LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Liberal Conservatism, Toronto Police Service, Picketing
8 Dec 2011
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Separation between business interests and the world of work. One impact of industrialization when a business class emerges. Organizations start to push for businesses interests beyond particular subjects. The biggest subject of this time is investments in infrastructure ie. more railways/canals. Unions stuck up for the interest of craft workers. Unions primarily represented small groups of skilled trade workers. They protected workers against the changes happening in industrialization. They tried to keep a lot of this transformation happening from the status of skilled trades workers. Unions were conservative in some ways, trying to conserve the traditional and customary ways of doing things & keep it from changing into a new role. They are for the skilled workers, the workers that had some sort of leverage in the workplace. They wanted to keep out a lot of competition and preserve ideas and status they had. This is about the standards of living they had, stats in community they had.
