LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Blue-Collar Worker, Canadian Labour Congress, Labour Candidates And Parties In Canada
10 Dec 2015
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Workers and the second industrial union (cid:1) (cid:1) Workplaces look different after second revolution than they did before (cid:1) Involve assembly lines = mass production: corporate capitalism. New skylines, housing large number of workers. New wave of managerial and office staff. More and more peoples lives being affected by corporations are truly household names: new products, making things you did not make before, whole new wave of management thinking. Context: economic boom: 1900: economy takes off, liberals benefit off of this, in power just as economy booms, resources. Mining: mining starts giving a big benefit to the economy, benefit also because part of the country that was struggling, was where mining started to boom, which generated a lot of jobs. Grain: in the west, there is a massive grain movement, helps settle the west, 500,000 new homesteads established in first 10 years of boom: manufacturing export) Serving this new booming domestic economy (not for.
