Immigration and Labour: Australia and Canada Compared

Having a Clean Up? Deporting Lunatic Migrants from Western Australia, 1924-1939

“…Also, the role of deportation in managing New Zealand's asylum populations is not discussed. 18 There are marked parallels between Canadian and Australian immigration policies and practices in this period, which have been outlined by Iacovetta et al, 19 and Coleborne has also recently noted the similarity between Australian and Canadian colonial administration of lunacy. 20 Barbara Roberts has comprehensively examined Canadian deportation policy and practice in this period, 21 and Menzies has specifically examined the historical deportation of insane and 'feebleminded' migrants from British Columbia.…”

The Development of Managerial Culture

“…"The Kingston Scots had no time for the Anglican snobs in Toronto," Donaldson notes, "but the town was loyal to the Crown in a way that only a town threatened by repeated Yankee raids from across Lake Ontario could be." 194 Indeed, loyalty to the British Crown ensured a separation from postrevolutionary America.…”

“…While they were overrepresented among the urban poor and, according to jail registers, as fighters in riots, many Irish Catholic workers found their niche, in the case of women, in domestic service, and, in the case of men, manual labor jobs like dock work, carting, and heavy construction. 194 Whether due to English Canadian anti-Catholicism or OrangeGreen disputes between Irish Protestants and Irish Catholics, there was significant Irish Catholic rebelliousness evident. Citing a number of studies, Iacovetta et al observes that Irish Catholic men gained the greatest notoriety for their collective violence when massed as navvies on large-scale construction projects, particularly during the great canal-building era of the 1840s in central Canada.…”

“…Perhaps in doing so, more specific "management styles" that link to ethnocultural background might be found. social control, Irish in Canada, 283 Social Democratic Federation (SDF), 193n168 social equality, 26,195,197,241 social harmony,109 socialism,166 Australia, 253 Australian Labor Party (ALP), 158 Canada,182,[191][192][193][194][195][196][197][198][199][200][201]162 Marxist brand of, Problems of an Industrial Civilization (Mayo), 159 social rebels, 68 social welfare, 40,166,176,209,244,246 Australia, 257, 265, 267-8 Canada, 234-7, 250, 261, 262-3, 265 Stynes, Jim, 48 Suez Crisis (1956), 52 Sydney, Irishtown, 172 symbols, 20 syndicalism, 197 tall-poppy syndrome, 34, 37, 44, 126, 127 Taylor, Charles, 185 Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 151 Taylorism, 151 Telecom Australia, 124-6, 126 Telstra, 124 Therry, Father John Joseph, 109, 134 Thompson, David, 86 Thompson, Elaine, 168 time clock, 156-8 tolerance of power, 36 tolerance of status, Peter,13 Toronto Trades Assembly,244 Toryism British,in Canada,152 Canada,198 collectivism, …”

Chipping Away at the Fortress: Unions, Immigration and the Transnational Labour Market

“…6. In the context of the Australian and Canadian examples, these issues are discussed for example in Quinlan andLever-Tracy (1988a, 1988b), and Iocavetta et al (1996). 7.…”