Sympathy for the teacher: Labour law and transgressive workers’ collective action in British Columbia, 2005

Sympathy for the teacher: Labour law and transgressive workers’ collective action in British Columbia, 2005

Since the 1940s, unions in Canada have been shaped by a distinctive mode of legal and administrative regulation, one of whose features is the prohibition of sympathy strikes. In October 2005, the British Columbia Teachers Federation struck and, unusually, was supported by sympathy strike action. Thi...

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Published in:Capital & class 2009-09, Vol.33 (3), p.81-107
Main Author: Camfield, David
Format: Article
Language:eng
Subjects:
Administrative law
Capitalism
Collective action
Labor
Labor law
Labor unions
Law
Management
Political power
Power
Prohibition
Regulation
Social classes
State power
Strikes
Sympathy
Teachers
Working class
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Summary:Since the 1940s, unions in Canada have been shaped by a distinctive mode of legal and administrative regulation, one of whose features is the prohibition of sympathy strikes. In October 2005, the British Columbia Teachers Federation struck and, unusually, was supported by sympathy strike action. This article conceptualises Canadian labour law theoretically in terms of the political administration of society by capitalist state power and then examines the sympathy strikes, the conditions that made them possible, and their effects, significance and implications for the working-class movement in Canada and beyond.
ISSN:0309-8168
2041-0980