Edited by Brian D. Palmer and Joan Sangster
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 with workers
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.
Part I: Aboriginal Peoples and Class Formation
Carolyn Podruchny: Unfair Masters and Rascally Servants: Relations Among Bourgeois, Clerks, and Voyageurs in the Montreal Fur Trade
John Lutz: After the Fur Trade: The Aboriginal Labouring Class of British Columbia,
1849-1900
Part II: Immigrant Settlers and the Tensions of Class Formation
Bonnie Huskins: From Haute Cuisine to Ox Roasts: Feasting and the Negotiation of Class in Mid-19th Century Saint John and Halifax
Ruth Bleasdale: Class Conflict on the Canals of Upper Canada in the
1840s
Part III: Industrializing Canada: Waged Work, Everyday Life, and Class Mobilization, 1860-1900
Bettina Bradbury: Gender at Work at Home: Family Decisions, The Labour Market, and Girls' Contributions to the Family Economy
Christina Burr: 'The Other Side': The Rhetoric of
Labour Reform
Gregory S. Kealey and Bryan D. Palmer: The Bonds of Unity: The Knights of Labor in Ontario, 1880-1900
Part IV: Radicals and Union Struggles in Industrializing Canada
Mark Leier: Rallying Round the Standard in British Columbia
Craig Heron: The Workers'
Revolt
Janice Newton: The Plight of the Working Girl
Part V: Capitalist Canada Consolidated and the weight of Special Oppression, 1880-1939
Sarah-Jane (Saje) Mathieu: North of the Colour Line: Sleeping Car Porters and the Battle Against Jim Crow on Canadian Rails,
1880-1920
Andrew Parnaby: 'The best men that ever worked the lumber': Aboriginal Longshoremen on Burrard Inlet, 1863-1939
Part VI: The Depression Decade
John Manley: 'Starve, Be Damned!': Communists and Canada's Urban Unemployed
Denyse Baillargeon: Working for Pay and
Managing the Household Finances
Part VII: Workplace and Welfare, 1920-1960
Joan Sangster: The Softball Solution: Female Workers, Male Managers, and the Operation of Paternalism at Westclox, 1923-1960
Carmela Patrias: Race, Employment Discrimination, and State Complicity in
Wartime Canada, 1939-1945
Peter McInnis: Teamwork for Harmony: Labour-Management Production Committees and the Post-War Settlement in Canada
Part VIII: Managing the Marginal
Robert Campbell: Managing the Marginal: Regulating and Negotiating Decency in Vancouver's Beer
Parlours
Becki L. Ross: Bumping and Grinding on the Line: Making Nudity Pay
Part IX: The Changing Face of Class Struggle in the Post-War Period
Magdalena Fahrni: Parents, Pupils, and the Montreal Teachers' Strike of 1949
Pamela Sugiman: Becoming Union Wise,
1950-1963
Alvin Finkel: Trade Unions and the Welfare State in Canada, 1945-1990
Part X: The 1960s and the Legacies of Conflict
Bryan D. Palmer: Wildcat Workers in the 1960s: The Unruly Face of Class Struggle
Ralph P. Guntzel: The Quebec Labour Movement and Quebec
Sovereigntism, 1960-2000
Sedef Arat-Koç: From 'Mothers of the Nation' to Migrant Workers
Part XI: The State of the Unions
Leo Panitch and Donald Swartz: Towards Permanent Exceptionalism: Coercion and Consent in Canadian Industrial Relations
David Camfield: Neoliberalism and
Working-Class Resistance in British Columiba: The Hospital Employees' Union Struggle, 2002-2004
Nadita Rani Sharma: Race,Class and the Making of Difference: The Social Organization of 'Migrant Workers' in Canada
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Brian D. Palmer is the Canada Research Chair in Canadian Labour History and Canadian Studies at Trent University. Joan Sangster is a Professor in the Department of History and is the Director of the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Native Studies at Trent University.
A History of the Canadian Peoples - J. M. Bumsted
A Concise History of Canada's First Nations - Olive Patricia Dickason and adapted by Moira Calder
Rethinking Canada - Edited by Mona Gleason and Adele Perry
Home, Work, and Play - James Opp and John C. Walsh
Making Sense - Margot Northey and Joan McKibbin
Writing History - William Kelleher Storey and Towser Jones
