LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Newfoundland And Labrador, Wage Labour, Lower Canada
19 Apr 2013
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Staples: extracting or acquiring resource commodities in order to sell them to an external market (don"t manufacture, only resource) Fish=grand banks (massive amounts of cod fish) Migratory fishery: rough work (always wet and cold, most jobs in boats, which required discipline. Residential fishery: starts with placeholding, develops in new foundland fishery. Ouports (fishing stations develop into settlings: structural disadvantages. Merchants once a year: distinct culture. Fur: truly unique trade (commerce between different peoples, commerce and interchange between peoples, mutual dependency. Whites: trade goods: great exchange to create relationships between buyers and sellers (uncivilized to do trade without a relationship, montreal based trade: Opposite than hudson bay, they go too aboriginals: network for trade is based on proximity to water routes, voyageurs experience: Huge demand for slave labour with big repercussions (in the usa: 80% were slaves who came to usa from 150-1830. Pre-industrial work (lecture 2: settlers and wage labour)
