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Unions in Court

Organized Labour and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms

by Larry Savage and Charles Smith

Published by: UBC Press

Series: Law and Society

Imprint: UBC Press

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9780774835404
Published: April 2017

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9780774835411
Published: June 2017

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Scholars with an interest in contemporary labour relations, labour law, and the discourse of rights, as well as labour movements, will find this book useful and interesting.

Introduction: Law, Workers, and Courts

1 Labour Rights in the Pre-Charter Era

2 Disorganized Labour and the Charter of Rights

3 Canadian Labour and the First Era of Charter Challenges

4 A Legal Response to Neoliberalism

5 The Possibilities and Limitations of Constitutional Labour Rights

6 A New Era of Constitutional Labour Rights

Conclusion: Which Way Forward?

Notes; References; Index

Larry Savage is director of the Centre for Labour Studies at Brock University and a former member of the Executive Council of the Ontario Federation of Labour. He has authored and edited multiple books on labour and politics.

Charles W. Smith is an associate professor of political studies at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan and coeditor of Labour/Le Travail: Journal of Canadian Labour Studies. He has authored several articles on labour and the law in addition to editing a book on Canadian provincial politics.

"Larry Savage and Charles Smith in Unions in Court: Organized Labour and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms provide a lively and illuminating account of the evolution of Canadian labour law[…]"
~Braham Dabscheck, Industrial Relations / Relations industrielles

Unions in Court is a key account of a vital piece of Canadian history and is a must-read for anyone involved in labour law. It should find its way into public, academic, courthouse, and government libraries, and, of course, the collection of any private firm with a labour department. ~Ken Fox, Reference Librarian, Law Society of Saskatchewan Library, Canadian Law Library Review