Labour Before the Law: The Regulation of Workers' Collective Action in Canada, 1900-1948

by Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker

Book Overview

In this groundbreaking study of the relations between workers and the state, Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker examine the legal regulation of workers' collective action from 1900 to 1948. They analyze the strikes, violent confrontations, lockouts, union organizing drives, legislative initiatives, and major judicial decisions that transformed the labour relations regime of liberal voluntarism, which prevailed in the later part of the nineteenth century,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195416333
• ISBN13: 9780195416336
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.0"