LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Industrial Unionism, Producerism, Consumerism

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABRST 1A03
• Professor: David Goutor

Document Summary

**next assignment is due march 13th (length is 4-6 pages) Realized that new ways of changes cant stick with the producer ideal, will be seen as losers in the new economy because of clinging onto the past. Consumerism allows to focus on wages, benefits, and job security. Gets members and reps. to go and make the union the way they want it to be (unionism, consumer issues) Base= numbers; all workers into the same industry (ex. steel industry) Mass unionism; much larger in terms of membership. Had large levels of solidarity (all going in together, and families lived in the same community) Especially in mining, lumber working, bunkhouse men (work in mining or lumbering) broad base sense of unity. Experience and role of immigrant workers pt. Heaviest period in canadian immigration (breaking records) Settlers; immigration is structured and brought in communal groups of women and children.