Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 1 of 1
Full-Text Articles in Law
The Freedom To Strike In Canada: A Brief Legal History, Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker
The Freedom To Strike In Canada: A Brief Legal History, Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker
Eric M. Tucker
This paper looks at the "deep roots" of striking as a social practice in Canada, by providing an analytic framework for approaching the history of the right to strike, and then sketching the contours of that history. Focusing on the three key worker freedoms - to associate, to bargain collectively, and to strike - the authors trace the jural relations between workers, employers and the state through four successive regimes of industrial legality in Canada: master and servant; liberal voluntarism; industrial voluntarism; and industrial pluralism, the latter marked by the adoption of the Wagner Act model. On the basis of …