PHGY 502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Identity Politics, Essentialism, Asbestos Strike
29 Jun 2018
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Seminar 8 – The Asbestos Strike and the Quiet Revolution Friday, March 2nd, 2018
- Provision of health vs. production of health
Doctor Shortage or how should doctors be paid for the work they do
Focus on different interpretation of this issue
Chapter 10/11: Sproule Jones (Challenge of Fisheries)
Short Paper what have you learned from the particular reading you
Presentation 1: The Asbestos of Strike
-Asbestos Strike: Began midnight Feb 13th, 1949 – miners walking off the mines in Asbestos
Quebec
-Social thought of the church in Quebec
-At the time Quebec social framework was ready to come apart
-Demographic shift – largely due to the industrial revolution
-Social through which arose around a source of nationalism = emphasis on French language,
Catholicism, idealism and the importance of rural life; importance of the catholic church while
opposing the overall influence of English-speaking, Protestantism, materialistic, commercial and
urbanization trends
This resistance in Quebec demonized urban working-class populations
-Political society viewed in terms of elites and leaders rather than political education of the masses
-Nationalist mentality posited by social thinkers of the time – related to nationalistic thinking and
resistance to change
-Importance of institutions – as a result of the predominance of the social thinking and ideas
discusses previously people in Quebec felt inadvertently “thrust” into the industrial era – a
situation that Quebec society’s doctrinaire thinkers were completely opposed to
Thus, institutions had to try and bridge the gap between theory and reality often had to
“take a stand on the side of pure theory or on the side of concrete reality”
-Throughout the first half of the 1900’s become increasingly clear that labour movement/trade
union movement and the working class in general had to develop their own doctrine that suited its
nature – relying on social doctrines of established institutions and ides of social thought would
not cut it
-Sign or potential catalyst to the Quiet revolution
-Individuals and groups in society to gain this new social collective conscious working-class
solidarity
-Working class consciousness – what does it mean to be working class; people fall more solidarity
within regions
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Document Summary
Doctor shortage or how should doctors be paid for the work they do. Short paper what have you learned from the particular reading you. Asbestos strike: began midnight feb 13th, 1949 miners walking off the mines in asbestos. At the time quebec social framework was ready to come apart. Demographic shift largely due to the industrial revolution. Social through which arose around a source of nationalism = emphasis on french language, Catholicism, idealism and the importance of rural life; importance of the catholic church while opposing the overall influence of english-speaking, protestantism, materialistic, commercial and urbanization trends. This resistance in quebec demonized urban working-class populations. Political society viewed in terms of elites and leaders rather than political education of the masses. Nationalist mentality posited by social thinkers of the time related to nationalistic thinking and resistance to change. Thus, institutions had to try and bridge the gap between theory and reality often had to.
