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Mark Thomas | Setting the Minimum: Ontario's Employment Standards in the Postwar Years, 1944–1968 | Labour/Le ... |
 | | During the late 19th century, labour and employment law in Canada was shaped by the principles of "liberal voluntarism" — minimal state regulation of the employment relationship, both with respect to unionization and minimum standards. |
 | | This commitment was made in a context of growing labour unrest, the emergence of the federal welfare state, and the regulation of the former by the later through the labour relations legislation of the postwar settlement. |
 | | Canada Department of Labour, "Dominion Legislative Proposals of Canadian Congress of Labour," The Labour Gazette, 42 (March 1942), 291–95; Canada Department of Labour, "Annual Convention of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada," The Labour Gazette, 42 (September 1942), 1040–44. |
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