LABR 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Regina Manifesto, Social Gospel, Vanguardism
29 Dec 2016
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Early union struggles in canada lecture 3 notes- october 18, 2016. These questions are central to understanding the history and evolution of labour law in canada. Prior to and immediately after contact with europeans, work and economic activity in what would become canada was focused on indigenous subsistence labour. European settlers brought with them capitalist modes of production, which eventually dominated and displaced indigenous labour processes. Even so, the vast majority of the population lived and worked on the land, only moving into wage labour if needed. By the mid-nineteenth century, factory employment was still a relatively rare form of work. Work in factories was characterized by harsh conditions, rife with strikes and conflict. Despite these shared experiences, there was no (cid:498)working class(cid:499) Workers were divided along regional, occupational, and income lines, as well as on the basis of ethnicity and gender. Pre-industrial work, capitalism and the rise of craft unions.
