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Working Class Experience Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991
Palmer, Bryan D. Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, Canada Year Published: 1992 First Published: 1983 Pages: 455pp ISBN: 0-7710-6945-6 Resource Type: Book
From nineteenth-century tavern life to late twentieth-century cinema, from rough canallers and the first stirrings of craft unionism to contemporary public-sector strikes, this books provides a sweeping interpretive study of the history of the Canadian working class since 1800.
Abstract: Working Class Experience: Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991 is a study of the history of the Canadian working class since 1800. Divided into seven detailed chapters, "the book traces the class struggles, political realignments, and cultural formations that evolved in the midst of economic and social transformation" and "follows Canadian workers as they travelled common routes of resistance and accommodation." It is a thorough study beginning with the movement of workers, from land to factories and workplaces of Canada's industrial revolution. The book is a revised and updated edition of the author's earlier work, Working-Class Experience: The Rise and Reconstitution of Canadian Labour, 1800-1980. The new edition contains a chapter on the contemporary period, looks more closely at the use and abuse of law by the state, further analyses the role of gender in working-class relations and considers political and economic issues central to working-class well being.
Bryan D. Palmer is the author of numerous books and is a Professor of History at Queen's University. He is also the president of the Canadian Committee on Labour History and works closely with the journal Labour/Le Travail.
[Abstract by Nabeeha Chaudhary]
Table of Contents
Preface 1. Producing Classes, Paternalist Authority, 1800-1850 i) The Social Formation ii) Paternalism iii) Material Experiences: Divergent / Convergent iv) The Irish and Others: Some Quantities v) Apprenticeship vi) The Respectable vii) The Rough viii) Crime, Anti-Crime, and Class: The Law and the Producers ix) Rough Justice x) The Insurrectionary Moment xi) Gender, Class, and the Paternal Order xii) Producing Classes and Paternalist Authority - Accommodation and Resistance 2. Class Differentiation and Antagonism, 1850-1880 i) The Social Formation ii) An Insurrection of Labour iii) Unionism: Local and International iv) Associational Life v) Families vi) Tavern Life: The World of Joe Beef's Canteen vii) The Nine-Hour Pioneers viii) Law and Labour: Establishing Limits ix) The 1870s: Beginnings and an End 3. The Consolidation of Working-Class Opposition, 1880-1895 i) The Social Formation ii) Knights and Workmen iii) A Movement Culture iv) Brainworkers v) Women vi) Politics vii) Strikes viii) On the Margins of the Movement ix) The Close of a Century 4. The Remaking of the Working Class and Its Oppositions, 1895-1920 i) The Social Formation ii) Material Life iii) Internationalism iv) Workplace Confrontation v) The Politics of Dissent vi) Regionalism: Radicalism / Religion vii) Gendered Radicalism viii) The War for Democracy ix) General Strike x) State and Class: Law and the Industrial Order xi) Understanding Working-Class Oppositions and 1919 5. Dissolution and Reconstitution, 1920-1940 i) The Social Formation ii) Labour Defeated iii) Blood, Guts, and Culture on the Coal iv) Communism v) The Theatre of Mass Culture: The First Act vi) Women of the New Day vii) Working Against Not Working viii) Reformism ix) Industrial Unionism x) Agitprop / Profit xi) State Power in the Service of Class Interest xii) The Pre-World War Two Context: Labour on the Defensive 6. Class, Culture, and Movement, 1940-1975 i) The Social Formation ii) Militancy, Legitimation, and the Arrival of Industrial Legality iii) Unionism iv) Labour's Cold War v) Coming Together vi) The Rise and Fall of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation vii) Immigrants and Incomes viii) Class and Nation: Quebec ix) Youth, Popular Culture, and English-Canadian Nationalism x) Women: At Home and Away xi) The NDP: A Legacy of Class Ambivalence xii) Fordism and the Canadian Working Class, 1940-1975 7. Hard Times: Economic Downturn, the State, and Class Struggle, 1975-1991 i) The Social Formation ii) Cannibalizing the Clerks: Public-Sector Workers and State Attack iii) A Tale of Two Provinces: The Assault on the Public Sector in Quebec and British Columbia iv) A Tale of Two Bureaucracies: The Good Cop / Bad Cop Mythology of Trade Union Leadership v) Slow-cialisms in One Province: Labour and the New Democratic Party in Hard Times vi) Mass Culture: Spectacle and Hard Times vii) Stabbing Back / Back-Stabbing viii) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Working Class in a Time of Permanent Crisis Bibliography Index
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