HIST 124 Lecture Notes - Jean Talon, Labatt Brewing Company, Working Class Culture
1 Feb 2013
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Last call: booze and the regulation of leisure: the historical present: the drinking habits of history 124 students. Social reform came to be through mini-movements because new ideas created a sense of anxiety and uncertainty within citizens drinking was the cause of this. Drink in pre-industrial canada: rise of the breweries, functions of drink in pre-capitalist society. 1668 first brewery jean talon - montreal. 1786 molson family north americas oldest brewery canadas second oldest company links drinking of beer to canadian nationalism (i am canadian) - montreal. 1878 sir john a macdonald drunk temperance law. Campbell drunk speaking in the house with a hat on inside, demanding a fight. Working class culture: work payment in rum accepted grain traded at distillery for whiskey absence of cash (medium of capitalism) same or more exchange value as money. Taverns everywhere social centres economic and political centres rebellions and unions formed in most working class neighborhoods predominantly male spaces -
