LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lower Canada

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

Document Summary

Labour studies lecture 2- settlers and wage labour. Lower canada: habitant: especially upper canada= pioneer society. And i. d. of new world: u. s. = frontier, canadian colonies, too (though not wild west) Every person who has good initiative, family, has a chance to make it to the new world. Independent producer for markets: grain, dairy, beef & poultry. Backbone of the community : reward for hard work, gender element (not having a boss was manly ) Clearing land: time to production, stumping. Sending away (sending away daughters, or sending away older sons to somewhere else so that they could work in a growing industry to make ends meet) Simple and isolated? (not isolated, doing things with other people and at other jobs) Strategy and hustle (where is the best place to work, what are the best opportunities for us) Impact on family (families are split up because of the need to work.