority Accommodation, Protest and Resistance Jews Other Racialized Citizens The Disenfranchised PART THREE: Ambivalent Allies: Anglo-Saxon Critics of Discrimination Mainstream Critics and the Burden of Inherited Ideas     Labour and the Left PART FOUR: Anglo-Saxon Guardianship Anglo-Saxon Guardianship Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Carmela Patrias, Carmela/ Irondelle Patrias, Carmela K. Patrias
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 30.01.2012
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories
• EAN: 9781442611283
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-1128-3
• Pages: 256
• Subjects: Amerikanische Geschichte, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / Social History, History - General History, HISTORY / Canada / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General