Rebel Youth : 1960s Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada Hardback
by Ian Milligan
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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, demonstrating convincingly how they were part of a single youth phenomenon. 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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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:252 pages
- Publisher:University of British Columbia Press
- Publication Date:22/07/2014
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- ISBN:9780774826877
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:252 pages
- Publisher:University of British Columbia Press
- Publication Date:22/07/2014
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- ISBN:9780774826877