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. <br> <br>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. <br> <br>[Abstract by Nabeeha Chaudhary] <br> <br> <br> <br>Table of Contents <br> <br>Preface <br>1. Producing Classes, Paternalist Authority, 1800-1850 <br>i) The Social Formation <br>ii) Paternalism <br>iii) Material Experiences: Divergent / Convergent <br>iv) The Irish and Others: Some Quantities <br>v) Apprenticeship <br>vi) The Respectable <br>vii) The Rough <br>viii) Crime, Anti-Crime, and Class: The Law and the Producers <br>ix) Rough Justice <br>x) The Insurrectionary Moment <br>xi) Gender, Class, and the Paternal Order <br>xii) Producing Classes and Paternalist Authority - Accommodation and Resistance <br>2. Class Differentiation and Antagonism, 1850-1880 <br>i) The Social Formation <br>ii) An Insurrection of Labour <br>iii) Unionism: Local and International <br>iv) Associational Life <br>v) Families <br>vi) Tavern Life: The World of Joe Beef's Canteen <br>vii) The Nine-Hour Pioneers <br>viii) Law and Labour: Establishing Limits <br>ix) The 1870s: Beginnings and an End <br>3. The Consolidation of Working-Class Opposition, 1880-1895 <br>i) The Social Formation <br>ii) Knights and Workmen <br>iii) A Movement Culture <br>iv) Brainworkers <br>v) Women <br>vi) Politics <br>vii) Strikes <br>viii) On the Margins of the Movement <br>ix) The Close of a Century <br>4. The Remaking of the Working Class and Its Oppositions, 1895-1920 <br>i) The Social Formation <br>ii) Material Life <br>iii) Internationalism <br>iv) Workplace Confrontation <br>v) The Politics of Dissent <br>vi) Regionalism: Radicalism / Religion <br>vii) Gendered Radicalism <br>viii) The War for Democracy <br>ix) General Strike <br>x) State and Class: Law and the Industrial Order <br>xi) Understanding Working-Class Oppositions and 1919 <br>5. Dissolution and Reconstitution, 1920-1940 <br>i) The Social Formation <br>ii) Labour Defeated <br>iii) Blood, Guts, and Culture on the Coal <br>iv) Communism <br>v) The Theatre of Mass Culture: The First Act <br>vi) Women of the New Day <br>vii) Working Against Not Working <br>viii) Reformism <br>ix) Industrial Unionism <br>x) Agitprop / Profit <br>xi) State Power in the Service of Class Interest <br>xii) The Pre-World War Two Context: Labour on the Defensive <br>6. Class, Culture, and Movement, 1940-1975 <br>i) The Social Formation <br>ii) Militancy, Legitimation, and the Arrival of Industrial Legality <br>iii) Unionism <br>iv) Labour's Cold War <br>v) Coming Together <br>vi) The Rise and Fall of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation <br>vii) Immigrants and Incomes <br>viii) Class and Nation: Quebec <br>ix) Youth, Popular Culture, and English-Canadian Nationalism <br>x) Women: At Home and Away <br>xi) The NDP: A Legacy of Class Ambivalence <br>xii) Fordism and the Canadian Working Class, 1940-1975 <br>7. Hard Times: Economic Downturn, the State, and Class Struggle, 1975-1991 <br>i) The Social Formation <br>ii) Cannibalizing the Clerks: Public-Sector Workers and State Attack <br>iii) A Tale of Two Provinces: The Assault on the Public Sector in Quebec and British Columbia <br>iv) A Tale of Two Bureaucracies: The Good Cop / Bad Cop Mythology of Trade Union Leadership <br>v) Slow-cialisms in One Province: Labour and the New Democratic Party in Hard Times <br>vi) Mass Culture: Spectacle and Hard Times <br>vii) Stabbing Back / Back-Stabbing <br>viii) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Working Class in a Time of Permanent Crisis <br>Bibliography <br>Index CX18649 1 true true false CX18649.htm [0xc00017eb70 0xc0007f6c30 0xc000d58ff0 0xc00109fa10 0xc001489ef0 0xc001c6f3e0 0xc0023a8720 0xc0000a1710 0xc0001a7050 0xc0001d4570 0xc0000d06f0 0xc000293b60 0xc0004b4540 0xc000247020 0xc000279020 0xc000421bc0 0xc000679bc0 0xc0002640f0 0xc0004119b0 0xc000429cb0 0xc000908480 0xc000354120 0xc0004516e0 0xc00056ae70 0xc0006c62a0 0xc000aaec90 0xc000b2b560 0xc000e1f020 0xc00027f050 0xc0007b2ae0 0xc00086ef90 0xc000922db0 0xc000c29f80 0xc000c9b5c0 0xc000245890 0xc000369440 0xc0010b40f0 0xc001165c50 0xc001415da0 0xc00143ce40 0xc0014acf30 0xc0014adec0 0xc00196e210 0xc0019e8660 0xc001a93b60 0xc001c997d0 0xc0002bf920 0xc00109d920 0xc00197b980 0xc001a83710 0xc001b807b0 0xc001da2390 0xc0020a3c20 0xc0020e7d70 0xc001f410e0 0xc001f41ec0 0xc0024e5ce0 0xc0004277d0 0xc0004f10e0 0xc0006c3110 0xc000955e30 0xc000fc9ef0 0xc00104c240 0xc0010f34a0 0xc001161f80 0xc0012c2ff0 0xc00140c630 0xc00147f7d0 0xc00154ecf0 0xc001580390 0xc001a22b70 0xc0020131d0 0xc00209c630 0xc0026236e0 0xc002770d50 0xc0028aeb40 0xc00292d440 0xc002aed6e0 0xc002b89050 0xc002d0de00] 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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