Rebel Youth: 1960S Labour Unrest, Young Workers, and New Leftists in English Canada

During the "long sixties," baby boomers raised on democratic postwar ideals demanded a more egalitarian society for all. While a few became vocal leaders at universities across Canada, nearly 90% of Canada's young people went straight to work after high school. There, they brought the anti-authoritarian spirit of the youth revolt to the labour movement. While university-based activists combined youth culture with a new brand of radicalism to form the New Left, young workers were defying their aging union leaders in a wave of renewed militancy. In *Rebel Youth,* Ian Milligan looks at these converging currents, demonstrating convincingly how they were part of the same youth phenomenon.