LABR 1290 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Living Wage, Industrial Revolution

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABR 1290
• Professor: Christopher P.Dooley

Document Summary

Trained through apprenticeship system a boy living with family for 3-10 years and then leaving journeyman, work frothier masters. Gave skilled workers a. tight control over trades and maintaining standards and managing supply - lasted 100 of years crafter workers sometimes called aristocracy of labour, respectability parades and pageants demonstrated thus respectability to wider public. Sick bene t societies that helped members through times of illness they paid for funerals, operated libraries sponsored lectures etc. A living wage and a living pro t . 3 craft workers to capitalists : workshop to factories.