Jobs and justice : fighting discrimination in wartime Canada, 1939-1945

Patrias, Carmela 1950- (Author).

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781442611283 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9781442642362 (bound)
ISBN: 144264236X (bound)
ISBN: 1442611286 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
x, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-239) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

pt. One Invidious Distinctions -- 1. Employment Discrimination and State Complicity -- pt. Two Discrimination Is Sabotage: Minority Accommodation, Protest, and Resistance -- 2. Jews -- 3. Other Racialized Citizens -- 4. Disenfranchised -- pt. Three Ambivalent Allies: Anglo-Saxon Critics of Discrimination -- 5. Mainstream Critics and the Burden of Inherited Ideas -- 6. Labour and the Left -- pt. Four Anglo-Saxon Guardianship -- 7. Anglo-Saxon Guardianship.