Article: From Plant to Politics: The Autoworkers Union in Postwar Canada.(Brief Article)

With labor-backed NDP governments in Ontario, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan, more than a third of its work force in unions, and such social benefits as universal prepaid health care and old-age security, Canada may look like a Swedish-style exception to American exceptionalism. Professor Yates disagrees. With the Canadian branch of the UAW as her test case, she argues that Canadian labor was as "Fordist" as its U.S. neighbors. For most of its life, the UAW in Canada agreed that corporations could manage their economy in return for delivering a consumerist affluence. Only when the 1981-82 recession shattered the "Fordist" compromise, claims Yates, did Canadian ...

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