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Ian Milligan - Rebel Youth: 1960s Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada - 9780774826877 - V9780774826877
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Rebel Youth: 1960s Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada

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Description for Rebel Youth: 1960s Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada Hardback. Rebel 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. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJPK; HBTB; JFSP; KCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.

During the “long sixties,” baby boomers raised on democratic postwar ideals demanded a more egalitarian society for all. While a few became vocal leaders at universities across Canada, nearly 90% of Canada’s young people went straight to work after high school. There, they brought the anti-authoritarian spirit of the youth revolt to the labour movement.

While university-based activists combined youth culture with a new brand of radicalism to form the New Left, young workers were pressing for wildcat strikes and defying their aging union leaders in a wave of renewed militancy. In Rebel Youth, Ian Milligan looks at these converging currents, ... Read more

With just short of seventy interviews complementing the extensive use of archival records from ten different cities, this book claims a central place for labour and class in the legacy of the Canadian sixties.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774826877
SKU
V9780774826877
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Ian Milligan
Ian Milligan is an assistant professor of Canadian and digital history at the University of Waterloo.

Reviews for Rebel Youth: 1960s Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada
A 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 ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Rebel Youth: 1960s Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada


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