TY - JOUR
KW - Dresden
KW - Labour movements
KW - Jews
AU - Ross Lambertson
AB - Uses a case study of Dresden, Ontario, to explore how organized labor, particularly the Jewish Labour Committee, contributed to the development of human rights values and antidiscrimination law in the immediate postwar period. Dresden was infamous for its treatment of blacks. When a number of organizations (including labor groups) lobbied the Ontario government to create Canada's first Fair Accommodation Practices Act, they pointed to Dresden as an example of why this legislation was necessary. After the legislation was passed, they used litigation to ensure that discrimination in Dresden would come to an end. This article demonstrates that although the trade union movement in Canada was not free from racism, it nevertheless played an important and underappreciated role in fighting for human rights. [J]
BT - Labour / Le Travail
C7 - Unknown(0)
ID - 484
IS - 47
LA - English
M1 - Journal Article
M3 - Print(0)
PY - 2001
SN - 07003862
SP - 43
EP - 82
EP - 
T1 - The Dresden Story: Racism, Human Rights, and the Jewish Labour Committee of Canada
T2 - Labour / Le Travail
ER -