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Rebel Youth

1960s Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2014

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

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...Milligan’s study is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the long sixties, which highlights the diversity and complexity of the era that has heretofore escaped popular memories of it. --- 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.

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    Front Matter

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    Contents

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    Acknowledgments

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    Abbreviations

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    Introduction

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    The Challenge of Rebel Youth

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    Punching In, Walking Out: The Challenge of Young Workers

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    Say Goodbye to the Working Class? New Leftists Debate Social Change

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    Leaving Campus: The Outward-Looking New Left in Ontario, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan

    91
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    Cold, Slogging Solidarity: Supporting Labour on Picket Lines in Ontario and Nova Scotia, 1968–72

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    A Relationship Culminates: The 1973 Artistic Woodwork Strike

    150
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    Conclusion

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    Notes

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    Selected Bibliography

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    Index

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9780774826891
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https://doi.org/10.59962/9780774826891
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