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 [0xc00065a600 0xc000954c30 0xc000e0efc0 0xc0010ef980 0xc0014d9dd0 0xc0015c32c0 0xc000be6b70 0xc0000edb00 0xc0001f13e0 0xc000230900 0xc0000f4420 0xc0003c8450 0xc00057edb0 0xc00011acc0 0xc000216cc0 0xc000429860 0xc0008772f0 0xc0000d3cb0 0xc000333560 0xc000381860 0xc0009affb0 0xc0000d0c90 0xc000256240 0xc00032b950 0xc00047ed50 0xc0006bd6b0 0xc000789f80 0xc000ca39b0 0xc0001fb170 0xc0007188a0 0xc0007c4d20 0xc00085cb10 0xc000c57ce0 0xc000cab320 0xc000bf1800 0xc001294f60 0xc00091d440 0xc000acaf90 0xc0013a50b0 0xc0013ca150 0xc001434210 0xc0014351a0 0xc0014b54d0 0xc00158d8c0 0xc0016e0de0 0xc001d56a50 0xc001fc6ab0 0xc0006c29f0 0xc0011de870 0xc0012d65d0 0xc001423590 0xc0015e9140 0xc0018989f0 0xc0018d8b40 0xc001e79320 0xc001e94120 0xc00205a840 0xc0025c1410 0xc002606cc0 0xc0026ac840 0xc000224ab0 0xc000700ae0 0xc000778e10 0xc000866090 0xc00091eb70 0xc000b2bbc0 0xc000ce3200 0xc000e583c0 0xc000efb8c0 0xc000f4ef60 0xc001297710 0xc00175bc80 0xc00182d0b0 0xc001fa6180 0xc0022af7a0 0xc0027c9440 0xc00283dd40 0xc0029d1f80 0xc002a13470 0xc0024bea80] 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