Milligan starts with, perhaps, one of his greatest arguments in the first chapter of his book: young workers and New Leftists in Canada share particular facets of youth culture raised during the post-war period that influenced activism in the 1960’s. With brief information given, he continually insists that the youth came across different experiences based on their class (as well as age, gender, and race), but ironically seemed to form one common anti-authoritarian philosophy. He states, “[t]he shared desire for control and democracy could be seen among youth who went into the workplace. [He believes] we can see evidence of a shared cross-class youth culture” (20). With this intention, Milligan allows the reader to seriously perceive the activism present in the sixties and fully understand that the majority of conflicts at the time were due to the shared youth culture that sprung from the post-war period. …show more content…
This is the main reason there were many internal disputes with senior labour leaders – cultural and political views from generation to generation were drastically changing and these irreconcilable differences led to continual tensions between the two. In my opinion, this argument is a good starting point to understand the exact crisis of this crucial decade, but the section lacks further discussion of this important theory, making it difficult for the average history reader to fully grasp all of its