Shifting Gears

Canadian Autoworkers and the Changing Landscape of Labour Politics

Stephanie Ross, Larry Savage (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

356 Seiten

2025
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
9780774870863 (ISBN)

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In the decades following the Second World War, autoworkers were at the forefront of the labour movement. Their union urged members to rally in the streets and use the ballot box to effect change for all working-class people. But by the turn of this century, the Canadian Auto Workers union had begun to pursue a more defensive political direction. Shifting Gears traces the evolution of CAW strategy from transformational activism to transactional politics. Class-based collective action and social democratic electoral mobilization gave way to transactional partnerships as relationships between the union, employers, and governments were refashioned. This new approach was maintained when the CAW merged with the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union in 2013 to create Unifor, Canada's largest private-sector union. Stephanie Ross and Larry Savage explain how and why the union shifted its political tactics, offering a critical perspective on the current state of working-class politics.

Stephanie Ross is an associate professor in the School of Labour Studies at McMaster University and the founding president of the Canadian Association for Work and Labour Studies. Larry Savage is a professor in the Department of Labour Studies at Brock University. They are the co-authors of Building a Better World: An Introduction to the Labour Movement in Canada and co-editors of Public Sector Unions in the Age of Austerity, Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada, and Labour under Attack: Anti-Unionism in Canada.

1 Shifting Gears: An Introduction

2 In the Driver's Seat: The Birth of the CAW and the Promise of Social Unionism

3 Back-Seat Driver? The CAW as Left Critic, 1988–95

4 Winding Road: Rebuilding the Left, 1995–2003

5 A Fork in the Road: The CAW Turns to Economic and Political Defensiveness, 2003–12

6 Merge Ahead: The Birth of Unifor and the Consolidation of Transactional Politics, 2013–21

7 Head-On Collision: The Fall of Jerry Dias and the Future of Unifor

8 The Road Ahead: Unifor and the Changing Landscape of Working-Class Politics

Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Erscheinungsdatum	08.05.2025
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	520 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Technik
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-13	9780774870863 / 9780774870863
Zustand	Neuware