LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Industrial Workers Of The World, Racialization, Syndicalism
10 Dec 2015
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Immigration & development: established that in order for a country to grow, immigrants play a role in 3 ways: immigrants needed to settle economy, Settle the labour force (more workers for industries) Provide markets for things being made (big companies need a big market, need immigration to expand consumer base: national policy. Late 19 th century: poor state, west of canada needing more workers to build infrastructure. Early 20 th century boom: start to see major expansion, most intense in canada"s history in immigration. Not a bad experience for most part. During this period most skilled immigrants able to make pretty good life, more than offered jobs coming into. Lot of these skilled immigrants able to make a transition into the canadian economy (able to work) Immigrants coming from more economically advanced countries (britain, germany, holland, eastern europe: unskilled. Jobs would last for one year or one season (harvest, timber)
