Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables vii
4. Acknowledgments x
5. Introduction: Where Is the Class in Canadian Politics? 1
6. PART 1 POLITICAL SCIENCE, CAPITALISM, AND THE WORKING CLASS
7. 1 Is Class Political? Challenges to Studying the Working Class and Politics in Canada 31
8. 2 Beyond the Blue-Collar Vote: Non-Enfranchised Labour and Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program 53
9. Part 2 POLITICAL PARTIES AND THE WORKING CLASS
10. 3 Working-Class Descriptive Representation in Canada’s Federal Parties 81
11. 4 The New Democratic Party’s Protean Relationship with the Working Class 106
12. 5 Electoral Coalitions and the Working Class: The Case of the Liberal Party 132
13. 6 Blue-Collar Tories: Symbolism, Populism, and Economic Nationalism on the Contemporary Canadian Right 158
14. PART 3 VOTING BEHAVIOUR AND THE WORKING CLASS
15. 7 The Long and Short View of Working-Class Voting in Canada 185
16. 8 Gender, Class, and Voting Behaviour 212
17. 9 Does Quebec Nationalism Crowd Out Class Politics? 239
18. PART 4 DEMOCRACY AND THE WORKING CLASS
19. 10 Participation (In)equalities: A Portrait of Canadians’ Political Participation 265
20. 11 Democratic Innovations and the Working Class 290
21. Conclusion: The Working Class and Politics in Canada 316
22. Contributors 323
23. Index 326