Andrew Jackson fonds, 1921-2007, n.d.
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Cameron, Chantal
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Fonds contains material acquired and created by Andrew Jackson, especially during the time he worked for the Canadian Labour Congress (1989-2012). Issues covered include women’s rights, aboriginal rights, healthcare, social and economic policy, and the Canadian Constitution (especially the Meech Lake Accord).
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Andrew Jackson was as an economist with the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) for 25 years, from 1989 to 2012. He was born in England in 1952 and moved to Canada in 1965 when his father, John Jackson, was appointed as the first Head of the Department of Geography at Brock University. In 1968 he joined the youth wing of the NDP after being influenced by Mel Swart, a
family friend. Swart later became a highly respected NDP member of the Ontario Parliament. In 1970, Jackson moved to England to study at the London School of Economics, where he received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics and a Master of Science Degree in Political Sociology.
Upon completion of his studies in 1975, he returned to Canada and enrolled in the PhD program in Political Science at the University of British Columbia. In 1979 Jackson took a job with the British Columbia NDP caucus. Five years later, he relocated to Ottawa where his wife had taken a job with the Macdonald Royal Commission. He took a job with the federal NDP
caucus as part of their research team, where he focused on economic and tax issues. He left this job in 1988 to work with the labour branch of the Canadian Labour and Productivity Centre. A year later, he went to work for the Canadian Labour Congress.
His roles with the CLC included Chief Economist and later Director of Social and Economic Policy. Some of the major issues he addressed included the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax; the FTA and NAFTA; regressive tax reform; cuts to Unemployment Insurance and federal transfers to the provinces; public pensions and pensions regulation; and labour market
policy, including training. During his work with the CLC, Jackson continued to be a policy advisor to the NDP caucus. He was also very active with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), writing many studies documenting adverse economic and social trends such as wealth inequality.
Since his retirement, Jackson has had a regular column in the Report on Business section of the Globe and Mail, as well as being a frequent contributor to the blog of the Progressive Economics Forum. He has also written several articles and books on Canadian political and economic issues, including Work and Labour in Canada: Critical Issues (1st ed. 2005); Sick of the System: why the COVID-19 recovery must be revolutionary; and The Fire and the Ashes: rekindling democratic socialism (2021).
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