LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Outport, Grand Banks Of Newfoundland, Liminality

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

Document Summary

Labour studies is the study of work in the industrial age. Globally we are more industrial than we ever been. Gold: lots of people start coming to the new world, the draw of the new world in the most basic way was these three. Gold was seen as the method in which to make riches. God:mercenaries aim was to convert a lot of the indigounous populations, the most common were christan missionaries. Glory: the new world of the scene of many many wars, between aborginals and. Europeans but also europeans vs europeans in north america. Staple defintion: (cid:498)business of extracting or acquiring resource commodities in order to sell them to an external market. (cid:499) world that"s what they were doing. Staple industries was about getting the industry to selling it somewhere else. The main market of activity was not where the materials were being extracted (i. e. mining, cotton,) these are all important staples.