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Guarding the Gates

The Canadian Labour Movement and Immigration, 1872-1934

David Goutor,

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Distributed for University of British Columbia Press

Guarding the Gates

The Canadian Labour Movement and Immigration, 1872-1934

David Goutor,

From the 1870s until the Great Depression, immigration was often the question of the hour in Canada. Politicians, the media, and an array of interest groups viewed it as essential to nation building, developing the economy, and shaping Canada’s social and cultural character. One of the groups most determined to influence public debate and government policy on the issue was organized labour, and unionists were often relentless critics of immigrant recruitment. Guarding the Gates is the first detailed study of Canadian labour leaders’ approach to immigration, a key battleground in struggles between different political factions within the labour movement. This book provides new insights into labour, immigration, social, and political history.

288 pages | © 2007

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Part 1: Issues and Arguments

1 Guarding the Gates

2 Setting the Stage: Labour, Industry, and Immigration in Canada, 1872-1934

Part 2: Labour’s Anti-Asian Agitation

3 The Bounds of Unity: Opposition to Chinese Immigration, 1880-87

4 The “Old Time Question”: The Campaign for Exclusion, 1888-1934

Part 3: Labour and Atlantic Immigration 

5 Superfluous People: Labour’s Construction of Immigrants from Europe and the British Isles

6 Importing Victims: The Assault on the Commerce of Immigration

Part 4: Immigration, Ideology, and Politics

7 Immigration, Joseph Arch, and the Producer Ideology, 1872-79

8 Imported Labour, the Tariff, and Land Reform, 1880-1902

9 Retreat, Corporatism, and Responsible Management, 1903-34

Conclusion

Notes; Bibliography; Index

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