SOCI 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Seal Hunting, Hibernia Oil Field, Erving Goffman
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Tie natural resources to discussions around wealth and poverty in canada. To better understand how natural resources have influenced the economic outcomes of newfoundlanders. Understand how cultural cues (e. g. jokes) are influenced by class/inequality. Abundant resources : cod, salmon and seals. 1800s: nfld = top producer of salt fish. Agricultural poor: europeans, caribbean nations, south america. Communities: egalitarian, less divison of labor, conflict. 1957 amendment to the unemployment insurance (ui) act : 1) self-employed fishers get ui benefits off season. Mid-1950s: 90% (415,000 pop) lived 3,000 small villages coastline. Under the resettlement program 143 communities (16,000 pop) moved. Federal government thought new industries would begin. New boats: bigger, company owned, more crew(12-18), fish long (10 plus days) Result: = more fish = more fish plant. Problems arose as a result of move/technologies: Results in the decimation of cod stocks. July 1992: feds close "northern cod" fishery fishers plant no work. Nfld: rugged terrain, high taxes, unskilled labor force.
