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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Milligan, Ian, 1983-, author. Rebel youth.: Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, 2014. (CaOONL)20149007191 |
Material Type: | Document |
Document Type: | Book, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ian Milligan |
ISBN: | 9780774826877 0774826878 9780774826884 0774826886 0774826908 9780774826907 9781306924795 1306924790 |
OCLC Number: | 865158388 |
Language Note: | Text in English. |
Awards: | Short-listed for The Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association 2015 (Canada) |
Description: | x, 241 pages ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | The Challenge of Rebel Youth -- Punching In, Walking Out : The Challenge of Young Workers -- Say Goodbye to the Working Class? New Leftists Debate Social Change -- Leaving Campus : The Outward-Looking New Left in Ontario, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan -- Cold, Slogging Solidarity : Supporting Labour on Picket Lines in Ontario and Nova Scotia, 1968-72 -- A Relationship Culminates : The 1973 Artistic Woodwork Strike. |
Responsibility: | Ian Milligan. |
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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. -- Kevin Brushett, Royal Military College of Canada * British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 29 No. 2, Fall 2016 * Read more...


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