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Rebel Youth: 1960s Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada

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Rebel Youth: 1960s Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada

During the "long sixties" - between 1964 and 1973 - baby boomers raised on democratic post-war 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 that swept the country. 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, this book reveals a youth current that, despite regional differences, spanned an intellectual network from Halifax to Victoria that read the same publications, consulted the same thinkers, and found inspiration in the same shared ideas.

Rebel Youth draws important connections between the stories of young workers and the youth movement in Canada, claiming a central place for labour and class in the legacy of this formative decade.

Country	USA
Author	Ian Milligan
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Milligan, Ian
EAN	9780774826884
ISBN	0774826886
Label	UBC Press
Manufacturer	UBC Press
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	252
PublicationDate	2015-02-12
Publisher	UBC Press
Studio	UBC Press
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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