Rebel Youth 1960S Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada
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During 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 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 the same youth phenomenon.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780774826877 |
Publisher: | University of British Columbia Press |
Imprint: | UBCPress |
Pub date: | 22 Jul 2014 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 252 |
Weight: | 500g |
Height: | 229mm |
Width: | 152mm |
Spine width: | 20mm |