| Description |
1 online resource (384 pages) |
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Trade Unions Past, Present and Future ; Volume 23 |
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Trade unions past, present and future ; 23
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| Contents |
Cover; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction; 1.1 'If one were to write a labour and business history of postwar Italian Toronto'; 1.2 Research hypotheses; 1.3 Sources, methodology and structure; Chapter 2 Post-World War II Toronto: a favourable yet contradictory setting for Italian newcomers; 2.1 Toronto 'the Good'; 2.2 Social changes, demographic trends, economic prosperity and governance strategies in post-WWII Toronto; 2.3 Building the 'vertical mosaic' of the multicultural Canada; 2.4 The ethnic mosaic of post-WWII multicultural Toronto; 2.5 Appendix |
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6.1 Challenging the exploitation: attempts at unionization in the 1950s6.2 Italian workers organize themselves: the Brandon Union Group; 6.3 'Canadian wages, Canadian hours!' The turning point of the 1960 strike; 6.4 The 1961 strike and the Goldenberg Commission; Chapter 7 The 'Italian Way'. Unionization and class conflicts in the 1960s and the 1970s; 7.1 The end of the Brandon Union Group and the 'normalization' of Italian unionism (1962-1963); 7.2 The Industrial Standards Act campaign (1963): a new union strategy; 7.3 The 'concrete forming campaign' and the 'union wars' (1965-1973) |
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7.4 Portraits of industrial relations in an ethnic nicheChapter 8 Structure vs identity? An overview of the literature and theoretical frameworks; 8.1 Urban market economies and immigrants in North America: the key issues; 8.2 Culture vs economics? The origins of economic ethnic niches; 8.3 Migrant workers and unionization; 8.4 Ethnicity, class and 'niching'. An interpretative hypothesis; Conclusions; Archives and Libraries; Bibliography; Index |
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Chapter 3 The Italian Community3.1 The origins of the community before WWII: from a community of male sojourners to a permanent settlement; 3.2 The 'Italian invasion' of post-WWII Toronto: the 'ordering in bulk' system and migration chains; 3.3 From peasants to urban wage earners in ethnic niches; 3.4 Appendix; Chapter 4 Italians in Toronto: a successful history?; 4.1 Becoming Italians in Toronto: networking, class and gender; 4.2 'Italians help Italians': the Canadian welfare state, the communitarian welfare system, and political militancy; 4.3 From downtown to the suburbs |
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Chapter 5 The Italian niche: the 'jungle' of the construction industry5.1 'You know, Italians build houses'. Opportunities and barriers at the beginning of the Italian niche; 5.2 Exploited workers and Italian contractors in the 'jungle' of an ethnic-capitalist labour market; 5.3 'A shovel, a truck, two or three paesani'. Artisans, workers or entrepreneurs? Italian contractors and employers; 5.4 A glocal interpretation of the origins of an economic ethnic niche; 5.5 Appendix; Chapter 6 Sciopero! The processes of unionization and the 1960-1961 strikes |
| Summary |
After World War II, hundreds of thousands of Italians emigrated to Toronto. This book describes their labour, business, social and cultural history as they settled in their new home. It addresses fundamental issues that impacted both them and the city, including ethnic economic niching, unionization, urban proletarianization and migrants' entrepreneurship. In addressing these issues the book focuses on the role played by a specific economic sector in enabling immigrants to find their place in their new host society |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Housing policy -- Great Britain.
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Housing policy.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
3035306184 (electronic bk.) |
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9783035306187 (electronic bk.) |
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