Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction

2 Canada’s Rights Revolution

3 The Forties and Fifties: The First Generation

4 Social Movement Organizations: A Brief Introduction

5 The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association

6 La Ligue des droits de l’homme

7 The Canadian Civil Liberties Association

8 The Newfoundland-Labrador Human Rights Association

9 Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Promotional Information

Dominique Clement's Canada's Rights Revolution is a major contribution to the historical and sociological literature on human rights in Canada. It is comprehensive, well organized, and makes a persuasive argument about the nature of human rights activism through the framework of social movements theory. -- Brian Howe, author of Restraining Equality: Human Rights Commissions in Canada Rights advocacy is a topic of immense practical and historical significance. Dominique Clement does Canadian researchers a great service with this impressive historical analysis of leading social-movement organizations that have made rights advocacy their stated aim. This is important and original scholarship, to be sure. -- Matt James, author of Misrecognized Materialists: Social Movements in Canadian Constitutional Politics

About the Author

Dominique Clément is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta. His website can be found at www.HistoryOfRights.com.

Reviews

This book is a good introduction to civil liberty and human rights advocacy, and to important issues facing Canadian social movements. It is well suited to upper level undergraduate courses and for those researching and teaching on the history of Canadian mobilization. It also has the potential to spark debate over Canadian SMO dependence on federal government funding.