LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Classical Liberalism

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

Document Summary

Try to protect them from changes that industrialization is bringing them. Tend to be older white men; get the skill training, well established in the economy, conservative/background looking- want to preserve traditions about how trades worked. They fought for control over how the work was done. Leverage: skills that were needed for the work; tried to leverage for control. Wanted to set an example and lay down the idea in the long run that workers would not always do what the employers wanted; they should have a say in what work is done. Highly skilled and prestigious trade everyone needed shoes. At the forefront of the resistance; industrializes the quickest compete with large employers. As much as they tried, they got pushed aside. Agree if you joined to abide by a set of rules (why charter was such a big deal)