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Author Patrias, Carmela, 1950-

Title Jobs and justice : fighting discrimination in wartime Canada, 1939-1945 / Carmela Patrias.

Publication Info. Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, [2012]
Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2012.
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (x, 249 pages) : illustrations, digital file
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part One Invidious Distinctions. 1 Employment Discrimination and State Complicity -- Part Two Discrimination Is Sabotage: Minority Accommodation, Protest, and Resistance. 2 Jews -- 3 Other Racialized Citizens -- 4 The Disenfranchised -- Part Three Ambivalent Allies: Anglo-Saxon Critics of Discrimination. 5 Mainstream Critics and the Burden of Inherited Ideas -- 6 Labour and the Left -- Part Four Anglo-Saxon Guardianship. 7 Anglo-Saxon Guardianship -- Conclusion.
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.
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Subject Discrimination in employment -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
Discrimination in employment.
Canada.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Discrimination in employment -- Government policy -- Canada.
Discrimination in employment -- Government policy.
Minorities -- Employment -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
Minorities -- Employment.
Minorities -- Civil rights -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
Minorities -- Civil rights.
Racism -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
Racism.
Canada -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Race relations.
Canada -- History -- 1939-1945.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Subject Racism.
Other Form: Print version: Patrias, Carmela. Jobs and Justice : Fighting Discrimination in Wartime Canada, 1939-1945. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2000 9781442642362
ISBN 9781442693876 (electronic book)
1442693878 (electronic book)
9781442642362
144264236X
9781442611283
1442611286