LABRST 1A03 Lecture : Labour Studies – Lecture Notes.docx

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABRST 1A03
• Professor: David Goutor

Document Summary

U. s, northern france, parts of germany = early 1800 s. Draw of new world (3 g s): gold, god glory. Development of staple industry (dominate shaping form of economy) Staple industry is a resource industry (ex. Business of extracting or acquiring resource commodities in order to sell them to an external market . Placeholding (european sailors stayed overseas in canada) overtime developed into nfld. Outports (focused out along the water, some of first settlements in. Isolation (no connections to society, life is on the water ) Largest interchange btwn peoples (btwn whites, aboriginals, etc) Mutual dependency: aboriginals: trapping, whites: trade goods. #1 staple in 19th century = timber industry. Best logging time is winter (dragging trees is easier) Small settlement: big cities do not develop around these industries. Canadian slave stats : 10-12 million, 80% of total migration 1500-1830 from across atlantic were slaves in the new world. New world: suppose to be land of the free.