HIST 2360Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Corporate Welfare, Radicalization, Management System
5 Apr 2016
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On the saturday in winnipeg 1000s of strikers had come down to protest. Michael sokolowski (jewish) and steven skezerbanovicz (ukrainian) were killed by the rcmp: both were workers taking part in the strike. Winnipeg in 1919 relects the growing class conlict between workers and capital (elites) The incident provided the opportunity for the elites to enforce the way things were (capitalism), things would stay the same. Exacerbated regional tension, east and the west: radicalized west. Sparked a number of longer term movements which impacted the development of canada. Late 19th/ early 20th c labour in canada. Labour movement was an emerging movement, not powerful. Workers in the 19th century were primarily skill workers (arisans: toronto typographical union the skilled workers who worked in the newspaper industry. Faced challenges (reason why it wasn"t wide spread): technological advances. Most of the economy is oriented towards agricultural, the group of skilled labourers was very small.
