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This job very much needed doing, and Dr. Masters has done it in a scholarly, judicial, yet forthright manner. The hysteria engendered by the Winnipeg general strike of 1919, heightened by the singularly unenlightened form that government intervention took, continues to trail clouds of distortion and bitterness. By careful analysis of facts, circumstances, and personalities of the strike leaders, Dr. Masters has cleared away the haze and given us a historical record of the utmost value. --review, Canadian Forum (on book jacket cover)

This book presents a remarkable account of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, written by the workers who organized the strike. Their day-to-day description of events was prepared for pro-labour sympathizers across Canada and to counteract anti-strike accounts carried in the mass. It is a particularly lively and informative description of this landmark events. --Publisher's description

Journalists and poets, economists and political historians, have told the story of Canada's railways, but their accounts pay little attention to the workers who built them. The Bunkhouse Man is the only study devoted to these men and their lives in construction camps; a pioneering work in sociology, it is still the best description of what it was like to be a working man in Canada before the First World War. E.W. Bradwin drew on his own experience as an instructor for Frontier College, working alongside his students during the day and teaching at night, to present this graphic portrait of life in the camps from 1903 to 1914. No detached observer, Bradwin played a vigorous role trying to improve the lot of the men--practicing the sociology of engagement advocated by radical sociologists today. Work camps have existed in Canada from early pioneer times to the 1970s and are unlikely to disappear. In the years of Bradwin's study there were as many as 3,000 large camps employing 200,000 men, 5 per cent of the male labour force. Like the settling of the prairies, these camps are a characteristic Canadian phenomenon, but they have never drawn comparable attention. The republication of The Bunkhouse Man, with an introduction by Jean Burnet, makes available once more a work essential to the exploration of Canada's history and social structure. --Publisher's description

These manifestoes, issued by the Confederation of National Trade Unions, Quebec Federation of Labour, and Quebec Teachers Corporation, represent a new stage in the Quebec independence movement. They are a call to working-class politics. The Quiet Revolution brought the middle class to life. With the appearance of the manifestos, the working class enters Quebec politics as a coherent active force in its own right. -- Editor's introduction

An annotated bibliography of about 290 items ranging from books to articles in popular journals intended as an introductory guide for student research of this topic. Knight's bibliography deals with life and work in the company towns, camps and single enterprise communities of Canada and the U.S. during the last eighty years. Within it, there are economic studies , sociological surveys, local histories, but also memoirs and autobiographies that touch on the daily lives of the primary resource workers whose labour built these countries. --Publisher's description. Contents: Nobody here but us (pages 1-14) -- Work camps and company towns. In B.C. (pages 14-38). In Canada (pages 39-58). In U.S. (pages 59-90).

"This lecture was originally given in a course on 'Contemporary Issues in Economics and Finance' at the University of Toronto Continuing Education Program in Extension, July 1971. It was updated for an economics class at Wellington College, University of Guelph, February 1972. This is the revised text."

Very little has been thought or published about Canada that uses a Marxist critique of capitalism and its dynamics. This book aims to advance such thinking by analysing the reasons for the openness of the dominion to capitalist domination to labour domination from the United States, and to a sell-out policy in regard to its land and farms. Capitalism is the accepted, and so intellectually an almost invisible, way of life in Canada. Very little has been thought or published about Canada that uses a Marxist critique of capitalism and its dynamics, and this book aims to advance such thinking by analysing the reasons for the openness of the dominion to capitalist domination, first by Europeans and then by Americans, to labour domination from the United States, and to a sell-out policy in regard to its land and farms. The dependency of the Canadian ruling class on foreign capitalists is an important factor in Canada’s continued colonial-mindedness, and the rise of nationalism in Quebec is based on the inevitabilities of the class antagonisms set up by capitalism. The authors believe that it is only through such Marxist theory and practice that a way can be found for Canada to escape at last from imperialist exploitation and that a way can be found to shape a socialist future for the whole country. --Publisher's description

This book is a portrait of the people and events of a working-class Toronto neighbourhood under pressure from developers and middle-class renovators. The book is a classic, intimate study of the people of Toronto's East of Parliament neighbourhood in the 1970's, a time when the working-class district came under unprecedented pressure from developers and middle-class gentrification. An unconventional account, Working People combines a wide variety of materials - interviews, economic analysis, songs, jokes, newspaper advertisements, community newspapers, photographs - to present an unparalleled portrait of a changing urban community in depth. Working People remains a fascinating record of a community in transition. --Publisher's description

The company town, source of so much of Canada's wealth, was - and is - a place with nowhere to hide. First published in 1971, Rex Lucas's Minetown, Milltown, Railtown is a groundbreaking study of what it's like to live in such communities. Today, with the oil-sands boom and rising commodity prices affecting everything from the value of the Canadian dollar to the balance of power within Confederation, single-industry towns remain as central as ever to the country's economic and social life. Minetown is a compelling portrait not just of Canada's past, but of its present and future, too. Minetown, Milltown, Railtown: Life in Canadian Communities of Single Industry is a Wynford Book - one of a series of titles representing significant milestones in Canadian literature, thought, and scholarship. New introductions place each book in a modern context and show its continuing relevance. --Publisher's description (Oxford University Press)

Illustrates the need for reform and reinterpretation of the labour laws of Canada, and Manitoba in particular. -- Publisher's description

Table des matières: Introduction -- Cadre théorique -- Hypothèses. Première partie : 1760-1791. 1- Conquête et bourgeoisie française : Qu’est-ce qu’une bourgeoisie ? -- Conquête et bourgeoisie française --Conséquence pour la société française. 2- Conquête et aristocratie cléricale : Conquête et collaboration -- Élaboration de la politique de conciliation -- Opposition anglo-saxonne à la politique de conciliation -- Volonté de collaboration de l’aristocratie cléricale -- Acte de Québec -- Éléments de la collaboration de l’aristocratie cléricale -- Idéologie de la collaboration -- Portée de la conciliation -- Déclin des seigneurs -- Conclusion. 3- Apparition d'une bourgeoisie anglo-saxonne : Économie 1760-1792 -- L’Acte constitutionnel de 1791. 4- Le peuple : Le régime seigneurial -- Peuple et classe collaboratrice -- Conclusion. Deuxième partie : 1792-1815. Introduction. 1- Petite-bourgeoisie professionnelle : Idéologie nouvelle -- Oppositions de classes et de nations -- Conclusion. 2- Aristocratie cléricale. 3- La bourgeoisie marchande canadienne-anglaise : L’économie -- Les fourrures -- L’agriculture -- Le bois -- La guerre -- Aspect socio-politique -- Conclusion. 4- Le peuple : Conclusion. Troisième partie : 1815-1850. Introduction. 1- Société canadienne-française : Les quatre-vingt-douze résolutions -- Composition, groupes et factions -- Idéologie --Lutte de classe et lutte nationale --Le peuple --Londres. 2- Société canadienne-anglaise 1815-1836 : Économie -- Bourgeoisie marchande canadienne-anglaise -- L’union --Lutte et alliance -- Conclusion 1815-1836. 3- Guerre civile et guerre nationale 1837-1838. Rébellions -- Caractère du phénomène -- La marche de l’union 1838-1840. Conclusion générale -- Aspect théorique -- Bibliographie.

Presents an annotated chronology of strikes and lockouts in Quebec from 1843 to 1900. Includes sources.