HIST 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: William Lyon Mackenzie King, Moral Imperative, Deskilling
16 Oct 2018
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Industrial vs craft unions: social vision and moral crusade, knights of labour est. Assemblies : incorporating all people into unions, struggle collectively, org. to try to change poor living conditions of working people, blamed fiercely comp. labour market and unrestrained industrialization, ie. Idea of british poor laws but not structured the same: official and elite attitudes toward the poor were negative, work was not a solution to poverty, high mortality, disease/sickness, child birth, couldn"t survive on wages. Industrial labour: process of deskilling necessary in rise of indust. technology, creation of new industries unrelated to sorts of things done by craft workers, some new jobs related to urbanization. Sexual harassment from employers: wanted to protect daughters, moral imperative in mind for strikes, employers fought back hard, blacklisted big risk, first legislation to make unions legal, 1906 umwa strike prompted fed. Gov"t to pass labour leg: 1907: industrial disputes investigation act, direct response to the miner"s 9-month long strike, par.
