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Labour Rights In An Interregnum: The Ambiguous Legacy Of J.S. Woodsworth, Eric Tucker
Labour Rights In An Interregnum: The Ambiguous Legacy Of J.S. Woodsworth, Eric Tucker
Eric M. Tucker
J.S. Woodsworth was a prominent Canadian socialist who was a member of the Canadian Parliament from 1921 to 1942 and a founder of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), the predecessor of the present New Democratic Party (NDP). This paper uses a Gramscian framework to explore his promotion of labour rights in the inter-war years, which I argue was an interregnum, a period when the hegemony of the old order was weakened. In this period, counter-hegemonic projects were launched to challenge the old order but, at the same time, so too were liberal passive revolutionary projects that aimed to restore the …
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: Worker Participation In Health And Safety Regulation In Ontario, 1970-2000, Eric Tucker, Robert Storey
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: Worker Participation In Health And Safety Regulation In Ontario, 1970-2000, Eric Tucker, Robert Storey
Eric M. Tucker
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