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LABOURING CANADA >CANADIAN<

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ISBN-10: 0195425332

ISBN-13: 9780195425338

Edition: 1st

Authors: PALMER

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This text is a collection of classic and contemporary articles exploring the nature of work in Canadian history from the late eighteenth century to the current day. Class relations and labour form the core of the volume, but attention will also be paid to the state and its relations withworkers both formal and informal. The volume is designed as a core text for classes in Canadian labour/working-class history, taught out of history and labour studies departments.
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List price: $60.43
Edition: 1st
Publisher: OXF CAN
Publication date: 2/1/2008

Introduction
Aboriginal Peoples and Class Formation, 1750-1900
Unfair Masters and Rascally Servants? Labour Relations Among Bourgeois, Clerks, and Voyageurs in the Montreal Fur Trade, 1780-1821
After the Fur Trade: The Aboriginal Labouring Class of British Columbia, 1849-1890
Immigrant Settlers and the Tensions of Class Formation
From Haute Cuisine to Ox Roasts: Public Feasting and the Negotiation of Class in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Saint John and Halifax
Class Conflict on the Canals of Upper Canada in the 1840s
Industrializing Canada: Waged Work, Everyday Life, and Class Mobilization, 1860-1900
Gender at Work at Home: Family Decisions, the Labour Market, and Girls' Contributions to the Family Economy
'The Other Side': The Rhetoric of Labour Reform
The Bonds of Unity: The Knights of Labor in Ontario, 1880-1900
Radicals and Union Struggles in Industrializing Canada, 1900-1925
Monopoly Capitalism and the Rise of Syndicalism: Rallying Round the Standard in British Columbia
The Workers' Revolt, 1917-1925
The Plight of the Working Girl
Capitalist Canada Consolidated and the Weight of Special Oppression, 1880-1939
North of the Colour Line: Sleeping Car Porters and the Battle Against Jim Crow on Canadian Rails, 1880-1920
'The best men that ever worked the lumber': Aboriginal Longshoremen on Burrard Inlet, BC, 1863-1939
The Depression Decade
'Starve, Be Damned!': Communists and Canada's Urban Unemployed, 1929-1939
Working for Pay and Managing the Household Finances
Workplace, Welfare, and World War II, 1920-1960
The Softball Solution: Female Workers, Male Managers, and the Operation of Paternalism at Westclox, 1923-1960
Race, Employment Discrimination, and State Complicity in Wartime Canada, 1939-1945
Teamwork for Harmony: Labour-Management Production Committees and the Post-War Settlement in Canada
Managing the Marginal
Managing the Marginal: Regulating and Negotiating Decency in Vancouver's Beer Parlours, 1925-1954
Bumping and Grinding on the Line: Making Nudity Pay
The Changing Face of Class Struggle in the Post-War Period
Becoming 'Union-Wise', 1950-1963
Parents, Pupils, and the Montreal Teachers' Strike of 1949
Trade Unions and the Welfare State in Canada, 1945-1990
The 1960s and Legacies of Conflict
Wildcat Workers in the 1960s: The Unruly Face of Class Struggle
'Rapprocher les lieux du pouvoir': The Qu�bec Labour Movement and Qu�bec Sovereigntism, 1960-2000
From 'Mothers of the Nation' to Migrant Workers: Immigration Policies and Domestic Workers in Canada
The State of the Unions
Towards Permanent Exceptionalism: Coercion and Consent in Canadian Industrial Relations
Neoliberalism and Working-Class Resistance in British Columbia: The Hospital Employees' Union Struggle, 2002-2004
Race, Class, Gender, and the Making of Difference: The Social Organization of 'Migrant Workers' in Canada
Acknowledgements