HIST 124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Canadian Labour Congress, Nomic, Class Consciousness
13 Mar 2016
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Thinking about capitalism in canadian history difference between earning money and what you do (wage versus service) profit for employer, an economic system of selling labour and buying it: capitalism capitalism, much like whiteness, goes unnamed; ubiquitous. Effects: people, things and processes gets hidden, obscured, marginalized by capitalism"s ability to remain unnamed and unquestioned. Late19 c industrial capitalist development in canada examination of the canadian working class th. John a macdonald"s policy set the foundation for the capitalism; three prongs to the national policy: immigration, need people = workers. Iii. tariffs: introduced/raised tariff walls to promote the growth of canadian industry by keeping other (us) countries out of the economy his strategy was relatively successful. Ontario: by 1901, there was 160k workers. Toronto, epicentre of capitalist industrial settlement, raised worker population to over 2000 by 1891. The rural roots of capitalism: the productive household and the puttingout system th. Industrial revolution happened in late 19 c for canada.
