David Goutor

Guarding the Gates

The Canadian Labour Movement and Immigration, 1872-1934

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Produktbeschreibung

A pioneering study of Canadian labour leaders' approach to immigration from the 1870s to the Great Depression.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780774813655
• ISBN-10: 0774813652
• Artikelnr.: 23429184

Autorenporträt

David Goutor is a Canadian historian and an assistant professor in the Labour Studies Programme at McMaster University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Part 1: Issues and Arguments 1 Guarding the Gates 2 Setting the Stage: Labour
Industry
and Immigration in Canada
1872-1934 Part 2: Labour's Anti-Asian Agitation 3 The Bounds of Unity: Opposition to Chinese Immigration
1880-87 4 The "Old Time Question": The Campaign for Exclusion
1888-1934 Part 3: Labour and Atlantic Immigration  5 Superfluous People: Labour's Construction of Immigrants from Europe and the British Isles 6 Importing Victims: The Assault on the Commerce of Immigration Part 4: Immigration
Ideology
and Politics 7 Immigration
Joseph Arch
and the Producer Ideology
1872-79 8 Imported Labour
the Tariff
and Land Reform
1880-1902 9 Retreat
Corporatism
and Responsible Management
1903-34 Conclusion Notes; Bibliography; Index