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OverviewDuring 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ian MilliganPublisher: University of British Columbia Press Imprint: University of British Columbia Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.500kg ISBN: 9780774826877ISBN 10: 0774826878 Pages: 252 Publication Date: 22 July 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 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 IndexReviewsA 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 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 Author InformationIan Milligan is an assistant professor of Canadian and digital history at the University of Waterloo. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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