Labouring Canada: Class, Gender, and Race in Canadian Working-Class History

Contents: Part I: Aboriginal Peoples and Class Formation. Unfair Masters and Rascally Servants: Relations Among Bourgeois, Clerks, and Voyageurs in the Montreal Fur Trade Carolyn Podruchny -- After the Fur Trade: The Aboriginal Labouring Class of British Columbia, 1849-1900 / John Lutz. Part II: Immigrant Settlers and the Tensions of Class Formation. From Haute Cuisine to Ox Roasts: Feasting and the Negotiation of Class in Mid-19th Century Saint John and Halifax / Bonnie Huskins -- Class Conflict on the Canals of Upper Canada in the 1840s / Ruth Bleasdale. Part III: 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 / Bettina Bradbury -- 'The Other Side': The Rhetoric of Labour Reform / Christina Burr -- The Bonds of Unity: The Knights of Labor in Ontario, 1880-1900 / Gregory S. Kealey and Bryan D. Palmer. Part IV: Radicals and Union Struggles in Industrializing Canada -- Rallying Round the Standard in British Columbia / Mark Leier -- The Workers' Revolt / Craig Heron -- The Plight of the Working Girl / Janice Newton. Part V: 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 / Sarah-Jane (Saje) Mathieu -- 'The best men that ever worked the lumber': Aboriginal Longshoremen on Burrard Inlet, 1863-1939 / Andrew Parnaby. Part VI: The Depression Decade. 'Starve, Be Damned!': Communists and Canada's Urban Unemployed / John Manley -- Working for Pay and Managing the Household Finances / Denyse Baillargeon. Part VII: Workplace and Welfare, 1920-1960. The Softball Solution: Female Workers, Male Managers, and the Operation of Paternalism at Westclox, 1923-1960 / Joan Sangster -- Race, Employment Discrimination, and State Complicity in Wartime Canada, 1939-1945 / Carmela Patrias -- Teamwork for Harmony: Labour-Management Production Committees and the Post-War Settlement in Canada / Peter McInnis. Part VIII: Managing the Marginal. Managing the Marginal: Regulating and Negotiating Decency in Vancouver's Beer Parlours / Robert Campbell -- Bumping and Grinding on the Line: Making Nudity Pay / Becki L. Ross. Part IX: The Changing Face of Class Struggle in the Post-War Period. Parents, Pupils, and the Montreal Teachers' Strike of 1949 / Magdalena Fahrni -- Becoming Union Wise, 1950-1963 / Pamela Sugiman -- Trade Unions and the Welfare State in Canada, 1945-1990 / Alvin Finkel. Part X: The 1960s and the Legacies of Conflict. Wildcat Workers in the 1960s: The Unruly Face of Class Struggle / Bryan D. Palmer -- The Quebec Labour Movement and Quebec Sovereigntism, 1960-2000 / Ralph P. Guntzel -- From 'Mothers of the Nation' to Migrant Workers / Sedef Arat-Koç. Part XI: The State of the Unions. Towards Permanent Exceptionalism: Coercion and Consent in Canadian Industrial Relations / Leo Panitch and Donald Swartz -- Neoliberalism and Working-Class Resistance in British Columiba: The Hospital Employees' Union Struggle, 2002-2004 / David Camfield -- Race,Class and the Making of Difference: The Social Organization of 'Migrant Workers' in Canada / Nadita Rani Sharma.