KINE 3430 Lecture Notes - Shift Work, Africville
30 Apr 2013
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Transformation of lower and upper canada, from rural economy (fur trading) to the building of factories (moving people into the cities for the workers of the factories). Change in values of the way people understood their time and place. By 1900"s 82% of canadian manufacturing took place in ontario and quebec. Industrial space - maintaining the old (homes) and brining in the new high rise buildings. Industrial time - you have a shift of work. Ex (8-5) you go to work and then go home. Before that people didn"t have shift work because they just worked the land at their homes. Toronto 1851 (30,775) and 1911(381,833)- people came in from europe (scotland, wales, france, italy) Capitalist society: people made money and spent it on homes and goods. Cities had a high degree of residential segregation . Few victorians believed in social equality though upward mobility was a dominant ideoplogy. Ongoing assumptions in canada that racial minorities have recently arrived.
