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Breaking Away: The Formation of the Canadian Auto Workers

Studies in Political Economy

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Title Breaking Away: The Formation of the Canadian Auto Workers
 
Creator Gindin, Sam
 
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Description The decision of the Canadian section of the United Auto Workers (UAW) to form its own Canadian union was rooted in the different responses of unionists in the Canada and the United States to an increasing belligerence on the part of the corporations. While this break from an 'international' union was not the first such action within the Canadian labour movement, it was perhaps the most dramatic and certainly the most significant.
 
Publisher Studies in Political Economy
 
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Date 2010-05-25
 
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Identifier http://spe.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/spe/article/view/13171
 
Source Studies in Political Economy; Vol 29 (1989): Perestroika
1918-7033
0707-8552
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://spe.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/spe/article/view/13171/10055
 
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