From the Environment to the Workplace and Back Again? Occupational Health and Safety Activism in Ontario, 1970s–2000*

This article addresses the issue of alliances between social movements through an investigation into the possibility of a convergence and/or allliance between two of the most enduring social movements in Ontario over the past three decades: the occupational health and safety (OHS) and the environmental movements. Both movements have not only endured, but been successful movements. Presently, however, each movement is fragmented and becalmed. …