MGMT 1030 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Winnipeg General Strike, Labour Candidates And Parties In Canada, Wage Labour

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

Document Summary

Management"s goal has been to harness wage labour to work effectively and efficiently in a business enterprise to maximize profits. This lecture traces the evolution of labour structures in response to changes in the organization of canadian businesses and legislation during the first, second, and third. Periodization: repressive era (to 1872, containment era (1872-1907) Growing radicalism; first labour dispute legislation: corporate paternalism (1907-1948) Radicalism; limited concessions; rise of industrial unionism: era of acceptance (1948-1976) Collective bargaining rights strengthen & extend labour"s power: era of restraint (1976-present) Trade union rights eroded by state coercion, corporate power. Growth of businesses by the mid-nineteenth century meant greater class differences between workers and owners/managers and growing worker resistance. Inadequate wages, harsh conditions trigger growing activism. Unskilled male wage not enough to live on. Paid and unpaid labour of wives and children essential to supplement male wage. Women earned half what men earned for the same work and children earned half of a woman"s wage.