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Article Excerpt
Harnessing Labour Confrontation: Shaping the Postwar Settlement in Canada, 1943-1950 by Peter MCINNIS, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002, 258 pp., ISBN 0-8020-3563-9.
In Harnessing Labour Confrontation, Peter McInnis takes the reader back, once again, to the pivotal years at the close of the Second World War when so much of Canada's industrial relations regime was shaped. He resurveys old ground, but does so with a wealth of research material that encourages the reader to reconsider popular assumptions about the era. While he introduces his book as a study in industrial legality, it is, in fact, a much broader look at the forces that interacted during Canada's conversion from war to peace-time production, showing once again why industrial relations can only be fully understood in terms of political economy.
McInnis documents the debate about Canada's future that took place during the eight years between the strike wave of 1942-3 and the back-to-work legislation of 1950. He employs the concept of "orderly decontrol," showing how those in power relinquished a measure of control in order to remain in control with a regime that brought historically antagonistic forces of labour,...
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