Year: 2016, 2016
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
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
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