Jobs and Justice: Fighting Discrimination in Wartime Canada, 1939-1945

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Despite acute labour shortages during the Second World War, Canadian employers--with the complicity of state officials--discriminated against workers of African, Asian, and Eastern and Southern European origin, excluding them from both white collar and skilled jobs. Jobs and Justice argues that, while the war intensified hostility and suspicion toward minority workers, the urgent need for their contributions and the egalitarian rhetoric used to...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:144264236X

ISBN13:9781442642362

Release Date:March 2012

Publisher:University of Toronto Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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