LABRST 1A03 Study Guide - Craft Unionism, One Big Union (Concept), Master Craftsman

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABRST 1A03
• Professor: Rita Cossa

Document Summary

Labour historians found that pioneer life was not so ideal and not so frequent. They particularly found that reaching that ideal was a lot harder than expected, start up costs were very high. Clearing land that you could just farm was very expensive. If it wasn"t clear than it wouldn"t be produced in living on. You need start up money for that stuff. Most people did not have the start up costs to purchase this land, resulting to people using wage labour. A lot of the families and different members of the family had to do different types of work, there was gender division. Women would take in different types of work such as domestic work; the men would juggle a wide range of jobs such as the timber jobs creating an extra income. Men would work very hard to the point of exhaustion, men often worked for the local merchant ex.