LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: National Labor Relations Act, Intersectionality, Scale-Invariant Feature Transform

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

Document Summary

Sept. 18th 2017: first industrial revolution brings new things, political climate: Liberalism dominant ideology at the time, maintaining liberty and freedom for citizens which lead to prosperous and fair society. Sept. 25th 2017: semi-skilled workers craftsmen, unskilled workers general labour. Late 19th century uneven growth & long depression (1873-96) Laurier boom in power during 1900 economic surge. Last best west 500,000 new farms and population increase: resources timber, mining, manufacturing many domestic products consumed, second industrial revolution. European and chinese immigrants, hostility towards these immigrants from politicians, institutions, unions, immigrants were made to feel unwelcome; e. g. westdale charter, Vancouver riot against chinese immigrants: racialization race is made and is a social construct, not a biological term, social construction race is constructed within a society via media, politics, institutions. I(cid:373)pa(cid:272)t o(cid:374) wo(cid:396)ke(cid:396)s" li(cid:448)es (cid:862)head ta(cid:454)es(cid:863) (cid:449)e(cid:396)e put o(cid:374)to chi(cid:374)ese i(cid:373)(cid:373)ig(cid:396)a(cid:374)ts i(cid:374) the late (cid:1005)(cid:1012)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)s, ban was repealed in 1948; government discouraged african american immigrants: mainstream labour movement unions were anti-immigration.