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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 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. --Publisher's description. 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.

OCLC: 178990995