LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Second Industrial Revolution, Bridal Shower, Long Depression
10 Feb 2019
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Frederick taylor: time-motion students: dividing work to improve the efficiency, progressivism: Laurier boom: resources, 2nd industrial revolution, power supply, assembly lines. Sci. management: time-motion studies, professional work, support work. Job ghettos: hard to get out of these jobs. Afl vs. mass unions: organizing surge, trades & labor congress. Industrial unionism: base=numbers, strength in numbers, mass production workplaces are huge. Iww was banned and did not get a chance to be that big but did make some influential changes. Immigration & development: national policy, formally started in 1887 by johnnie mcdonald, the pillars of this policy are trade aspect, railways, connecting the whole country together. Immigration, used to measure how the country was doing. For adjustment and getting information where to find good jobs: ethnic niches are a group of diverse people within the labor markets, asian immigration, 15-16,000 chinese workers, one chinese debt for every one mile in the railway.
