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La société québécoise a été transformée grâce à la mise en oeuvre de politiques inspirées de valeurs sociales-démocrates, lesquelles se sont affirmées bien en deçà de la Révolution tranquille. Parmi les organisations mises sur pied, il y a le Conseil des métiers et du travail de Montréal (CMTM), l'ancêtre du Conseil régional FTQ Montréal métropolitain. Fondé en 1897, il est rapidement devenu le plus important forum débattant des enjeux politiques de la société civile au Québec. Les nombreux syndicats qui lui sont affiliés discutent certes des questions du travail, mais également d'un vaste éventail de sujets allant de la démocratie politique avec le droit de vote des femmes et l'abolition du cens électoral, à la démocratisation de l'éducation, à la nationalisation des entreprises de services publics et à la mise en place d'un filet de sécurité sociale. -- Résumé de l'éditeur.
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Notre étude porte sur une période plus longue que les travaux de recherche dont on peut disposer sur les salaires réels au Québec. En effet, nous examinons l’évolution des salaires depuis la Deuxième Guerre mondiale jusqu’à 2018 en distinguant deux périodes : 1940-1977 et 1978-2018. La première est marquée par une augmentation substantielle de la rémunération moyenne des salariés alors que la deuxième voit leurs salaires nominaux croitre à peu près au même rythme que les prix à la consommation. La comparaison entre ces deux périodes permet de mettre en relief les facteurs qui sont à l’origine d’une évolution aussi différenciée.
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The dissertation represents the first attempt to construct a narrative about the Young Communist League of Canada (founded in 1923) during the inter-war period, so far absent in existing research on Canadian communism or socialism. The thesis focuses on the evolution of the relationship between the Young Communist League (YCL) and the Communist International and Young Communist International where Soviet Communists played a predominant role. It sheds light on numerous minor and major changes of policy shaped by the national and international contexts in which these organisations had to act. The dissertation argues that despite genuine enthusiasm toward the International’s line and the Soviet experience, Young Canadian Communists often found it difficult to implement the International’s directives in Canada. Neither the International nor the communist movement in Canada was monolithic. On the contrary, there appear to have been numerous conflicts on three levels: between the International and the League; between the League and the Communist Party of Canada; and between local or linguistic groups in the League and its national leadership. The state repression of the left during the whole inter-war period, derisory level of funding and membership numbers also impeded the implementation of the International’s policies. At the same time, the International’s weaker levels of control allowed for a certain degree of flexibility and autonomy in the Canadian League’s policies. Following the position of the Young Communist International, the Canadian communist youth placed special emphasis on anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist, and later anti-fascist and anti-Nazi, militancy. However, the League appeared to have acted independently as far as immediate demands of the youth and cultural policies were concerned, especially during the Great Depression era. The League engaged in joint activism with other youth organisations, even when Moscow did not encourage such strategy. The initiatives often came from local grassroots organizers, although Canadian authorities were convinced that Moscow was behind each and every action of the League. In the 1930s in particular the YCL, through a network of social and cultural organisations, gained access to youth of different political orientations – the socialist left, centre-left and even “bourgeois forces.” The YCL’s impact and outreach were further increased by the fact that the organisation’s sympathizers, if not members, belonged to diverse social backgrounds and included not only young workers and farmers but also High School and University students, artists, sportsmen, young white collars, many of them belonging to religious youth groups. For these young people, the YCL was the place that provided Marxist solutions to burning questions of the time such as youth unemployment and absence of welfare, social injustice, growth of fascism and imperialism in Canada and abroad.