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

Promotional Information

A pioneering study of Canadian labour leaders’ approach to immigration from the 1870s to the Great Depression.

About the Author

David Goutor is a Canadian historian and an assistant professor in the Labour Studies Programme at McMaster University.

Reviews

David Goutor skilfully explores the meanings and consequences of organized labour’s opposition to wholesale recruitment of labour abroad and to different streams of immigration ... Goutor’s most significant contribution is to explore the relationship between labour’s attitudes to immigration and its ability to develop as an effective political force.
*BC Studies, No. 155, Autumn 2007*