LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Paternalism, Stelco, World War I
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New working world in factories: new roles, deskilling (repeat the same things again and again, alienation (disconnecting with the works, status & gender, new rules, new workers: unskilled workers, semi skilled machine ops. Results: shoemakers again, kealey article: number of trades that craft unions are successful, key variable = control of trade, skilled workers won"t replace by technology, handset type: no technology can replaced. Toronto printers" strike: 9 hours a day can be included in their agreement, become political (george brown, publisher of toronto globe, against the union, under control the strike: brown again, april 15 rally (biggest rally that the union organizes, many people and union come to join, brown thinks this is an illegal and challenge and said to the polices that the union leader should be arrested, the police do it, the union put into jail, repression. Varied experiences: skilled workers, unskilled, hardship & insecurity, levels of control, community support & ethnic niches.