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Author : Gregory S. Kealey
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0773513558
This collection of twelve essays by Gregory Kealey, will be of great interest to students and scholars of Canadian history, labour history, Marxist and socialist theory and history, and political science.
Author : Jason Russell
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459746046
A deep exploration of the experience of work in Canada Canada, A Working History describes the ways in which work has been performed in Canada from the pre-colonial period to the present day. Work is shaped by a wide array of influences, including gender, class, race, ethnicity, geography, economics, and politics. It can be paid or unpaid, meaningful or alienating, but it is always essential. The work experience led people to form unions, aspire to management roles, pursue education, form professional associations, and seek self-employment. Work is also often in our cultural consciousness: it is pondered in song, lamented in literature, celebrated in film, and preserved for posterity in other forms of art. It has been driven by technological change, governed by laws, and has been the cause of disputes and the means by which people earn a living in Canada’s capitalist economy. Ennobling, rewarding, exhausting, and sometimes frustrating, work has helped define who we are as Canadians.
Author : Craig Heron
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781550285222
The Canadian Labour Movement is a fascinating story that brings to life the working men and women who built Canada's unions. This concise history recounts the story of Canadian labour from the nineteenth century to the present day. First published in 1989, it has been updated to include new developments in the world of labour up to 1995. Heron depicts the major events and trends in labour's history, and assesses the current state and direction of the labour movement. The Canadian Labour Movement is a masterful overview of the subject, providing a broad and accessible introduction to Canadian labour.
Author : Craig Heron
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781459400573
In The Canadian Labour Movement, historian Craig Heron tells the story of Canada's workers from the mid-nineteenth century through to today, painting a vivid picture of key developments such as the birth of craft unionism, the breakthroughs of the fifties and sixties, and the setbacks of the early twenty-first century. This new edition has been completely updated, including a substantial new chapter that covers the period from 1995 to 2011. In this chapter, Heron describes the rise of globalization and the restructuring of the private sector that began in the nineties and continues today. The results have been catastrophic for Canadian working people as plants closed and union activities were curtailed. As the political right succeeded in dominating public debate during this period, workers suffered ever greater losses: fewer and more precarious jobs, rising unemployment, stagnating wages, and increases in poverty. Only with the crash of 2008 and the Occupy Wall Street movement has space for the political left and labour begun to open up once again. The Canadian Labour Movement is the definitive book for anyone who is interested in understanding the origins, achievements, and challenges of labour and social justice movements in Canada.
Author : Craig Heron
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781459415249
In The Canadian Labour Movement, historian Craig Heron and political scientist Charles Smith tell the story of Canada's workers from the midnineteenth century through to today, painting a vivid picture of key developments, such as the birth of craft unionism, the breakthroughs of the fifties and sixties, and the setbacks of the early twenty-first century. The fourth edition of this book has been completely updated with a substantial new chapter that covers the period from the great recession of 2008 through to 2020. In this chapter, Smith describes the fallout of the financial crisis, how Stephen Harper's government restricted labour rights, the rise of the "gig economy" and precarious work, and the continued de-industrialization in the private sector. These pressures contributed to fracturing the movement, as when Unifor, the largest private sector union, split from the Canadian Labour Congress, the established "house of labour." Through it all, rank-and-file union members have fought for better conditions for all workers, including through campaigns like the fight for a $15 minimum wage. The Canadian Labour Movement is the definitive book for anyone interested in understanding the origins, achievements, and challenges of the labour and social justice movements in Canada.
Author : Craig Heron
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487522513
Craig Heron is one of Canada's leading labour historians. Drawing together fifteen of Heron's new and previously published essays on working-class life in Canada, Working Lives covers a wide range of issues, including politics, culture, gender, wage-earning, and union organization. A timely contribution to the evolving field of labour studies in Canada, this cohesive collection of essays analyzes the daily experiences of people working across Canada over more than two hundred years. Honest in its depictions of the historical complexities of daily life, Working Lives raises issues in the writing of Canadian working-class history, especially "working-class realism" and how it is eventually inscribed into Canada's public history. Thoughtfully reflecting on the ways in which workers interact with the past, Heron discusses the important role historians and museums play in remembering the adversity and milestones experienced by Canada's working class.
Author : Alvin Finkel
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781926836584
A political and economic analysis of the history of working people in Alberta.
Author : Craig Heron
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0802080820
A clear, concise portrait of one of the most dramatic moments in the history of working-class life and class relations generally in Canada - the upsurge of working-class protest at the end of the First World War.
Author : Committee on Canadian Labour History
Publisher : St. John's, Nlfd. : Committee on Canadian Labour History & New Hogtown Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015015329231
Author : Craig Heron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Canada
ISBN : OCLC:1011710545
Author : Bryan D. Palmer,Canadian Committee on Labour History
Publisher : St. John's, Nfld. : Canadian Committee on Labour History
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015058252225
This is a collection of commissioned essays that are purposively eclectic, but that address themes of importance in understanding labour's significance and history over the course of the last century, as well as suggesting how labour will inevitably face changing circumstances.
Author : Bryan D. Palmer,Joan Sangster
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : NWU:35556039785589
Labouring Canada: Class, Gender, and Race in Canadian Working-Class History is a collection of 28 classic and contemporary essays exploring the complex interactions of class, gender, and race in the working lives of Canadians from the late eighteenth century to the present. The older classics lay the groundwork for the field of labour history in general, while the more recent contributions focus more specifically on issues of race, class, and gender. The range of topics examined is broad: from class relations in the fur trade, Aboriginal longshoremen in British Columbia, and racial discrimination against CNR porters to the negotiation of class in mid-1800s Nova Scotia, the Montreal teachers' strike of 1949, burlesque workers in 1970s BC, and the nature of the unpaid work performed by women in the home. Designed as a core text for undergraduate courses in labour history, this diverse collection provides an engaging and comprehensive introduction to the field. Readings are organized chronologically and thematically in eleven sections. Each section begins with an introduction that outlines the necessary historical context. Each section introduction includes a list of related resources. All essays have been edited and abridged to make them more accessible to undergraduate readers. Book jacket.
Author : Laurel Sefton MacDowell,Ian Walter Radforth
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781551302980
Canadian Working-Class History: Selected Readings, Third Edition, is an updated version of the bestselling reader that brings together recent and classic scholarship on the history, politics, and social groups of the working class in Canada. Some of the changes readers will find in the new edition include better representation of women scholars and nine provocative and ground-breaking new articles on racism and human rights; women's equality; gender history; Quebec sovereignty; and the environment.
Author : Gregory S. Kealey,Peter Warrian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Labor and laboring classes
ISBN : UCAL:B4398151
Author : Craig Heron,Steven Penfold
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802048868
The Workers' Festival ranges widely into many key themes of labour history - union politics and rivalries, radical movements, religion, race and gender, and consumerism/leisure - as well as cultural history - public celebration/urban procession, urban space and communication, and popular culture.