Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection

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Union Organizing in the Canadian Banking Industry, 1940–1980

Year: 2016, 2016

Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection

Name(s): Creator (cre): Smith, Julia, Thesis advisor (ths): Sangster, Joan, Degree committee member (dgc): Palmer, Bryan, Degree committee member (dgc): Warksett, Rosemary, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University

Abstract: <p>In this dissertation, I examine union organizing in the Canadian banking industry between 1940 and 1980. By demonstrating that bank workers consistently sought to unionize throughout the twentieth century, I challenge claims that bank employees and other private sector white-collar workers have low rates of unionization because they are not interested in unions or suffer from false… more

Not In Their Classrooms: Class Struggle and Union Strength In Ontario's Elementary Teachers' Unions, 1970-1998

Year: 2013, 2013

Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection

Name(s): Creator (cre): Hanson, Andy Bruce, Thesis advisor (ths): Palmer, Bryan, Degree committee member (dgc): Sears, Alan, Degree committee member (dgc): Pendleton Jimenez, Karleen, Degree committee member (dgc): Warskett, Rosemary, Degree committee member (dgc): Hobbs, Marg, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University

Abstract: <p>This dissertation examines the rise of teachers' union militancy in Ontario through a case study of the Federation of Women Teachers' Associations of Ontario (FWTAO) and the Ontario Public School Teachers' Federation (OPSTF) between 1970 and their amalgamation into the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario (ETFO) in 1998. It uses the archival records of the two… more