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Footnote 21

RWDSU Record, 24 (12), December, 1977, p. 4; 25 (5), May June, 1978, p. 12; 25 (9), September, 1978, p. 4; 26 (4), April, 1979, p. 12; 28 (6), June, 1981, p. 6; 28 (9), October, 1981, p. 11. One…

Footnote 117

RWDSU Record, 8 (13), July 2, 1961, p. 13; 9 (13), July 1, 1962, p. 3; 9 (14), July 15, 1962, p. 4; 9 (15), August 12, 1962, p. 2; 10 (9), May 5, 1963, p. 2; 10 (11), June…

Footnote 60

RWDSU Record, 6 (3), February 15, 1959, p. 15; 6 (7), April 12, 1959, p. 15; 6 (23), December 6, 1959, p. 15; 6 (24), December 20, 1959, p. 15; 7 (2), January 31, 1960, p. 15; 7 (5), March…

Footnote 30

Calculated from Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, AFL-CIO-CLC, Canadian District Council. Moncton, New Brunswick, October 29-30, 1979 (mimeo); and from CALURA. The 17 per cent figure is based on 115 of the…

Footnote 79

RWDSU Record, 3 (23), December 9, 1956, p. 14. See also RWDSU Record, 2 (5), March 20, 1955, p. 14; 2 (11), June 12, 1955, p. 15; 3 (20), October 28, 1956, p. 15; 5 (1), January 19, 1958, p.…

Footnote 116

RWDSU Record, 10 (5), March 10, 1963, p. 8. During the 1950s, the RWDSU at Dominion Stores had negotiated lower pay raises for women than for men. See RWDSU Record, 5 (23), December 7, 1958, p. 8; 6 (15), August…

Footnote 27

The most rapid gains made by women among the Canadian membership were during the 1960s when their proportion increased from 26.1 per cent in 1962 to 32.7 per cent in 1969; between 1969 and 1982, women increased only from 32.7…

IV. EMERGENT FEMINISM

Previous | Table of Contents | Title Page and Abstract | EJS Home Page (89) By the late 1960s and early 1970s, depending on the issue, there was a type of feminism emerging within the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store…

Footnote 112

RWDSU Record, 21 (3), March, 1974, p. 16; 21 (8), August, 1974, p. 10; 21 (12), December, 1974, p. 16; 22 (10), October, 1975, p. 16; 23 (10), October, 1976, p. 13; 23 (11), November, 1976, p. 5; 25 (2),…

III. History of Patriarchal Unionism

Next | Previous | Table of Contents | Title Page and Abstract | EJS Home Page (18) During the 1950s and 1960s, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union practised what would today be considered an extreme form of patriarchy.…