Working Class Experience
Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991

Palmer, Bryan D.

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, Canada
Year First Published: {11231 Working Class Experience WORKING CLASS EXPERIENCE Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991 Palmer, Bryan D. McClelland & Stewart Toronto Canada 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. 1983 1992 455pp BC1760-WorkingClass.jpg B Book 0-7710-6945-6 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 CX18649 1 true true false CX18649.htm [0xc0006f3b60 0xc0009c8210 0xc000dfbc50 0xc00180fc50 0xc001bf4fc0 0xc001cde180 0xc00254f740 0xc00013dfb0 0xc0001ff3e0 0xc00022c720 0xc00015dbf0 0xc000382b40 0xc000534060 0xc0001fdef0 0xc000227da0 0xc000443c80 0xc000844810 0xc000228b10 0xc000437ad0 0xc00044bd40 0xc00093b3e0 0xc0001cb8f0 0xc000316c60 0xc0003b6210 0xc0004bf080 0xc0006bb620 0xc0007c7e90 0xc000be0720 0xc000172480 0xc0005eea80 0xc00067cba0 0xc000792630 0xc000a30d80 0xc000aa6390 0xc001459710 0xc00151cfc0 0xc0009b01b0 0xc000abb7a0 0xc0015c9140 0xc0015dc1e0 0xc001607f80 0xc001618f30 0xc00165ac90 0xc0016d6f00 0xc0017f5d70 0xc001a9eea0 0xc001ef42a0 0xc0007c2ab0 0xc00107d410 0xc0010f6de0 0xc0014794a0 0xc0015d6b40 0xc0018b7fb0 0xc0019a6090 0xc001ef3980 0xc001ff06c0 0xc0022e8480 0xc002519110 0xc0025478f0 0xc0001e0960 0xc0003b3290 0xc0008e21e0 0xc00099e4b0 0xc000a43440 0xc000adde90 0xc000dc8ab0 0xc000f8dcb0 0xc000fc2cf0 0xc0010020f0 0xc0010173e0 0xc001151200 0xc00188ef60 0xc001977d40 0xc00214a5d0 0xc0023393b0 0xc0026ac5d0 0xc002720a80 0xc00289daa0 0xc0028ded50 0xc00298d800] Cx}
Year Published: 1992
Pages: 455pp ISBN: 0-7710-6945-6
Resource Type: Book
Cx Number: CX18649

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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Working Class Experience
Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991