MGMT 1030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Wage Labour, Canadian Labour Congress, Labor Rights

• School: York University
• Department: Management
• Course: MGMT 1030
• Professor: Andrew Thomson

Document Summary

Repressive era (to 1872: business growth created great class differences between workers and owners; growing worker resistance, inadequate wages; harsh conditions trigger growing activism. Unskilled male wage not enough to live on; paid labour of women/children essential to supplement wage (women earned half of men, children half of women"s wage) Unstable work condition; seasonal layoff, violate business cycle. No provision for sickness, injury, or old age. Inspired by similar british labour successes, union went on strike (1872); strike broken but forced prime minister john a. macdonald to legalize unions. Trades union act (1872) legalized unions, but picketing penalties and pressure make union power limited: result of political motives tight federal election in 1872 and macdonald needed skilled workers" vote. 8 anarchists tried for murder and four put to death. Federal government responded with first disputes legislation favours employers in practice: industrial disputes investigation act (1907) result of public demand for government action at.