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Building a Better World, 2nd Edition

An Introduction to Trade Unionism in Canada

by Errol Black and Jim Silver  

Substantially revised and updated, this widely used introductory text emphasizes how values, objectives and activities of unions are shaped in the face of employer resistance and hostile governments. It includes an analysis of why workers form unions; organization and democracy; collective bargaining and grievances; historical development; and gains unions have achieved for their members and all working people. It also examines the challenges created by rapid economic and technological change, the rise of neoliberalism and the increasingly contingent and acialized character of the labour force.

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  • January 2008
  • ISBN: 9781552662601
  • 202 pages
  • $27.95
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Substantially revised and updated, this widely used introductory text emphasizes how values, objectives and activities of unions are shaped in the face of employer resistance and hostile governments. It includes an analysis of why workers form unions; organization and democracy; collective bargaining and grievances; historical development; and gains unions have achieved for their members and all working people. It also examines the challenges created by rapid economic and technological change, the rise of neoliberalism and the increasingly contingent and acialized character of the labour force.

Labour & Unions

Authors

Errol Black

Errol Black was a professor, activist and city councillor who wrote about politics, economics and labour, including the first two editions of Building a Better World.

Jim Silver

Jim Silver is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Winnipeg who has written extensively on poverty and related issues, including public housing and low-income rental housing, community development and education, adult education, and Indigenous street gangs. He is a founding member of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives–Manitoba and played a key role in the establishment of Merchants Corner, a University of Winnipeg off-campus site in Winnipeg’s low-income and racialized North End.

Contents

  • Introduction
  • Workplace Citizenship: Union Roles and Structures
  • Acting for Members, Acting for Society
  • Creative Organizing and Determined Militancy: A Brief History of Trade Unions in Canada
  • Acting Politically
  • Facing the Twenty-First Century

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