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

by Carmela Patrias

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442611283
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
Publication date:	01/30/2012
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Carmela K. Patrias is an associate professor in the Department of History at Brock University.

Table of Contents

Introduction

PART ONE: Invidious Distinctions

1. Employment Discrimination and State Complicity

PART TWO Discrimination Is Sabotage: Minority Accommodation, Protest and Resistance

1. Jews
2. Other Racialized Citizens
3. The Disenfranchised

PART THREE: Ambivalent Allies: Anglo-Saxon Critics of Discrimination

1. Mainstream Critics and the Burden of Inherited Ideas    
2. Labour and the Left

PART FOUR: Anglo-Saxon Guardianship

1. Anglo-Saxon Guardianship

Conclusion