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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.
Contents
Introduction
1 The Challenge of Rebel Youth
2 Punching In, Walking Out: The Challenge of Young Workers
3 Say Goodbye to the Working Class? New Leftists Debate Social Change
4 Leaving Campus: The Outward-Looking New Left in Ontario, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan
5 Cold, Slogging Solidarity: Supporting Labour on Picket Lines in Ontario and Nova Scotia, 1968-72
6 A Relationship Culminates: The 1973 Artistic Woodwork Strike
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
