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 [0xc0004c1860 0xc0008a3bc0 0xc000d7eb10 0xc00182dd10 0xc001c1a6c0 0xc001ced500 0xc00203aa20 0xc0020cc210 0xc000167320 0xc0001a2600 0xc000110090 0xc00028b5c0 0xc0004be300 0xc0001992c0 0xc0001bf170 0xc000426d20 0xc00080f020 0xc000941230 0xc0002af9b0 0xc0002cdbc0 0xc0006f3c50 0xc00014f290 0xc0002c8420 0xc0003cf830 0xc00050e390 0xc000764630 0xc00083ae40 0xc000afef90 0xc0009b82d0 0xc000285590 0xc00033b380 0xc0003feab0 0xc0006748a0 0xc00068fda0 0xc000bc4b10 0xc000d10030 0xc00025d9e0 0xc0003becf0 0xc0007edb90 0xc000842bd0 0xc000930900 0xc000931890 0xc0009b6f30 0xc000b1f080 0xc000c8f9b0 0xc001569f80 0xc001aca870 0xc00208fcb0 0xc0009b5ad0 0xc000b5f260 0xc000ca9320 0xc000f72810 0xc0010b5b30 0xc0010e5bf0 0xc00168af00 0xc00168bbf0 0xc0018d1530 0xc001f1ddd0 0xc001fe9590 0xc0023771d0 0xc0024358c0 0xc00262c960 0xc002656b70 0xc00269f9e0 0xc0026de330 0xc00250d9b0 0xc0001b8660 0xc0002355f0 0xc00034a8a0 0xc0003a5b60 0xc00068d680 0xc000df0a50 0xc000ef5440 0xc001154d50 0xc0016e5200 0xc001a81aa0 0xc001c9de00 0xc0021de600 0xc002227830 0xc0023e2240] 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