Preface to the Third Edition
Part One: From the Era of Consent to the Era of Coercion
1. Introduction
2. The Post-War Era of Free Collective Bargaining
3. Permanent Exceptionalism: The Turn to Coercion in the 1970s
Part Two: The Consolidation of Coercion in the 1980s
4. The Right to Strike: Freedom of Association and the Charter
5. The Mulroney Years: Freeing Trade, Coercing Labour
6. Consolidating Coercion in the Provinces
7. The Labour Movement in the New Era
Part Three: Closing the Century: Social Democracy, Neoliberalism and Beyond
8. The Social Contract: Labour and the NDP
9. Neoliberalism, Labour, and the Canadian State
10. Towards a New Strategy for Labour
Appendix I: Tables on Wages, Strikes, and Union Membership
Table I: Decimal Change in Average Annual Real Wages, 1920-2000
Table II: Major Wage Settlements in Canada by Sector, 1980-2001
Table III: Strikes and Lockouts in Canada, 1960-2001
Table IV: Total Union Membership in Canada and the United States, 1940-2002
Appendix II: Legislative Orders Suspending the Right to Strike, 1950-2002
Appendix III: Legislation Amending Trade Unions Rights, 1982-2002
Glossary
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