HIST 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Canadian Nationalism, Continentalism, Pope Leo Xiii
8 Apr 2013
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Class is a vertical economic relationship and a horizontal socio-cultural relationship. In the vertical sense class, involves the explorative economic relationship between the owners of the means of production and workers. In the horizontal sense, class involves the beliefs, values, ideas, and traditions that people share and carry with them in their daily lives. The bourgeoisie are the people who control the means of production (upper class). The people who sell their labour but do not control the actual means of production are working class. Canada"s economy was always based on the staple goods like cod, furs, timbre, wheat, and minerals not an exploitive relationship. Industrial capitalism changed the relationship between owner and worker. Technology reduced the need for skills and thus depressed wages and immigration increased the pool of unskilled labourers even further. Working class life was difficult with poor sanitation, over-crowding, and an inadequate diet. Working-men joined voluntary associations like the orange order, st. patrick"s.
