LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Craft Unionism, Industrial Unionism, Wage Labour

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

Document Summary

United states, northern france, parts of germany = early 1800s. Canada-1850"s and 1860s that industrialization first was introduced. Glory (military canada used to be driven by war. ) Staples: (dominate shaping force in early economies) (resource) Harold innis = classic definition (unfluencial in economics and history. ) Buisness of extracting or acquiring resource commodities in order to sell them to an eternal market. Canada has a lot of staples that are needed (oil) Main center of development is on the edge and sold to the metropolis. *people start to live by the ocean to fish everyday. *outports became some of the first settlements (towns) Grand banks around newfoundland has fish that fisherman extracted. The fish were so thick that the boats skidded on fish. Used to work in barrels because the weather conditions were. *leave people at the side of the ocean so they could get a jump over everyone else. *after salting and processing the cod, they are being dried.