Rebel Youth: 1960s Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada
Awards:   Short-listed for The Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association 2015 (Canada)
Author:   Ian Milligan ,  Shelley Olson
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
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9780774826884


Pages:   252
Publication Date:   15 January 2015
Format:   Paperback
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Rebel Youth: 1960s Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada


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  • Short-listed for The Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association 2015 (Canada)

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Author:   Ian Milligan ,  Shelley Olson
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.380kg
ISBN:  

9780774826884


ISBN 10:   0774826886
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   15 January 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of 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

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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. -- James Pitsula, author of New World Dawning: The Sixties at Regina Campus


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. -- James Pitsula, author of New World Dawning: The Sixties at Regina Campus ...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. -- Kevin Brushett, Royal Military College of Canada * British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 29 No. 2, Fall 2016 *


...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. -- Kevin Brushett, Royal Military College of Canada British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 29 No. 2, Fall 2016 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN > 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. -- James Pitsula, author of New World Dawning: The Sixties at Regina Campus


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

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