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Rebel Youth

1960s Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada

by (author) Ian Milligan

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Jul 2014
Category
Social History, General, Post-Confederation (1867-)
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774826877
    Publish Date
    Jul 2014
    List Price
    $90.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774826907
    Publish Date
    Jul 2014
    List Price
    $32.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774826884
    Publish Date
    Jan 2015
    List Price
    $32.95

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Description

During the “long sixties,” baby boomers raised on democratic postwar ideals demanded a more egalitarian society for all. While a few became vocal leaders at universities across Canada, nearly 90% of Canada’s young people went straight to work after high school. There, they brought the anti-authoritarian spirit of the youth revolt to the labour movement. While university-based activists combined youth culture with a new brand of radicalism to form the New Left, young workers were defying their aging union leaders in a wave of renewed militancy. In Rebel Youth, Ian Milligan looks at these converging currents, demonstrating convincingly how they were part of the same youth phenomenon.

About the author

Ian Milligan is associate professor of history at the University of Waterloo.

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Awards

  • Short-listed, The Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association

Editorial Reviews

A highly readable and important work that brings young Canadians who were in the workforce – rather than attending university – into the conversation about what the social and cultural upheavals of the 1960s were all about.

James Pitsula, author of New World Dawning: The Sixties at Regina Campus

...Milligan’s study is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the long sixties, which highlights the diversity and complexity of the era that has heretofore escaped popular memories of it.

British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 29 No. 2, Fall 2016

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